The California Teachers Association spent the past couple of years blasting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for shortchanging public schools, but now a San Francisco Chronicle article details the degree to which the state's public schools are flush with cash. Don't expect any apologies to the governor, or any effort to return the excess cash to taxpayers. In the world of public schools, teachers unions and Sacramento legislators, the only thing wrong with the state's schools is – can we say it in unison – they don't have enough money to do their job.
Looks like TWC may have to stop insulting people by asking them if they were educated in Californicate public schools. According to the latest information from my better half, California public schools have made tremendous strides in putting together a curriculum that actually focuses on education. I'm still skeptical but she's still the expert on the subject and she says....
AFTER decades in decline, the bloated and beleaguered Los Angeles public school system has turned to a can-do retired navy admiral to save what has become a $US13billion-a-year ($16.9 billion) sinking ship.
When "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno asks young people simple political or historical questions during his popular "Jay Walking" segment, the confused answers are every bit as sad as they are funny.
