It's a Wrap!
The Utah Legislature will finish up their session for the year tonight
(yeah!). Another year of struggling to fund everything and decide
where the money is to be spent. Even though our state has a surplus of
money, it is still push and shove to get funding for education,
although it will get a financial boost this year. However, there is
also talk about funding teacher raises according to how their students
are performing. In a perfect world, that may work. But most of us in
education know that teachers in at-risk schools work very hard, often
without parental support, to help the children make small gains. There
are also many more affluent schools who have students that will
achieve (because of status and parental support) regardless of how
good the teacher teaches. It is irresponsible to decide that the
teacher in the affluent school should get a bigger raise.
Our governor is also talking all-day kindergarten for at-risk
children. A good idea for helping the disadvantaged. At-risk children
always need more support, which not only includes opportunity, but
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