California Legislature Rejects Summer School--and Common Sense
"Students at two elementary schools in Chino Hills have been attending summer school for nothing."
The California Legislature rejected the effort by Dickson Elementary and Rolling Ridge Elementary schools to make up for "missing time" that was never missing.
Both schools fulfilled the state-required number of school hours--except that, because their Friday sessions were mistakenly a few minutes short, they didn't count at all. So to avoid losing millions of dollars in state funding, the schools hurriedly tacked on 34 extra days of school.
The legislature was supposedly working hard to correct the school district's mistake and their own misguided law, but they didn't. Instead, they're using it as an opportunity to refuse to give those schools $5 million to which they were otherwise legally entitled. In addition, the schools are out all the extra money they spent on summer school days that aren't being counted.
Hopefully a bill to fix this legal threat to education will fix the equation:
School district mistake + California legislature mistake = punishing the kids and the schools.
Welcome to California.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/inland_empire&id=6908380
Comments
Welcome to the Hotel California.
Posted by: Eagle's Fan | July 15, 2009 04:47 PM
In the words of Charlie Brown, "ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG!"
Posted by: Mabel Little | July 16, 2009 02:14 AM
This is just ridiculous. What if they did this to you on your job? You were five minutes late so we won't pay you for any of the eight hours?
Posted by: Francine | July 18, 2009 04:37 PM