Academically we rank almost dead last among 4th and 8th graders in the country (NAEP). Hey at least we are beating Mississippi right?

Annually, 1/5 of students will not graduate high school, and of those who do, 1/3 are considered “college ready”. Maybe that’s why we’re not getting into college!

In 2015, with so many students failing, LAUSD lowered its passing grade for “AG” courses to a D.  D stands for determined right?

We removed the California Exit Exam because too many were failing it. Let’s see..if we wanted to raise the graduation rate to mask performance problems…what could we do?

The CTA and its affiliates have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat school choice and education reforms.  What if the loudest opponents of change were the ones making the most money from the system as it stands? That would be interesting wouldn’t it?

Teachers in California are granted tenure or “permanent employee status” after just 18 months. Do you have permanent employment at your job? We don’t either. 

In the last decade, only 22 out of 300,000 tenured teachers have been dismissed for poor performance.  So as California’s education system has descended to the bottom of the rankings, we have let go…two people a year. 

In the last 50 years, there has been a 700% increase in administrative positions relative to student growth. And there you have it…you discovered where all your tax dollars went. To adults. To bureaucracy. Not to children.