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Originally posted by Spanky
In California we had a move to smaller class sizes. We had a Republican governor (Wilson) who pushed for a limit of thirty students up to the seventh grade. That was pushed through. The idea was to limit all classes in California to thirty students - in other words move the rule up to Junior High School and High School) but the new Democrat governor (Davis) decided not to push it through the upper grades. They just decided to increase spending (which they did dramatically) but let the bureaucracy decide what was best, and so the class reduction effort was stopped. So now in California elementary class sizes are limited to thirty but not so in Junior High and High School.
Of course the increase funding didn't improve anything. The new Republican governor, the Governator, tried to push tenuring of public school teachers back to four years from two years and the teachers association put together a huge war chest and defeated his efforts.
In California the single biggest block to good education reform is the California Teachers Association and their Democrat allies.
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Did you gradutate from a public school in California?
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