Of course, superintendents and administrators want more money ... duh.
Their ranks are the biggest recipients of the testing, testing, testing; data, data, data polices that are killing public education.
If there was ever a dumb headed PR move it is superintendents asking for more money.
In Colorado we have been under this 'accountability' policy for a generation -- Gov. Romer was one of the first in the nation to advocate for the agenda that resulted in 'No Child Left Behind' and 'Race to the Top'.
And where has this got us? Forty percent of high school graduates who go to college here have to take remedial reading, writing and arithmetic classes.
The testing, data collection, teacher evaluating, charter (outsourcing to private corporations) movement has been a resounding failure.
Parents and citizens are increasing understanding that the Page-Spellings-Duncan-Bush-Obama education 'reform' strategy doesn't work. One of the big reasons Amendment 66 (raise taxes for schools) was trounced in last year's election, was because left and right decided no more money going down a rat hole.
Now, it is too bad that the teachers' union here in Colorado has become so supine to the never-ending quest for more money that they do not take a leadership role in demanding an end to this so-called 'reform' movement. If teachers were really empowered to actually teach in the classroom, we might start to pull ourselves out of this pit.
But that is not going to happen.
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