With another budget deficit looming, what state services could be cut with the least amount of impact to the Southeast Valley?
Most of the budget is currently mandated. What can legally be reduced has already been cut to the bone. We dismantled our park system. Should education be next? There are two ways to balance a budget. Reduce spending. Increase Revenue. It’s time that the legislature look at revenue generation and stop relying so heavily on sales tax.
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Loosely related, I caught bits of a program on NPR Friday which featured a couple guys from ASU talking about revenue generation, increasing efficiency, and reducing dependence on ever-declining state funds.
Here’s a novel idea: Less emphasis on raising tuition. More on raising standards.
Pretty irritating to go through 8th grade English in a college classroom because most of the student body still doesn’t understand the difference between their, they’re, and their, and believes that ‘s’ won’t stay put on the end of a word without an apostrophe.
For too long, Americans have viewed education as a silver bullet; a finite course you simply endure, which lands you in a kush, corporate position where you can be paid well and continue to skate by until primetime TV begins.
Every minute our educators spend talking about the money is a minute they’re not talking about education. I must half a dozen people around town chatting about what it would take to open our own schools.
Shit. What if Gangplank offered a high school diploma?
Just random ranty goodness.
ASU has no intentions of raising standards. It would prefer to lower them. Their goal as I understand it is to enroll more students. They are already at over 60,000 students per year.
Gangplank is looking at starting it’s own school. It is already in the 10 year plan. The ball is rolling. If serendipity works out it will happen.