Rhee Says Florida And Louisiana, Where Teachers Paid Among Worst, Are Best Education States

[Report1212]

Oh Rhee...

Michelle Rhee’s anti-teachers union organization StudentsFirst has just put out a “report card” of education systems state by state. In the ranking, which can be found here, Louisiana and Florida are the two top-rated states.

The placing of these two states at the top of the list is curious. StudentsFirst gave higher ratings to states that emphasized the use of charter schools and teacher evaluations based on high-stakes testing. But her organization ignored actual results. For example, it gave a “D” rating — the second-worst — to Massachusetts, which has some of the highest test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress exam.

There is one thing that Florida and Louisiana have in common — they are among the worst states for teacher compensation. Florida in 2011 ranked 47th in the country for teacher salaries. Louisiana’s average teacher salary is 42nd in the country.

To put things in perspective, the starting salary of a teacher in Catahoula Parish in Lousiana who has a bachelor’s degree is $31,322. That’s less money than Rhee charges for one speech she gives. It appears that Rhee’s ratings of education systems disregard poor wages for the actual educators.

Read more: http://boldprogressives.org/michelle-rhee-says-florida-and-lousiana-where-teachers-paid-among-worst-are-best-education-states/

[MADem]

1. Children in those states are quite often VICTIMS of public education.

The states do not support the education process at all...and it shows. They get C+ grades in this breakdown:


http://www.edweek.org/ew/qc/2012/16src.h31.html

[leftyohiolib]

2. right, now give em guns so they can patrol the school yard

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. I guess I'll give her credit for getting so far in life

being the two bit hustler that she is. Why so many in power give a flying fuck about her lame ass opinions is beyond me.

[longship]

4. LA, where privatized schools use science texts written at Bob Jones University.

That claim a literal interpretation of Genesis from the Bible, and that dinosaurs were vegetarians before Eve ate the apple less than 10,000 years ago. Oh! And they lived at the same time as humans. Bob Jones may as well be named Fred Flinstone University. They probably have a Hannah-Barbera building there.

Yabba-Dabba-Do!

Michelle Rhee is a fucking idiot, and would be the end of education if she had her warped, mean-spirited way.

Michelle Rhee is evil incarnate.

[KamaAina]

5. The Compleat Rhee

http://www.rheefirst.com/

[jsr]

15. Rhee must be of royal blood

Or maybe she's related to the torture master:



All right-wing assholes.

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[Rex]

7. Why does she hate education/educators so much?

Did she do poorly in school? Have that one mean English teacher in 9th grade? Or is it she is a corporate puppet on auto drive?

[Orangepeel]

8. Hah! Well, if anything will expose her lack of credibility, that should do it.

[KamaAina]

9. Yet South Dakota, where teacher pay also sucks, gets an F

Can it be that SD actually manages to get results without resorting to big-bucks corporate privatization? (This is a bit of a hot button for me at the moment, since San Jose just approved yet another Rocketship charter over the objections of neighbors who wanted a middle school. Also, the land, adjacent to a light rail station, would have been ideal for badly needed affordable housing.)

[Report1212]

10. Rhee is ideological

She pretends not to be, but she is.

[MichiganVote]

11. I think she's a head case who enjoys destruction.

[Squinch]

12. The ridiculousness is astonishing, yet there are plenty who will think it's the gospel truth.

And in the meantime, school districts all over the country continue to implement the destructive policies she pioneered without any understanding of the harm they cause.

[DirkGently]

13. Rhee's reputation as an education reformer is a fiction.

She's a Republican-enabling stooge for the destruction of public education. Apparently the recent Frontline exposed her a bit.

[ananda]

14. Best for whom?

Not teachers and children, that's for sure.

[DonCoquixote]

16. As a Florida resident

Anyone who thinks Florida schools are good is stone cold crazy. There is a reason why companies are scared to bring jobs here, because they know they will NOT have an educated workforce, nor have a good public school system for their kids. The state relies on people educated elsewhere to fill a lot of positions, and even the colleges are funded poorly, save for the Football Bordellos of U of F and Florida State.

Of course, Rhee is not talking about people actually being educated, but rather kids who have no job skills, nor soul for art, nor even critical thinking skills. In that case, Florida does a good job.