Monday, February 27, 2012

Destroying Public Education in NC, One Small Desk at a Time

The lede to the Winston-Salem Journal article this a.m. pretty much sums up Republican plans for public education in North Carolina: sell off the system, let the devil take the hindmost:
A legislative proposal to overhaul North Carolina's pre-K system would completely privatize pre-K classrooms by the summer of 2013, as well as leave fewer families eligible for state tuition assistance.
Followed by this, "The World as the Republican General Assembly Wants It":
Taxpayer-supported pre-kindergarten has long had a waiting list of eligible children who don't get financial help because the state runs out of money before it runs out of families falling below annual income thresholds. That generates a waiting list, exacerbated this year by a 20 percent pre-K cut the Republican-controlled General Assembly approved to help balance the state budget.
How to decrease the waiting list, and in effect knock many thousands of children out of their pre-school desks? Make eligibility as difficult as possible.

You think the Republican leaders in this state aren't trying to cripple and ultimately eliminate public education?

3 comments:

  1. Henery11:26 AM

    Charlotte Observer editorial today condemns this plan: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/02/26/3045547/lawmakers-wrong-to-narrow-pre.html

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  2. Anonymous12:50 PM

    I wonder how Soucek feels about this since his youngest daughter got in Blowing Rock's pre-k program claiming a financial assistance need.

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  3. Wow Anon, can you verify that about the BR pre-k program letting in Soucek's child getting preference on financial need basis?

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