Just spending more for education or for medical insurance has not worked for us.

[Supposn]

Just spending more for education or for medical insurance has not worked for us.

There's no reason to believe the federal rather than a state government could or would better or sooner devise a method to improve education and training systems. A democratic republics are very much dependent upon the extent of their voters and their representatives being knowledgeable and actively participating in their governments' affairs. Parents and voters do not have the facts upon which they can compare their local schools to those if their neighboring school districts, or states. Governments can be better held responsible if they can be compared to others.

Every child in the USA should be annually medically and academically tested by standard federal tests appropriate to the child's age and condition. To encourage that every child is tested, every parent or legal guardian that makes their child available for the battery of standardized tests appropriate for their child's age and medical conditions shall be compensated, and the amount of that compensation shall be annually adjusted to retain the compensation's purchasing power.

The funding of this compensation could be primarily enabled by it replacing the federal income tax reductions of taxable incomes per dependent child. This policy is an improvement of our current policy that's providing more government financial support for guardians of children with lesser needs, and less support for those with greater needs.

The results of an individual's tests should be confidential. The parents or guardians are entitled to a documented report of their child's test results.
Parents and guardians may choose to have their individual child's test results be identified and transmitted to other appropriate doctors, or medical facilitates, or schools, but there should be safeguards to prevent compelling childrens' parents or their guardians to divulge their private information.

Aggregate Statistical test results should be widely published for each state within the USA, and for each U.S. Congressional district within those states.

The administrators of each identifiable reported political jurisdictions, or schools, or medical facilities that tested more than 100 different children within the year, shall receive a report of the aggregate statistical test results within their jurisdictions. The state governors and all members of the U.S. U.S. senators shall also have access to those reports.

Respectfully, Supposn

 

[Claudette]

I agree. Get rid of the Dept. of Education. Let the States take care of what's going on for education in their State.

We don't need a Federal Dept. of Education.

As for HC?? Kick it back to the private sector where it belongs. All anyone has to do is look at the VA to see what a mess the Federal Govt. will make of HC.

 

[Supposn]

Claudette, we need a federal Department of Education because:
We need standardized tests to compare the products of our schools with other schools districts, cities, counties, and states. (It would also be helpful if we make comparisons to other nations.
We need reports and comparisons of other educational systems and methods successes or failures.
We need development and promotion of improved search engines, and information filing and retrieval methods.

The Federal Department of Education should be performing those tasks.

Respectfully, Supposn

 

[Claudette]

Claudette, we need a federal Department of Education because:
We need standardized tests to compare the products of our schools with other schools districts, cities, counties, and states. (It would also be helpful if we make comparisons to other nations.
We need reports and comparisons of other educational systems and methods successes or failures.
We need development and promotion of improved search engines, and information filing and retrieval methods.

The Federal Department of Education should be performing those tasks.

Respectfully, Supposn

I disagree. The Fed has proven to be inept in a lot of things.

The States have many education professionals that can do the job. They know what's needed in their States and they sure don't need the Fed to oversee or manage them.

They should do away with the Dept. of Education. No one would miss them

 

[Supposn]

Claudette, we need a federal Department of Education because:
We need standardized tests to compare the products of our schools with other schools districts, cities, counties, and states. (It would also be helpful if we make comparisons to other nations.
We need reports and comparisons of other educational systems and methods successes or failures.
We need development and promotion of improved search engines, and information filing and retrieval methods.

The Federal Department of Education should be performing those tasks.

Respectfully, Supposn

I disagree. The Fed has proven to be inept in a lot of things.

The States have many education professionals that can do the job. They know what's needed in their States and they sure don't need the Fed to oversee or manage them.

They should do away with the Dept. of Education. No one would miss them

Claudette, private enterprises have never provided educational services for the majority of their nations' populations. It's track record when they have entered the field of pre-school to high-school education has comparatively, not been more successful than that of public schools when you consider the disadvantages and constraints upon public school administrations.

Some foreign governments have been demonstratively more successful that USA federal, non-profits, local school boards, and commercial efforts. The states and the local school boards in the USA have been failing.

Obviously, some foreign governments are administrating their educational and training systems in manners superior to USA's practices.

Respectfully, Supposn