Friday, January 15, 2010
Legislature / Politics / Woods Lawmakers Finally Find Something to Fight About in Special Session
Posted by Jeff Woods on Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:33 AM
"That goes without saying. Let's just look at this. Democrats try to be fair to everyone. We appreciate everyone, and Republicans don't have the same interest in minorities. They're all white or mostly."There's one other point of disagreement: The House wants educators to make up a majority of the advisory panel. In the Senate version of the bill, five members would be teachers or principals. Turner said:
"There's an element on the Republican aisle that's not as pro-public education as most of us up here are. They're more in the home school vein, more private school vein, more voucher vein, more charter school vein. They do not particularly appreciate what public school teachers do in this state. We don't want them to put a bunch of voucher advocates on this thing. That would be detrimental to public schools."Update: Andy Sher
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Have they seen the scores? It should be five. http://edu.reportcard.state.tn.us/pls/apex/f?p=200:20:7634104328836973::NO
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I can solve this problem. The State of Tennessee is 16.4% Black. Therefor 16.4% of the committee 'should be' Black.
15 * .164 = 2.45
Therefor there 'should be' either 2 or 3 Black members of the committee. Lets call it 3.
Next?
If we're gonna slice and dice, shouldn't the number reflect the makeup of the public school system, rather than the demographic makeup of the population as a whole?
24.6% of Public School students in the state of Tennessee are Black. Therefor 24.6% of the committee 'should be' Black.
15 * .246 = 3.69
Therefor there 'should be' 4 Black members of the committee.
The problem with this approach is that it assumes that those citizens w/o children in the Public School system should have NO say. That is inherently undemocratic.
