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Why Defenders Of Public Education Should Not Sign Jerry Brown/CFT Tax Compromise Initiativ
Here are some facts about the Jerry Brown/CFT Tax Compromise Initiative. Read it yourself to find out that this will benefit charters and further deregulation and privatization of education
REASON NOT TO SIGN JERRY BROWN’S TAX INIATIVE PETITION
ü THIS IS A PUSH FOR DE-REGULATION OF PUBLIC FUNDS AND IT WILL FURTHER PRIVATIZE PUBLIC EDUCATION
ü CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE SEPCIFICALLY ENUMERATED IN THE TEXT AND YET NOT ONCE IS TRADITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS MENTIONED EVEN THOUGH OVER 93% OF THE K-12 STUDENT POPULATION ATTENDS TRADTIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
ü IT GIVES CHARTER SCHOOLS “SOLE” DISCRETION ON HOW THEY CAN SPEND THE MONEY THEY RECEIVE- ZERO OVERSIGHT- ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY- CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE SUPPOSE TO REPORT THE MONEY THEY RECEIVE AND HOW THE MONEY WAS SPENT- A FOX GUARDING THE HEN HOUSE SITUATION
ü THIS IS A UNION BUSTING TACTIC DISGUISED AS A FUNDING MECHANISM FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION- UNIONS NOW HAVE A VOICE WITH LEGISLATORS WHO MAKE OUR LAWS, IF ALL FUNDS ARE CONTROLLED BY LOCAL CHARTER SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARDS, MANY OF WHOM ARE BACKED BY EDVOICE, HOW WILL THE UNIONS HAVE A SAY IN NEGOITIATING WORKING CONDITIONS AND BENEFITS???- CHARTERS CAN AND DO SAY –“NO UNIONS”!!
ü ALTHOUGHT THE SALES AND INCOME TAX INCREASES HAVE AN EXPIRATION DATE- LOCAL CONTROL OF STATE FUNDS HAVE NO EXPIRATION DATE. WHY? TO PUSH PIRVATIZATION UNDER THE GUISE OF “THE ONLY” PLAN TO FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION!!
ü WHY IS CHARTER SCHOOLS MENTIONED AND YET TRADIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE NOT MENTIONED? AGAIN- A PUSH TO DE-REGULATE AND PRIVATIZE WHICH WILL LEAD TO FURTHER CORRUPTION, NOT LESS!!
ü WHY ARE AUDITS DISCRETIONARY AND NOT MANDATORY? AGAIN- THE REAL REASON SURFACES THAT THIS IS TO DE-REGULATE!!
ü WITH OVER 1000 SCHOOL DISRICTS IN THE SATTE OF CALIFORNIA ALL DECIDING ON HOW TO SPEND THEIR FUNDS- WILL THIS BE A MORE EQUITABLE SYSTEM- NO!!
ü WHAT TRIGGERS THE CONTROLELR TO CONDUCT AN AUDIT- THE TEXT DOES NOT SPEAK TO THIS- WHY? – THIS IS AGAIN A PUSH TO DE-REGULATE!! TO PRIVATIZE!!
ü WHY IS IT DISCREIONARY FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE TO SEEK CIVIL OR CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR MISUSE OF FUNDS? AGAIN THIS IS NOT TO DETER MISUSE AND WILL IN FACT CREATE A WORSE SITUATION THAN WHAT EXISTS TODAY IN TERMS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
ü WHY IS THE CONTROLLER CONDUCTING THE AUDIT AS OPPOSE TO THE BURAE OF STATE AUDITS?
ü THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A SCAM WHICH DOES NOT FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION- INCOME AND SALES TAX INCREASES EXPIRES, 7 AND 4 YEARS AFTER EFFECTIVE DATE RESPECTIVELY, BUT THE SHIFT TO LOCAL CONTROL IS PERMANENT AND WILL BE DIASTEROUS FOR ALL!!!
ü THE ONLY PLAN THAT NO ONE WANTS TO DISCUSS IS TO STOP SHIFTING PUBLIC FUNDS AWAY FROM TRUE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND INTO THE HANDS OF THE PROFITEERS- THE EDUCATION COMPANIES, EDUCATION CONSULTANTS, NON-PROFIT LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES, FOR PROFIT COLLEGES, LOBBY FIRMS AND THE LIKE!! IF WE SHIFT FUNDS BACK TO TRADITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS (PRE-K-12), CSU , COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND THE UC SYSTEM, THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL THERE BE A QUALITY, ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA!
