NO TAXES WITHOUT REAL REFORM AND ACCOUNTABILITY 

We offer this evidence.  No more taxes can be inflicted on the citizens of this state without true reform and accountability.  (Evidence gathered from Dade County School System's own data, and other sources.) 

    Conclusion from District & School Profiles (90-91):

The longer minorities (80% of our students) stay in school, the lower their scores get.  

 

	107% MORE MONEY given to education since 1980, with no improvement in achievement.
	Average salary, with fringes, of the top 64 Dade administrators is $107,800 per year.
	Actual Dade's teachers' salaries average $38,400; use of pupils to fight a wage battle; trading off higher salaries for packed classrooms.
	Miami-Dade Community College report: Students from the top 20% of high school classes required remediation at Miami-Dade.
	Comparison of education spending per pupil:       U.S. - over $3000/student  Japan - over $2000/student
	Problems with the $980 million school construction program.
	Use of taxpayers' money to urge parents and students to lobby for more taxes.
	School Board agenda item on $18 million administration building, complete with skywalks.
	Collective bargaining documents imposing (without consent of parents and community) a 20% cap on participation on decision-making committees.
	Articles on abuses in one elementary school.  National award was rescinded; principal may never run a school again

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From IVBE's newsletter Voices -- Fall, 1999