John Hoeven And The Teacher Union Sitting In A Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G

• March 24, 2009

The NDEA, North Dakota’s chapter of the national teacher’s union, is running ads on the internet leading to this website giving Governor John Hoeven a big, wet, sloppy kiss for HB1400 which would appropriate another $268 million to education in the state (70% of it going to teacher pay per the NDEA) over the next two budgeting periods (fiscal note on the bill here).
When you couple that with the $300 million in tax relief spending (yes, I said tax relief spending) the Governor is also trying to get through the legislature we come up with well over half a billion dollars in education funding passed this legislation alone. That’s $568 million total. Or roughly five times what the AIG executives got in bonuses.
And all of that spending is coming at a time when school enrollment trends look like this:

Over half a billion in new school funding to educate tens of thousands of fewer students. Something is very, very wrong with that picture. But no wonder the NDEA loves the Governor.
Now, you could argue that not all of the $300 million in tax relief spending (I said it again) is new school spending. Only $100 million goes directly to the school districts. The other $200 million is a property tax buy down which gives the money to the localities in exchange for decreased school spending and (the Governor tells us) decreased property taxes. The reality is that there’s no guarantees that localities won’t offset reductions in school spending bought down by that $200 million with increased spending on, say, park districts. Or other things the local property tax funds. Meaning there is no guarantee that $200 million will actually reduce local spending and thus local property taxes.
But even if you take it out of the $568 million funding figure I quote above, you’re still left with $368 million in new school funding. Again, to educate tens of thousands fewer students.
That’s indefensible.

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You’ll have to forgive me, I am a product of public schools, so my reading comprehension might not be what it should be…but if your thesis sentence contains this statement:

HB1400 which would appropriate another $268 million to education in the state

How can you possibly lead to the conclusion of:

But even if you take it out of the $568 million funding figure I quote above, you’re still left with $368 million in new school funding.
http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

Hoeven made a Faustian bargain with the teacher goonions and their out-of-state bosses to get elected in the first place.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

Dammit Buzz.

Will you turn off your webcam fer Chrissakes?
Buzz

At least someone who posts here has the satisfaction of supporting multiple families.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

How is it that, after all the years between Brown v. Board of Education and today, that Reading, Writing and Arithmetic became so expensive and so difficult to achieve?

Race was just a canard.

Seizure of the traditional local and state control over education was the goal*, and it was done by way of the US Court system and enforced at the point of National Guard bayonets.

Standards which have dumbed down the children, filled their impressionable minds with socialist misinformation, made them forget the Constitution, banished moments of silent and invocations before the game from school grounds, but have force-fed Timmy Has Two Daddies and Ritalin on the coming generations.

Instead of throwing more good money after bad, the time is ripe for school vouchers. Home schooling, private schools, magnet schools or charter schools.

Let our children — and tax dollars go.

* The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), that was signed into effect in 2002 by President Bush, has changed the way that education is approached forever. This Act aimed to make sweeping changes in the educational system by trying to “legalize the federal takeover of public education and achieve the goals to institute national standards”
Hannitized

Rob wants everyone to be like him…..a person paid a salary for a job he ignores in order to blog.

Now THAT is hard work if I ever saw it.
jimmypop

as we have all said here before… this money is put in to operations, not one time expenses…. what happens when the money stops?

he is running for conrad/ dorgan already….. and hes going to lose.
robert108

Over half a billion in new school funding to educate tens of thousands of fewer students. Something is very, very wrong with that picture.

The truth is that the govt schools are administration topheavy, which is standard for socialist enterprises, so the bulk of the money won’t go to education, it will go to bureaucracy.
This simple truth is why there is so much taxpayer resistance to being fleeced for more money for the failing govt schools.
The public wants to see results before we give them any more money, and they are actually getting progressively worse results with the children.
Buzz

Now he hates teachers…is there anyone who makes between minimum wage and millions that IS worthy?
Hannitized

Over half a billion in new school funding to educate tens of thousands of fewer students. Something is very, very wrong with that picture.

I suppose you could look at it that way, if you didn’t know schools had too many students and teachers were underpaid from the start.’

Yeah, having better paid teachers who can spend time with our students, ensuring learning is improved is bad…..if you hate America.
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You’ll have to forgive me, I am a product of public schools, so my reading comprehension might not be what it should be…but if your thesis sentence contains this statement:

SB 2199 has $300 million in education spending, in addition to the $200+ million in HB1400.

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