ü ADDITIONALLY UNLESS AND UNTILL ALL FINANCIAL CONFLICTS ARE EXPOSED AND PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT, WILL THERE EVER BE A MUCH NEEDED CLEANSING OF OUR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
United Public Workers For Action http://www.upwa.info
ü THIS IS A PUSH FOR DE-REGULATION OF PUBLIC FUNDS AND IT WILL FURTHER PRIVATIZE PUBLIC EDUCATION
ü CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE SEPCIFICALLY ENUMERATED IN THE TEXT AND YET NOT ONCE IS TRADITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS MENTIONED EVEN THOUGH OVER 93% OF THE K-12 STUDENT POPULATION ATTENDS TRADTIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
ü IT GIVES CHARTER SCHOOLS “SOLE” DISCRETION ON HOW THEY CAN SPEND THE MONEY THEY RECEIVE- ZERO OVERSIGHT- ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY- CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE SUPPOSE TO REPORT THE MONEY THEY RECEIVE AND HOW THE MONEY WAS SPENT- A FOX GUARDING THE HEN HOUSE SITUATION
ü THIS IS A UNION BUSTING TACTIC DISGUISED AS A FUNDING MECHANISM FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION- UNIONS NOW HAVE A VOICE WITH LEGISLATORS WHO MAKE OUR LAWS, IF ALL FUNDS ARE CONTROLLED BY LOCAL CHARTER SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARDS, MANY OF WHOM ARE BACKED BY EDVOICE, HOW WILL THE UNIONS HAVE A SAY IN NEGOITIATING WORKING CONDITIONS AND BENEFITS???- CHARTERS CAN AND DO SAY –“NO UNIONS”!!
ü ALTHOUGHT THE SALES AND INCOME TAX INCREASES HAVE AN EXPIRATION DATE- LOCAL CONTROL OF STATE FUNDS HAVE NO EXPIRATION DATE. WHY? TO PUSH PIRVATIZATION UNDER THE GUISE OF “THE ONLY” PLAN TO FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION!!
ü WHY IS CHARTER SCHOOLS MENTIONED AND YET TRADIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE NOT MENTIONED? AGAIN- A PUSH TO DE-REGULATE AND PRIVATIZE WHICH WILL LEAD TO FURTHER CORRUPTION, NOT LESS!!
ü WHY ARE AUDITS DISCRETIONARY AND NOT MANDATORY? AGAIN- THE REAL REASON SURFACES THAT THIS IS TO DE-REGULATE!!
ü WITH OVER 1000 SCHOOL DISRICTS IN THE SATTE OF CALIFORNIA ALL DECIDING ON HOW TO SPEND THEIR FUNDS- WILL THIS BE A MORE EQUITABLE SYSTEM- NO!!
ü WHAT TRIGGERS THE CONTROLELR TO CONDUCT AN AUDIT- THE TEXT DOES NOT SPEAK TO THIS- WHY? – THIS IS AGAIN A PUSH TO DE-REGULATE!! TO PRIVATIZE!!
ü WHY IS IT DISCREIONARY FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE TO SEEK CIVIL OR CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR MISUSE OF FUNDS? AGAIN THIS IS NOT TO DETER MISUSE AND WILL IN FACT CREATE A WORSE SITUATION THAN WHAT EXISTS TODAY IN TERMS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
ü WHY IS THE CONTROLLER CONDUCTING THE AUDIT AS OPPOSE TO THE BURAE OF STATE AUDITS?
ü THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A SCAM WHICH DOES NOT FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION- INCOME AND SALES TAX INCREASES EXPIRES, 7 AND 4 YEARS AFTER EFFECTIVE DATE RESPECTIVELY, BUT THE SHIFT TO LOCAL CONTROL IS PERMANENT AND WILL BE DIASTEROUS FOR ALL!!!
ü THE ONLY PLAN THAT NO ONE WANTS TO DISCUSS IS TO STOP SHIFTING PUBLIC FUNDS AWAY FROM TRUE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND INTO THE HANDS OF THE PROFITEERS- THE EDUCATION COMPANIES, EDUCATION CONSULTANTS, NON-PROFIT LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES, FOR PROFIT COLLEGES, LOBBY FIRMS AND THE LIKE!! IF WE SHIFT FUNDS BACK TO TRADITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS (PRE-K-12), CSU , COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND THE UC SYSTEM, THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL THERE BE A QUALITY, ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA!
