{"id":9401,"date":"2009-07-17T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-17T16:35:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T16:35:32","slug":"arnold-trust-me-i-love-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/17\/arnold-trust-me-i-love-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold: Trust Me, I Love Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

(I’ll be on Green960<\/a>‘s Angie Coiro show today around 7:20PM to discuss the budget and its impact on education. Check it out online here<\/a>. – promoted by Brian Leubitz<\/i>)<\/p>\n

The budget talks remain stalled over education. Essentially, the Governor wants the people of California to trust him, he promises that the $11 Billion owed to education will be repaid. Democrats want to clarify the ambiguities of Prop 98 to constitutionally bind the state to repay the money to education. This money is owed to the states under Prop 98, so in a sense this isn’t really adding anything. However, it would provide a legislative understanding that would avoid litigation should a future governor want to skip paying this money back.  The John Myers\/Anthony York Podcast<\/a> looks at that today.<\/p>\n

From the educational perspective, the whole playing field on which this debate is occurring is really the wrong one.  Put simply, how do you really repay education? Sure, you can make up for the money for a school district two years later. But does that really help the children who had their art and music education eliminated? Does that undo the damage to a 3rd grader who didn’t get the personal attention when he or she was in 1st grade? Does it make up for ground that children have lost because the resources just weren’t there?<\/p>\n

Education is not time-shiftable; there is no TiVo for funding. The development of children requires consistent nourishment.  Stopping and starting programs hurts our students.  The cuts that we are pretending for the moment will be temporary will last a lifetime.<\/p>\n

Of course, Arnold sends his kids to private schools, so what’s the big deal anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The budget talks remain stalled over education. Essentially, the Governor wants the people of California to trust him, he promises that the $11 Billion owed to education will be repaid. Democrats want to clarify the ambiguities of Prop 98 to constitutionally bind the state to repay the money to education. This money is owed to the states under Prop 98, so in a sense this isn’t really adding anything. However, it would provide a legislative understanding that would avoid litigation should a future governor want to skip paying this money back.  The John Myers\/Anthony York Podcast<\/a> looks at that today.<\/p>\n

From the educational perspective, the whole playing field on which this debate is occurring is really the wrong one.  Put simply, how do you really repay education? Sure, you can make up for the money for a school district two years later. But does that really help the children who had their art and music education eliminated? Does that undo the damage to a 3rd grader who didn’t get the personal attention when he or she was in 1st grade? Does it make up for ground that children have lost because the resources just weren’t there?<\/p>\n

Education is not time-shiftable; there is no TiVo for funding. The development of children requires consistent nourishment.  Stopping and starting programs hurts our students.  The cuts that we are pretending for the moment will be temporary will last a lifetime.<\/p>\n

Of course, Arnold sends his kids to private schools, so what’s the big deal anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,117,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-32","category-117","category-21"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2rD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}