Walker eliminates Reading Specialists -with his use of an Executive Order.

[iwishiwas]

I just do not understand how a Governor can do this!!
Maybe I can--it is Dictator Walker!!



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http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=33049

Reading comprehension

Last week, Gov. Walker signed Executive Order #22: Read to Lead Task Force.

The idea, taken from Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, aims to improve reading scores among students in kindergarten through third grade. But Walker's plan also removes one of the main tools for students to learn: reading specialists.

All school districts are currently required to have reading specialists. Walker's order eliminates this requirement, much to the dismay of the Wisconsin Education Association Council.

"Eliminating experts who teach students — especially those who struggle most — how to read at the same time he's creating new reading requirements is poor policy," said the union in a statement. "If you want to elevate student reading standards you should concentrate on giving them the individualized resources they need to succeed."

Joe Quick, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Association of School Boards, says many districts "can probably share a reading specialist." But he notes other peculiar things about Walker's initiative. For instance, the task force is being placed within the Department of Administration, not the Department of Public Instruction.

Quick says, "It seems like the individuals who work at DPI have a better understanding of reading issues than the Department of Administration."

Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie, as usual, did not respond to a request for comment.

[ejpoeta]

1. well, when the schools fail he will blame them and take more money away from them

to give to someone who wants to make a profit.

[Raksha]

2. One more reason for me to despise Walker more than I do already.

Only this time it's personal, in a way. One of my son's three part-time teaching jobs (because he can't get a full-time job with California's tight budget) is as a reading and math tutor. Fortunately, it's in a private clinic where his job can't be budgeted or executive-ordered out of existance. His other two jobs are with the public school system. If he were a reading specialist in Wisconsin he'd be SOL.

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[Ed Suspicious]

4. I hate this man. I despise his weaselly ways.

I loathe him!

[Rex]

5. It is all part of the campaign to further 'dumb down' America to a

manageable amount of sheep and cattle. If we don't stop evil people like Walker, then critical thinking skills will be lost to future generations. This was just the first move, the next will be to get rid of public schools in favor of home schooling or charter schools. Bank on it.

[themadstork]

6. Urgh.

The repubs are such slime. Reading well is a key piece of an authentic education, but he tosses aside reading tutors while upping the test-score madness. Pretty clear indication of their actual priorities: setting public schools up to fail in order to privatize them later, all at the expense of the sudents.

[Angry Dragon]

7. Dumb, da-dumb, dumb

Dictator Walker has determined that education is unimportant, college drop-out to governor, education not needed

[theaocp]

8. When reading well is outlawed

only outlaws will read well. I'm completing my capstone project for my Masters in Reading/Literacy Specialist next year. I hope reading well isn't outlawed by then. :grr:

[liberal N proud]

9. The plan: Cause the schools to fail, then propose...

After the schools are total failures and can no longer teach the students, they will have no choice but to privatize them.

That is what it is really about, privatization. Someone making a million off the middle class tax payers.

[theaocp]

10. drown it in a bathtub, baby!

who the hell else is going to fight our wars, flip our burgers, and pick our cotton? Welcome back to the plantations, kids! Here's your shack!

[Canuckistanian]

11. Peasants don't have to know how to read

Just color code the controls on their work machines.

And those darned contracts don't mean anything, they're all written by lawyers, so just sign them. Yes, right there, with a big "X". That'll do.

[iwishiwas]

12. Yes, that is Walker and his repug poodles motto.