ü ADDITIONALLY UNLESS AND UNTILL ALL FINANCIAL CONFLICTS ARE EXPOSED AND PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT, WILL THERE EVER BE A MUCH NEEDED CLEANSING OF OUR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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A proud Democrat and a proud member of the ruling capitalist class, Jerry Brown has always been supported by the labor unions. WHAT AN OUTRAGE! CHANGE YOUR PARTY TO THE TWO PARTIES THAT OPPOSE CHARTER SCHOOLS AND SUPPORT LABOR AND FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL PAID FOR WITH THE PROGRESSIVE INCOME TAX FROM PRESCHOOL THROUGH UNIVERISTY and which need you badly to stay on the ballot:
1. Peace and Freedom Party
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
From: http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/about-us/platform/full-platform
Education
Education is critical to individual survival and civilized human values, but U.S. capitalism is dismantling public education. Inadequate and unequal funding of schools perpetuates racism, crime and inequality. We demand: Integrated, democratically-run schools with up-to-date plant and equipment and smaller classes.
Teach the history of workers' struggles and labor's creation of society's wealth and progress.
Multi-lingual and multi-cultural education at all levels.
A federal law requiring and funding equal average per-pupil expenditures by every public school district, with extra funds for students with special needs such as disability or economic deprivation.
Tuition-free higher education available to all.
Restore cutbacks in public education and public library services.
No school voucher schemes.
2. Green Party
http://www.cagreens.org/
http://www.gp.org/index.php
From: http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/2010/social-justice.php#1004066
E. Education and the Arts
The failing report card of American education is troubling for almost every American. Who fails to see the connection between our investment in education and our success as a people? Who believes there is no relation between personal achievement and a qualified education--an education that teaches creative and critical thinking skills and a respect for lifelong learning?
Access to quality education for all Americans is the difference that will lead to a strong and diverse community. Fundamental changes in our priorities are needed at the national and local levels, within the public and private sectors, in the classroom, and at home to make education our first priority.
1. Education:
The Green Party supports equal access to high-quality education, and sharp increases in financial aid for college students.
A great challenge facing the people of the United States is to educate ourselves to build a just, sustainable, humane and democratic future, and to become responsible and effective citizens of the local and global communities we share. Greens believe every child deserves a public education that fosters critical and holistic thought, and provides the breadth and depth of learning necessary to become an active citizen and a constructive member of our society. We do not believe our public school system, as it presently operates, helps us reach that goal.
The Green Party is strongly opposed to the dissolution of public schools and the privatization of education. We believe that the best educational experience is guaranteed by the democratic empowerment of organized students, their parents and communities along with organized teachers.
We must stop disinvestment in education and instead put it at the top of our social and economic agenda. Effective schools have sufficient resources. Too many of our teachers are overworked, underpaid, and starved of key materials. We also must be more generous to our schools so that our children will learn what generosity is, and know enough to be able to be generous to us in return.
Greens believe in education, not indoctrination. We do not think that schools should turn our children into servile students, employees, consumers or citizens. We believe it is very important to teach our children how to ask good questions.
Unfortunately, we often expect too little from our students, teachers and schools. We must teach our children and teenagers to be leaders, and challenge them with great works of literature, economics, philosophy, history, music, and the arts.
A quarter century of generous corporate funding from the likes of the Bradley and Wal-Mart Family Foundations and a decade of No Child Left Behind have given birth to a vast, well-endowed and lucrative sector which seeks to dismantle, privatize, or militarize public education, and destroy teachers unions. Regimes of high stakes testing and the wholesale diversion of resources away from public schools are provoking crises for which the bipartisan corporate consensus recommends Chicago-style school closings or the Katrina-style dissolution of entire school districts and their replacement by selective, unaccountable and often highly profitable charter schools. The Green Party is unalterably opposed to the dissolution of public schools and the privatization of education. We believe that the best educational experience is guaranteed by the democratic empowerment of organized students, their parents and communities along with organized teachers.
The Green Party views learning as a lifelong and life-affirming process to which all people should have access. We cannot state more forcefully our belief that in learning, and openness to learning, we find the foundation of our Platform.
We recommend the following actions:
Eliminate gross inequalities in school funding. Federal policy on education should act principally to provide equal access to a quality education.
