should local school district be redrawn to create equal?
364852
well it depends on the exact situation.
450136
no.  it punishes schools that are doing a decent job by expecting ALL schools to live up to an impossible goal.  why not penalize just the schools that are inferior?  honestly, when you look at the average school population (severely mentally handicapped, etc.) how exactly do you expect EVERY child to be performing on grade level by 2013?
486245
School district, for sure. \nwhat a dumb rip-off idea..thats the whole joy of graduating, doin "the walk" & getting that diploma!
201017
Well it would be nice to say that it is based of population and stuff but in reality when one party has control of the general assembly they will redraw the districts in a way that is favorable for that party to win in future elections.
895266
It would be the same as we have in some neighborhoods in Los Angeles whose public schools close as needed for the major Jewish holidays.  As long as they are able to schedule in the requisite number of schooldays per term, it would be beneficial and unifying to the community  However, at this time there probably are few, if any, districts that would have this issue.
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In California it's a big problem.  Did you know only 30 something percent of the education budget is spent on teacher's salaries, only 3% on supplies and just 1% on books.  It's in a Claremont Institue study.  The problem is bureaucracy -- the rest of the money is going to a multitiered bureaucracy with a district bureaucracy, a county bureaucracy, and a state bureaucracy.\n\nTo fix it you need to streamline the bureaucracy!  You probably didnt even know there was a county educational bureaucracy -- most people don't -- i say totally eliminate that layer and streamline the rest.  The Claremont study found that when they did that in Texas performance actually went up.  Then use the money you save by cutting the bureaucracy to build new classrooms and hire more teachers, thus reducing classroom size.
218289
School policy and issues should be addressed and answers found at the local level.  There should be no national policy or federal guide lines on this or any other school issue.  If a local school decides that some form of physical discipline i9s applicable, it should be decided at the local level between the administration, the teachers and the parents.\n\nIn my opinion it isn’t likely to work, at least it won’t result in the type of environment conducive to excellence in education.  First there must be a foundation of behavior established.  This shouldn’t be a major challenge, we’ve done it before.\n\nAt one time it was understood by all that a school was for teaching.  That teachers were there to teach.  That the district, through the board of education and administration, were to provide a “teaching” environment.  Further, that there was an implied contract of the students and their parents that the student was there to participate in that education process.  Exceptions weren’t made for the student who would fit in, rather they were removed so that the teacher and the students could actually function in the education environment.\n\nThis doesn’t mean that the students removed didn’t have to go to school, rather they were placed in more restrictive institutions.  This could continue until they were in what we referred to as reform schools.  Their parents were expected to participate in supporting their children’s education or, their children were removed from them. \n\nPart of that education was the teaching of civility.  How do you act as a part of a member of society?  What does it mean to be a responsible member of society?  The children also must be taught the basics of education to function in society.  This means not only to be able to read, but to read with comprehension.  To be able to write clearly in script.  To understand the rules of spelling and sentence syntax.  To have a least a basic foundation of literature and history.  Certainly there must be understanding of mathematics and its use in society.\n\nShort of that, the local community has failed its responsibility.
927278
Call the local school district that you want to open the school in. or just ask someone in an existing school for the number and the process
585936
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS DICTATE THROUGH THE SCHOOL BOARDS AS TO REGULATE THIS EACH ONE CAN BE DIFF...
591426
Yes, it should.  It's not racism and it makes sense.  Why is racism or non-sensical to have a standard of communication within a county?  Is it the responsibility of the citizens of this country to learn every language known to man?  Don't think so.
1032159
I agree with the first poster, I would like to see more of it happen. It might not work out too great short term but I think it would pay off in the long run. Hopefully it would help diversify more communities, and help people learn about differant cultures and point of views. I think it would also be beneficial to the school systems that would in turn take in more money and even things out a little more. Might be a lessor crime rate and less of a gang problem as well. But on the other hand it could also be devastating to the inner city. Forcing them into an even smaller area and having even worse problems. So yea, I don't know really..
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Norm's answer is partially correct. He is talking about re-districting according to the Census returns. However, the re-districting in the news lately is slightly different.\n\nOur country is a representative Republic, so we cast our votes for representatives. These may be Congressmen, Senators, Presidential Electors, Assemblymen, Councilmen, or whatever. Everyone in the district casts their votes, and the winning candidate becomes the representative of that district. And, of course, there is a limited number of districts.\n\nThe re-districting you are hearing about in the news concerns altering the shape and contents of each district to obtain a desired political effect. This means creating the district so a particular group will have better or more fair showing when the votes are counted. Here are some examples.\n\nIt had been prevalent decades ago to create districts where each district had as few African American people as possible so their total political voice would be dissipated and minimized. In 1964, with the Voting Rights Act, Congress said that problems like this in the past could be "corrected" by creating new districts where the number of African Americans was a majority.\n\nThere has been an allegation that the re-districting in Texas was done to make as many State Legislature districts as possible have Republican majorities. It is suggested that this re-districting would have given Republicans a larger number of votes in the Legislature than would be proper by people's votes. Some Republicans have answered that the previous districting had given Democrats this same unfair advantage, and that this is another type of correction.\n\nI hope this helps.
595971
i know where you are going with this question. yes, state governments should be consolidated, merged and made more efficient, like all businesses of today. now the hard part: the very people who would lose their jobs are the ones who would need to begin this process of reduction and then vote for this consolidation. looks good to me.
219970
Yeah, I grew up in NE Ohio, and the Cleveland City Schools are just a mess. Same with my school district down in Canton. I think that we just need to completely revamp the entire school system for many of the schools not just in NE Ohio.\n\nWe need motivated teachers, curriculums that focus on helping our students become well-rounded students, rooms that are setup for our students to be the best that they could be, but, most of all, we need parents who are behind their kids and act as their motivation and give them a good kick in the ass when they need it.\n\nThings need to change, and while we might not be up to the standards that Europe or the Far East might have, I still think that American schoolchildren are just as good in numerous aspects of intelligence and schooling.\n\nWe need change now!
165038
i think just make you go to the school that the district your in
603404
Possible? Yes. Probable? No.\n\nThe politicians in power have redrawn the voting districts to such a degree that many politicians run unopposed, because there's no way anyone else can get enough votes in their districts to unseat them. To get them out, it will take the people who put them in in the first place to stand up and demand a change.\n\nFrankly, I don't see it happening.
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This is something that is possible but requires great effort to make it happen.  There are good reasons for changing our states' boundaries.  Western and eastern Washngton have very different interests and economies, as do northern and southern California.  I grew up in the San Joaquin Valley of California.  I saw over time the millions in southern California having an inordinate influence on the lives and affairs of the rest of California.  All are good people but their interests can be so dramatically different and continuously at odds, leading to unending stalemates and unresolved problems.