Issues/Topics: Accountability

Letter from I.V.B.E. President Shelley Nelson to FCEE (FL Council of Elementary Educators (4/16/01)

Shelley Nelson writes to FCEE to ask some questions about their stated goals and mission statement.

 

The Real $$ Trail (Voices: Feb, 2001)

Charlotte Greenbarg reports that  the increase in total dollars far exceeds the increases in both students and teachers.

 

It Was Always About Money (Voices: Fall, 1999)

Charlotte Greenbarg makes a good case that the actions of the edumonster belie their public pronouncements characterizing themselves as child-centered.

 

No Taxes Without Real Reform and Accountability (Voices: Fall, 1999)

Statistics from the Miami-Dade school district prove that until there is reform and accountability, taxes should NOT be increased.

 

Educational Expenditures for the state of Florida 1982-83 and 1991-92 (Voices: Fall, 1999) 

A startling comparison of state-wide education expenditures for the state of Florida for 1982-83 and 1991-92 and some specific financial and academic details relating to Miami-Dade.

 

IVBE's Response to "Poverty Hinders Learning" Theory (Voices: Fall, 1999)

Charlotte Greenbarg responds to an article in the Miami Herald that posed the theory that "Poverty, not bad schools, hinders learning."

 

Charlotte’s Bits & Pieces (Voices: Fall, 1998)

1. Vouchers Work!
2. Miami-Dade Schools to “Reform”?
3. Speaking of Miami-Dade’s Power Structure
4. How Much is Enough?
5. And They Beat Up on Rep. Bill Andrews
6. Speaking of that Teleconference
7. What’s in a Name?
8. Spending More, Enjoying It Less
9. How Little it Takes

 

Legislative Update (Voices: Fall, 1997)

Charlotte Greenbarg brings us up to date on legislation that affects education.

 

More Bits and Pieces (Voices: Winter, 1996-97)

Charlotte Greenbarg relates the first chapter in the founding of I.V.B.E.

 

But Everybody Knows Teachers Don’t Make Enough and Classes Are More Crowded! (Voices: Winter, 1996)

Teresa Hearne discusses the myths associated with teachers and over-crowding.

 

Here They Are -- The Discretionary Accounts (Voices: Summer, 1994)

Charlotte Greenbarg discusses the discretionary accounts, i.e., those moneys available to individual schools for discretionary spending.

 

Universal Bureaucracy, Tax Dollars, and Human Nature (Voices: Summer, 1994)

Martin Schlossberg discusses the common practice of spending all of the money in the budget whether needed or not.

 

The public school system is failing miserably at teaching U.S. students even the most rudimentary skills. In the past several decades, schools have abandoned proven teaching methods for experiments which defy basic common sense and which have been scientifically proven to be ineffective.

I.V.B.E. is striving to make school systems accountable for the what goes on in the classroom.

A prime strategy used by school boards and legislatures in confronting any problem is to throw money at it. During the past several decades, school budgets have increased at several times the rate of growth in student population. Yet, the cry is always "We can't do the job properly, because we do not have enough money."

I.V.B.E. is striving to make school systems accountable for how school systems spend tax dollars.