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StumblePublished Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 | 10:48 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 | 10:52 a.m.
That's the pitch in the latest fundraising missive from the governor's campaign, with an all-caps headline:
STAND UP FOR THE CHILDREN OF NEVADA!
Re-Elect Governor Jim Gibbons
As a long time supporter of Nevada schools and students, you are a vital part of the effort to improve the failing education system in our great state. I am writing to tell you how much your dedication means to me, and to ask for your support in stepping onto a bold, new path.
It is time to break the cycle of hearings, studies, reports, and committees to report on the studies. It is time to implement real change. It is time for new ideas and fresh resolve.
We must rethink the historic pattern of imposing special earmarks from Carson City and legislatively mandated expenditures on our school districts.
The manner in which education is delivered to children should not be dictated by unions. Parents, teachers, communities, and teams of dedicated administrators and staff are the key to student success. These education leaders should not have to answer to the coercive power of teacher unions that are not working in the best interests of our children.
We need to recognize that it is possible to both save money and enhance student performance.
My plan to overhaul the education system begins with these steps:
Adopt a statewide voucher system, give parents choice and control, and give school districts more power over the way their funding is allocated.
Allow more flexibility in school structure and planning by eliminating local government and school district collective bargaining. This will return control of the education system to parents, students, and school boards in the local communities.
Eliminate the elected state Board of Education and replace it with a five member advisory board. The State Superintendent of Education would be hired by, serve at the pleasure of, and report to the Governor.
Streamline K-12 school funding and create empowerment school districts, letting school districts decide where to best put those resources based on their student populations.
Teachers and parents all across Nevada have contacted me and applauded our efforts to find new solutions to old problems. We can work together with innovation and determination to make Nevada schools a model for the future!
My friend, please join me in the fight to give Nevada’s children the educational opportunities they deserve by breaking away from old, worn out strategies that have not delivered satisfactory student achievement. I need your help to move this fight forward!
Sincerely,
Jim Gibbons
Really, REALLY sucking up to the flat earthers and wingnuts here....
FYI, Goober, with both parties almost equally divided it's we Nonpartisans who do the deciding here and this a guarantee for us to vote for Judge Sandoval.
"It is time to break the cycle of hearings, studies, reports, and committees to report on the studies. It is time to implement real change. It is time for new ideas and fresh resolve."
Where the H*ll have you been for the last 3 years and what the H*ll were you doing?
This guy lives somewhere out of the realm of reality.
Kind of reminds me of "Dubya" Bush: Down is up, black is white, and dumb is smart.
In just one term as governor, Gibbons has done more to destroy public education in Nevada than all the evil "teacher unions" combined.
This is our "education governor," remember?
What a joke...we cannot get rid of this clown fast enough.
NPRI is hosting an education conference in March with speakers from across the country http://www.writeonnevada.com/2010/02/201...
Nevada does need statewide empowerment and vouchers would also be wonderful for students, especially low-income students.
I like it. Get rid of the non-essential garbage and concentrate on educating the children.
jeffdeancase,
Very well said.
What a silly class clown our Gym "education Governor" Gibbons turned out to be.
I'm speechless.
"The manner in which education is delivered to children should not be dictated by unions".the union has no control over what is taught in my classroom-none.No control over curricula,the way I teach,how I teach it,or when I teach it.
"Adopt a statewide voucher system, give parents choice and control,and give school districts more power over the way their funding is allocated".so they can go where?Schools and classrooms are over crowded.Private schools don't have to take all students. Do you really think they will admit a 4th grader reading on a 1st grade level because they have a voucher??
"Allow more flexibility in school structure and planning by eliminating local government and school district collective bargaining" Then we get back the right to STRIKE. We already have flexiblity in structure and planning.
"Eliminate the elected state Board of Education and replace it with a five member advisory board. The State Superintendent of Education would be hired by,serve at the pleasure of,and report to the Governor". now that's brilliant!Have the blind lead the blind leading education right off the cliff.
"Streamline K-12 school funding and create empowerment school districts,letting school districts decide where to best put those resources based on their student populations." again,no clue.Districts already get to decide how to spend the money from the state.We aren't going to be getting money to decide what to do with!
"Teachers and parents all across Nevada have contacted me and applauded our efforts to find new solutions to old problems." Seriously? Teachers have applauded your cutting of our benefits,our salaries,our retirement,and our jobs? They have applauded your repeated efforts to undermine our ability to effectively teach the children of this state?I think not.
"My friend,please join me in the fight to give Nevada's children the educational opportunities they deserve by breaking away from old,worn out strategies that have not delivered satisfactory student achievement" When pink unicorns do my housework-and not a day sooner.I'd vote for Barney the dinosaur before I'd vote for Gibbons-at least I know Barney would do a better job with education.
Gibbons wouldn't know good education strategies if they walked up and bit his nose. Better yet, I doubt he could survive one week in an elementary classroom doing my job.
Gov. Gibbons- I challenge you to spend one week in an elementary classroom;including doing all your own planning, attending all meetings,cover any assigned duties,make and grade all assessments and papers,deal with all discipline problems,all parents,AND be formally evaluated by the administration and the students.
You want to change education,yet you know nothing about it. Come teach my 31 students for a week-after they pass the CRT of course.
And in the mean time today he is calling for 10% cut to education.
You will never hear them call for an end to the wars, or cuts to defense spending.War profiteers & special interests pay good money for Congress to keep quiet about ending war.Pentagon: $700 billion, Education:$68 billion. Do your job- follow the constitution that you swore to protect & defend.All of you are obligated to do what is in the best interests of our people.War is killing us, & yet the gov't is silent- or complicit??? Once you stop spending our treasure on war,then, & only then, will we allow our representative government to consider ANYTHING else!
It makes me sick to think about all the money they'll spend on their own elections, while our people are homeless, hungry, & without healthcare.Best solution would be to not vote.If I spent huge amounts of cash for an election & the voters stayed home, I certainly would think twice before wasting the money next time. Hey! Maybe we can borrow some cash from Congress!
57% of congress members are millionaires.