Thousands of schools across the country are in tremendous need of repair, remodeling, or replacement. and learns firsthand how indoor air quality issues affect student success.
in providing a minimum environment for effective teaching and learning. It represents the types of problems America’s public school students face nationwide.
There is hope on the horizon, my dears.
For more than ten long, empty, intellectually dry and dishonest years, we’ve lived under . (Someone told me not to be so negative. Trust me. I’m holding back.) Children, especially poor children, have been subjected to a corporate “reform” mentality of pass/fail by making their quota of test score points on some standardized garbage never designed to gauge anything more delicately complex than a child’s understanding of where the comma goes.
(Ironically, the only ones lately who have been afforded “social promotion” have been the morally corrupt CEOs who were awarded their , but I digress.) (more…)
I’m sorry. I’m not normally a violent person. But how can you not want to slap the next clown that routinely and without an pinky fingernail-size of evidence continues to characterize the mega-wealthiest amongst us as “Job Creators”?
A bona-fide mega-wealthy rich guy is Nick Hanauer. He’s got millions and millions and says he wants politicians and pundits bent on protecting his millions and millions to cease and desist calling him a Job Creator. He’s had great ideas. He’s taken big risks. He’s made smart business bets. And God bless him for it. But he says,
He says if any jobs were created by his ideas and risks and bets, it’s because there were customers for what he was selling. Without customers, there’s no one to buy your product or service. And if customers don’t have jobs and decent pay to go along with those jobs, they can’t buy what you’re selling.
Customers with a paycheck create jobs. And when customers lose their jobs and their paychecks, giving all the tax breaks and tax credits and tax loopholes in the world to the mega-wealthy won’t create a consumer.
In fact, giving the mega-wealthy more may actually mean you’ve given them some loophole that pays them to create jobs… in China.
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In an effort to highlight the dire, immediate need for school modernization funding to repair schools that are literally falling to pieces, Lily and NEA Health Information Network Director Jerry Newberry,
An estimated 14 million American children attend deteriorating public schools. Of the existing 80,000 public schools, at least one-third need extensive repair or replacement and at least two-thirds have unhealthy environmental conditions.
“The message these kids get when they look up and see their classroom ceiling leaking and falling in is, ‘I don’t matter,’” Lily noted “How can we expect students to achieve in these conditions? This is a national crisis. We need to repair our public schools to keep our children healthy and allow them to learn.”