Provide free college tuition to all qualified students at public universities and vocational schools.
Oppose the administration of public schools by private, for-profit entities.
Increase funding for after-school and daycare programs.
Promote a diverse set of educational opportunities, including bi-lingual education, continuing education, job retraining, distance learning, mentoring and apprenticeship programs.
Give K-12 classroom teachers professional status and salaries commensurate with advanced education, training and responsibility.
Teach non-violent conflict resolution and humane education at all levels of education.
Prohibit advertising to children in schools. Corporations should not be allowed to use the schools as vehicles for commercial advertising or corporate propaganda.
i. Provide healthy school meals that are rich in vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber, and offer plant-based vegetarian options. Support Farm-to-School programs that provide food from local family farms and educational opportunities.
Ban the sale of soda pop and junk food in schools. Junk food is defined as food or beverages that are relatively high in saturated or trans fat, added sugars or salt, and relatively low in vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber.
Oppose military and corporate control over the priorities and topics of university academic research.
Expand opportunities for universal higher education and life-long learning.
Make student loans available to all college students, with forgiveness for graduates who choose public service occupations.
Repeal the No Child Left Behind Act
Include a vigorous and engrossing civics curriculum in later elementary and secondary schools, to teach students to be active citizens.
Encourage parental responsibility by supporting parenting and increasing opportunities for parents to be as involved as possible in their childrens' education. Values start with parents. Teaching human sexuality is a parental and school responsibility.
Expand arts education and physical education opportunities at school.
Recognize the viable alternative of home-based education.
Oppose efforts to restrict the teaching of scientific information and the portrayal of religious belief as fact.
Provide adequate academic and vocational education and training to prisoners.
We urge that our nation amend its 'binding declaration' with respect to the "Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict" to join the rest of the world in setting 18 as the absolute minimum age for military recruitment.
No person should be permitted to sign away eight (8) years of their life to the armed forces, without full written disclosure of what is expected of them and what they can expect in return from the government. We demand that the practice of deceiving prospective service recruits about the truth of their service contract be recognized as a fraudulent practice and sufficient grounds for revoking an enlistment contract. Current practices holding individuals legally to all the terms of their military service contract should also apply to the government.
We demand an end to the militarization of our schools. JROTC programs are an expensive drain on our limited educational resources and a diversion from their important mission to prepare our young to assume their role in a peaceful tomorrow. ASVAB testing is being used to mine public school student bodies for data to support military recruiting. Forbid military access to student records. The Pentagon's Recruitment Command is misdirecting public tax dollars on manipulative campaigns that prey on our young. We insist that local education authorities stand up to these destructive practices.
1. Peace and Freedom Party
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
From: http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/about-us/platform/full-platform
Education
Education is critical to individual survival and civilized human values, but U.S. capitalism is dismantling public education. Inadequate and unequal funding of schools perpetuates racism, crime and inequality. We demand: Integrated, democratically-run schools with up-to-date plant and equipment and smaller classes.
Teach the history of workers' struggles and labor's creation of society's wealth and progress.
Multi-lingual and multi-cultural education at all levels.
A federal law requiring and funding equal average per-pupil expenditures by every public school district, with extra funds for students with special needs such as disability or economic deprivation.
Tuition-free higher education available to all.
Restore cutbacks in public education and public library services.
No school voucher schemes.
2. Green Party
http://www.cagreens.org/
http://www.gp.org/index.php
From: http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/2010/social-justice.php#1004066
E. Education and the Arts
The failing report card of American education is troubling for almost every American. Who fails to see the connection between our investment in education and our success as a people? Who believes there is no relation between personal achievement and a qualified education--an education that teaches creative and critical thinking skills and a respect for lifelong learning?
Access to quality education for all Americans is the difference that will lead to a strong and diverse community. Fundamental changes in our priorities are needed at the national and local levels, within the public and private sectors, in the classroom, and at home to make education our first priority.
1. Education:
The Green Party supports equal access to high-quality education, and sharp increases in financial aid for college students.
A great challenge facing the people of the United States is to educate ourselves to build a just, sustainable, humane and democratic future, and to become responsible and effective citizens of the local and global communities we share. Greens believe every child deserves a public education that fosters critical and holistic thought, and provides the breadth and depth of learning necessary to become an active citizen and a constructive member of our society. We do not believe our public school system, as it presently operates, helps us reach that goal.
