Republican Rick Scott Cuts Budget For Colleges. Why are Republicans so Stupid?
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2012/05/25 11:57:17
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For the first time, University of South Florida students will pay more than half of the cost of their college education next year as tuition rises and the state's contribution continues to decline.
It's a shift that's likely to be mirrored across the state.
"The signals emanating from Tallahassee are very clear," USF provost Ralph Wilcox told members of the university's board of trustees at a meeting Thursday. "There appears to be no interest in meaningful investment in higher education in the state of Florida."
For years, state leaders pushed programs like the Florida Prepaid College Fund and Bright Futures Scholarships that aimed at getting more students into state universities. Now the cost of college is more on the backs of students than ever, with state support dropping at an even faster rate. That includes a $300 million systemwide cut in Florida's 2012-13 state budget that was signed into law this week by Gov. Rick Scott.
"I don't appreciate it," said Susan Edgerley of Westchase, whose daughter Liz just began as a freshman at the University of Florida. "In fact, should they call it a state (university)? At this point, I don't know."
At USF it could mean larger classes, fewer of them, and fewer taught by full-time professors, Wilcox told trustees. It could mean a longer time to graduate and more time spent racking up student debt.
"We're really headed toward a train wreck," said USF trustee Gene Engle.
It's the same story at other universities.
Once again Republicans are proving they are short sighted idiots, hurting our citizens to save a buck. If you want college expenses to go up, killing our kids' futures at the same time, then vote Republican.
Once again Republicans are proving they are short sighted idiots, hurting our citizens to save a buck. If you want college expenses to go up, killing our kids' futures at the same time, then vote Republican.
- The estimated public high school graduation rate in Texas ranks 43rd of the 50 states.
- Among 4.75 million students in Texas public schools in 2008-09, the most recent year for statistics compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics, 48.8 percent were eligible for free or reduced lunches and 15.1 percent were in limited-English proficiency programs.
Time to cut some budget - Texas 2012 state budget included $4 billion in cuts to public schools and cut financial aid to 43,000 college students...
Excerpts from Texas Republican Party platform on education which is a conservative model for success:
Page 13, under "Educating our Children":
- Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
- Parental School Choice – We encourage the Governor and the Texas Legis...
- The estimated public high school graduation rate in Texas ranks 43rd of the 50 states.
- Among 4.75 million students in Texas public schools in 2008-09, the most recent year for statistics compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics, 48.8 percent were eligible for free or reduced lunches and 15.1 percent were in limited-English proficiency programs.
Time to cut some budget - Texas 2012 state budget included $4 billion in cuts to public schools and cut financial aid to 43,000 college students...
Excerpts from Texas Republican Party platform on education which is a conservative model for success:
Page 13, under "Educating our Children":
- Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
- Parental School Choice – We encourage the Governor and the Texas Legislature to enact child-centered school funding options which fund the student, not schools or districts, to allow maximum freedom of choice in public, private, or parochial education for all children.
- Private Education – We believe that parents and legal guardians may choose to educate their children in private schools to include, but not limited to, home schools and parochial schools without government interference, through definition, regulation, accreditation, licensing, or testing.
- Political Community Organizing in Texas Schools - We believe neither Texas public schools should be used nor their students should be instructed by groups such as SEIU or other community organizers as instruments to promote political agenda during the instructional school day.
What about conservative religious organizations?
- Religious Freedom in Public Schools – We urge school administrators and officials to inform Texas school students specifically of their First Amendment rights to pray and engage in religious speech, individually or in groups, on school property without government interference. We urge the Legislature to end censorship of discussion of religion in our founding documents and encourage discussing those documents.
The dumbing-down of the USA continues ...
Why are Universities and Colleges costs rising so rapidly? What part do unions play in this, what about tenure for professors, what about their "defined benefit" pension plan, what about the bureaucracy and other factors that contribute to the costs. That's where you should be looking.
Source:
http://inflationdata.com/infl...
http://crooksandliars.com/joh...
A 2007 study by sociology Professors Neil Gross (Harvard) and Solon Simmons (George Mason) showed that 44% of the 1417 faculty members from two and four year American colleges surveyed self-categorized as "liberal/very liberal", 18% self categorized as "slightly liberal", 18% self-categorized as "middle-of-the-road", and 20% self categorized as "slightly conservative/conservative/very conservative". Based on the description provided in the link you post here is nothing permanent about the funding scheme the Koch family offered; the university receiving the offer could hire faculty for a few years to increase the number of conservative faculty and then advise the Kochs they were being deprived of their approval rights. But you apparently find that an outrageous imposition on faculty prerogatives. Easy impulse for you to be comfortable with when the status quo results in almost two/thirds of the faculty rejecting the political ideas of those you dislike. You want to see someone who likes the idea of indoctrination? Quit whining about the Koch brothers and conservatives and go look in the mirror.
But, then again, perhaps I've merely failed to perceive that your musing has led you to a conclusion you omitted stating. Has your recollection of your experience indicated to you that appointing a few Rep/con professors to a college's Economics faculty isn't going to have much of an impact on indoctrinating undergrads? I can almost hear you salivating at the thought of those foolish Koch Brothers pissing away their money. Thank you for being so open-minded as to allow yourself to convert to the side of Academic Enlightenment.
Despite our newfound bonhomie, I must admit to my inability to figure out why anything we've said would lead one to conclude that "con profs are more vocal politically nowadays". Feel free to explain if so inclined.
On the chance that I can avoid making you respond, let me note that I have no special relationship to the Koch Bothers. When I read the article you linked, which was the first time I heard of the program it discussed, I assumed the Kochs were funding an expansion of the professors who teach conservative economic theory because they are True Believers, who believe in the efficacy of Market Economics and wish others to gain their insights in the belief that the increase in such knowledge is a "tide that will raise all ships". I'm not unaware that there could be less charitable motives, but I don't choose to place much credence in them at my current level of knowledge.
High school drop outs, maybe overdosed on Midol because their " ALWAYS " on the rag !
Inbreeds ! Reprobates ! Trailer trash old and senile !
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Don't want too many people going to college - they might catch on. Isn't that what Santorum said?
To reduce this is penny wise and pound foolish.
So, of course, Republicans like dimwitted Rick Scott throw a huge bolder in the paths of college kids to make certain some will wind up flipping burgers instead of pursuing that engineering degree. Then they will turn around and say," See how lazy kids are today? It's because Demcrats have been giving them stuff." Same old line of bull sheet.
Willard showed his ignorant azz again in a inner city school yesterday. Sitting with teachers and school officials, Willard dropped a couple of bombs that left mouths wide open. Class size doesn't matter and the best way to make certain kids get a good education is to have two parent households. There you have it... the Republican educational plan.
Columbia/HCA. When he was chief executive, the hospital chain committed among the largest Medicare and Medicaid fraud in history and paid $1.7 billion in fines after Scott left.