North Allegheny board decries law hiking pension contributions…
Charleroi Area $15.5M bond issue to pay for new football stadium…
North Allegheny board decries law hiking pension contributions…
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We need to stop all bond issues and cut the number of school districts. Why does every school district need a multi-million dollar football stadium. Compared to Eastern PA , Western PA has to many school districts. I will say that bigger districts are not better for all students, but we need to do something about all the duplicated services and buidlings. If you have two small geographic neighboring districts, why can't they share a football stadium.
I'd say that the last thing we need is massive new school districts with all of those incumbent problems.
Getting government out of education would be best. Eliminate the Federal and State Dept's of Ed. They produce nothing. Privatize the schools and let them compete for teachers and students. The best ideas will rise and the failed ideas will quickly fall off and go away.
Each school can determine what facilities to build and how many layers of administration is useful for themselves without imposting the costs of everyone.
How about no school districts? Eliminate public schools and their associated property taxes and the market will create a million new private schools of every size with a thousands of options to give children an optimal learning environment based on their needs. Right now we have a wasteful factory system resembling a prison more than a school that is designed to accommodate the desires of the teachers, not the needs of parents or children.
I am thankful for such clear thinking but regret that I could only give you one thumbs up.
Why not cut benefits for new employees? If the systems fails why do taxpayers have to keep awarding riculous benefits on their dime. Two part solution – new hires new plan then the current problem. The whole issue will never get resolved all at once – so split up the solution.
Ray,
Is Jason running in the 33rd again. Where does he stand on mergers, the pension crisis, and PSEA?
They impose cost on everyone. Lets be honest. Around 350 school districts in this state rely on state income tax and sales tax revenue collected in the other 150 districts. Most of the 350 are small school districts in western Pennsylvania that basically rape the suburban Pittsburgh and suburban SEPA districts for revenue. One way to start cutting costs would be to eliminate these shrinking districts. Many districts around Pittsburgh have half the students they had 50 years ago.
Another way to cut cost would be to impose pay to play on all districts receiving state funds. If a district wants their state funds, they must implement pay to play.
Would you require parents to send their kids to a school? I would argue if there was not such a measure, the state would be promoting child abuse. Parents do not have an absolute right to make stupid decisions over their children.
The way to solve the problem is to make the taxpayers pay the benefits they promised in contractual agreements. The taxpayers are the idiots who continuously elect officials who carry out idiotic acts.
Jason is the rep for PA 4, not 33, and yes, he is running again.
I do not know his stands for sure, but with him being a dem, he likely favors anything that benefits the unions.
Oh, the state mandate to force kids into failing public schools has surely benefited the kids, hasn't it.
Have people without forced public education, diplomas, or a college degree ever succeeded on their own or is it only possible through the government?
I would say that forcing kids to attend some public schools is child abuse.
For all of your talk about hating the nanny state, you sure advocate a lot of it.
Oh yeah, our elected reps always heed the pleas of the voter, don't they? And when the voters take to the streets and townhalls and demand action, our reps just hop to, don't they.
Ryan, I have to assume that you are a taxpayer because you certainly fulfill the idiot criteria.
The two issues can be separated very easily. The township can require you to cut your grass or remove snow from the your sidewalk without mandating how you take care of these things. You can do them yourself, pay the neighbor's kid, or hire a private company. The individual gets to choose from competing services to fulfill the need rather than have government not only mandate the need, but mandate how it will be filled, and force you to pay for it even if you are not using any or all of ther service.
I personally am opposed to any such mechanism that would force parents to send their kids to school, because it will undoubtedly be filled with hysterics like you who would eventually use it to outlaw any schools with any beliefs they want to ridicule as "stupid" or wrong since they are different from their own. Any such board would undoubtedly be plagued with people with nothing better to do than declare any teaching methods or subjects they disagree with as the equivalent of "child abuse" in order to force their own beliefs on other people's children. If parents don't have an absolute right to decide how to educate their children, then neither should anyone else.
Interetsing…(Sorry more mental than talkative this morning haha)