So who'd they actually survey for this? I mean beyond Plantation Peter Dreier and hatchet woman Virginia Hoge and the PUSD administrative staff.
From the Pasadena SNooze:
Survey: PUSD residents prefer bond measure
By Caroline An, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 06/11/2008 08:53:21 PM PDT
PASADENA - Voters in the Pasadena Unified School District slightly prefer a bond over a parcel tax to pay for campus improvements, according to recent surveys.
In two surveys conducted last month that sampled 500 voters, 61 percent said they would support a proposed $300 million bond measure.
By contrast, 60 percent of voters said they would go for a parcel tax.
PUSD school board members commissioned the survey as a way to gauge community support for either a bond measure or parcel tax on the November ballot.
A parcel tax would need a two-thirds majority to pass, while a bond measure would need 55 percent approval from voters.
The whole story: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_9557780
I know we all want to support public education and PUSD but shouldn't they show us something first? All we've seen from these guys is pretty much nothing. THere's a new superintendent. That's great, but he hasn't DONE anything. All PUSD really can show us is closed schools, wasted Measure Y money and shabby work.
Here's the BIG question: Am I going to want my kids in PUSD after they take another couple of hundred bucks a year outta my wallet? Well, NO!
So PUSD board, ask me for more $$$. I'll vote NO!
You're supposed to be smart folks. How about waiting until we see some real progress from the new superintendent before you try to pick my pocket? If test scores go up, things look like they're runnin' better and you're not wasting a buncha money, maybe I'll think about spending more of my money on PUSD.
And why're my tax dollars paying for voter surveys, anyway? Aren't there schoolbooks to buy or teachers to pay?
For now, I gotta pay for gas.
D.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
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Not a word about a final report or independent audit of the Measure Y money. This administration should get all of the information out and let the chips fall where they may. If it is bad, all you gotta say is, "it wasn't us and here is how we are different." Otherwise, isn't it business as usual?
Property Tax increase sounds so ugly. Bond sounds pretty! Like my new pony. Like a shiny new penny!
One time, in another life, my neighbors and I questioned a bond that was tacked on to our property tax bill. It was a significant amount of money and no one knew what it was for?
It turned out it belonged to some defunct water company that needed improvements back in the 1940s. Everyone just kept paying it.
We had it removed but it was hard to do-even after the thing had long expired.
I'd vote no on this. I heard a rumor that this was gonna come up.
Hey, I'm going to go do a scientific survey. Let me go survey a bunch of Angels fans and ask them who the best team in baseball is this season?
Wonder what kind of answer I'd get.
PW: http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/an_ad_hoc_by_any_other_name/6060/
Coleman reports that the YDVPC dissolved in part because dispositve reports of seriously illegal student activity were hoarded from the other committee members by Lizardo and Cooper (both PUSD).
I wonder why they would do a thing like that?
ahhh ms. havisham, you are ASSUMING that board members lizardo and cooper actually HAD copies of such dispositive reports given to them. You know what they say about assuming... Anyhoos, the district administration, i.e., superintendent, asst superintendents, etc., likely had this information but it was NOT shared with boardmembers. Most recently, there was another such case where there was an Office of Civil Rights complaint at Marshall and yet the board knew NOTHING because the superintendent had not wanted to share anything with his board...they learned about the OCR complaint from the papers. Don't ya just love it?!
That thoroughly disgusts me. And, I don't disgust easily.
What does Edwin Diaz think of that?
Dormitas,
You're like a big fat squirrel. Just all over the place, messy, but cute.
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