The Green Party is strongly opposed to the dissolution of public schools and the privatization of education. We believe that the best educational experience is guaranteed by the democratic empowerment of organized students, their parents and communities along with organized teachers.
We must stop disinvestment in education and instead put it at the top of our social and economic agenda. Effective schools have sufficient resources. Too many of our teachers are overworked, underpaid, and starved of key materials. We also must be more generous to our schools so that our children will learn what generosity is, and know enough to be able to be generous to us in return.
Greens believe in education, not indoctrination. We do not think that schools should turn our children into servile students, employees, consumers or citizens. We believe it is very important to teach our children how to ask good questions.
Unfortunately, we often expect too little from our students, teachers and schools. We must teach our children and teenagers to be leaders, and challenge them with great works of literature, economics, philosophy, history, music, and the arts.
A quarter century of generous corporate funding from the likes of the Bradley and Wal-Mart Family Foundations and a decade of No Child Left Behind have given birth to a vast, well-endowed and lucrative sector which seeks to dismantle, privatize, or militarize public education, and destroy teachers unions. Regimes of high stakes testing and the wholesale diversion of resources away from public schools are provoking crises for which the bipartisan corporate consensus recommends Chicago-style school closings or the Katrina-style dissolution of entire school districts and their replacement by selective, unaccountable and often highly profitable charter schools. The Green Party is unalterably opposed to the dissolution of public schools and the privatization of education. We believe that the best educational experience is guaranteed by the democratic empowerment of organized students, their parents and communities along with organized teachers.
The Green Party views learning as a lifelong and life-affirming process to which all people should have access. We cannot state more forcefully our belief that in learning, and openness to learning, we find the foundation of our Platform.
We recommend the following actions:
Eliminate gross inequalities in school funding. Federal policy on education should act principally to provide equal access to a quality education.
Provide free college tuition to all qualified students at public universities and vocational schools.
Oppose the administration of public schools by private, for-profit entities.
Increase funding for after-school and daycare programs.
Promote a diverse set of educational opportunities, including bi-lingual education, continuing education, job retraining, distance learning, mentoring and apprenticeship programs.
Give K-12 classroom teachers professional status and salaries commensurate with advanced education, training and responsibility.
Teach non-violent conflict resolution and humane education at all levels of education.
Prohibit advertising to children in schools. Corporations should not be allowed to use the schools as vehicles for commercial advertising or corporate propaganda.
i. Provide healthy school meals that are rich in vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber, and offer plant-based vegetarian options. Support Farm-to-School programs that provide food from local family farms and educational opportunities.
Ban the sale of soda pop and junk food in schools. Junk food is defined as food or beverages that are relatively high in saturated or trans fat, added sugars or salt, and relatively low in vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber.
Oppose military and corporate control over the priorities and topics of university academic research.
Expand opportunities for universal higher education and life-long learning.
Make student loans available to all college students, with forgiveness for graduates who choose public service occupations.
Repeal the No Child Left Behind Act
Include a vigorous and engrossing civics curriculum in later elementary and secondary schools, to teach students to be active citizens.
Encourage parental responsibility by supporting parenting and increasing opportunities for parents to be as involved as possible in their childrens' education. Values start with parents. Teaching human sexuality is a parental and school responsibility.
Expand arts education and physical education opportunities at school.
Recognize the viable alternative of home-based education.
Oppose efforts to restrict the teaching of scientific information and the portrayal of religious belief as fact.
Provide adequate academic and vocational education and training to prisoners.
We urge that our nation amend its 'binding declaration' with respect to the "Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict" to join the rest of the world in setting 18 as the absolute minimum age for military recruitment.
No person should be permitted to sign away eight (8) years of their life to the armed forces, without full written disclosure of what is expected of them and what they can expect in return from the government. We demand that the practice of deceiving prospective service recruits about the truth of their service contract be recognized as a fraudulent practice and sufficient grounds for revoking an enlistment contract. Current practices holding individuals legally to all the terms of their military service contract should also apply to the government.
We demand an end to the militarization of our schools. JROTC programs are an expensive drain on our limited educational resources and a diversion from their important mission to prepare our young to assume their role in a peaceful tomorrow. ASVAB testing is being used to mine public school student bodies for data to support military recruiting. Forbid military access to student records. The Pentagon's Recruitment Command is misdirecting public tax dollars on manipulative campaigns that prey on our young. We insist that local education authorities stand up to these destructive practices.
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