Archive for the ‘Screwed Up Schools’ Category

The Big Government Statist Solution

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Big Government Socialism is sold because it is “ free money”to a constituency that seems willing to be dependent on government and another constituency who gets rich from government. The Forgotten Taxpayer, the tax producer, has close to one third of what he or she earns by work or investment, ...

Compare Performance and Money: LMSD to RSD

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="245" caption="reading graph"][/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="280" caption="math graph"][/caption] Radnor School District  spends substantially less than Lower Merion School District and performs better. The Lower Merion School District Learning Curve Bends Down Lower Merion School District spends more per pupil than any school district in the State and yet results ...

Lehigh Valley Schools & Karen Beyer

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Lehigh Valley Student Learning Curve Bends Down. And what is happening in Lehigh County to school performance. More spending; less performance?  Take a look at this chart of Lehigh Valley Schools PSSA performance.  Allentown Morning Call reported this one time and then this gets lost and all the other noise of ...

East Penn SD: Learning Curve Bends Downward & Supertinendent’s Pay Bends Upward

Friday, January 1st, 2010

The Student Learning Curve bends down so why does Superintendent get a 1.5% pay increase. Is the purpose of schools to have students learn. School Boards spend more; students are not learning more.

LMSD: 2009 PSSA School Test Results

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Chart Reading"][/caption]   [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Chart Math"][/caption] This is money not well spent. The Lower Merion School District has spent more than a billion dollars in past ten years, more on nonproductive construction than productive instruction,  and the learning curve is bending downward. If you don’t think this ...