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QUALITY EDUCATION IN MONTANA?
Posted: 20 Jan 2007 09:32 PM |
Here follows just the Overview of a report Chick Bruce and I delivered (in final form) to the Montana Quality Schools Interim Committee in July, 2005. They published the full report as part of their record, but otherwise ignore it. We did this report as non-paid public service. The recommendations by the Interim Committee to the 2005 Montana Legislature was totally rejected. The recommendation was a very complex funding forumlae.
The 2005 Montana Legislature simply threw more money at the problem. The problem was that the Montana Supreme Court had ruled that the existing Montana educational system violated the Montana Constitution -- and still does.
Chick Bruce and Jim Miller had searched the Web for the better part of a year and found some really good programs and gear which were used by school districts and private schools in other states. We picked the ones which would seem to fit Montana educational needs and compiled them in the final report. Jim Miller personally delivered a copy of the report to Jan Lombari, Gov. Brian Schweitzer's Education Policy Advisor and to Walter Schweitzer, Brian's brother, and his Chief of Staff, Bruce Nelson. The Governor's solution is to throw more money at the problem and let the existing school boards and administrators figure out what to do with the money.
Does anyone see the flaw in the Governor's thinking?
If you want a fully formatted copy of the final report in MSWord, send me an email.
Jim Miller
jimmiller5417@yahoo.com
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INITIAL REPORT TO THE QUALITY SCHOOL INTERIM COMMITTEE
STATE OF MONTANA
BY MONTANA VIRTUAL EDUCATION CONSULTANCY
1. OVERVIEW
Montana Virtual Education Consultancy [MTVEd] proposes several changes to the control and funding of public education for the benefit of Montana citizens. The goals are to create a new awareness of the use of technology in support of quality education, to design and install the system, to provide the necessary teacher and administrative training to best utilize the new technology, to fund the initiatives, and to create the rubrics and metrics which will indicate relative success or failure of any given initiative.
Just providing the tools, will gain a considerable number of these goals. Providing the incentives will greatly increase goal attainment. These incentives include greater reliance on motivation among students, teachers, administrators and a supporting public.
The funding must be substantial, if only to off-set the years of under-funding of Montana public education (as found by three courts). Each of our proposals must be tested for compliance with SB 152 and the court decisions. This initial report attempts lay the foundation to do so. MTVEd offers this report as guidance to the Committee and the stakeholders who are interested in the long-term success of our student population in the science and art of life. A final report will uncatalogued our findings and recommendations for action by the Legislature and Montana public educational institutions.
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