Thursday, June 24, 2010

On Special Assignment

Undercover on the left coast, I will post intermittently.
The budget shortfalls in CA are not news anymore, but well documented. Latest meltdown is the City of Oakland planning huge police layoffs in a city where crime has climbed to one of the worst in the country (and you thought the Raiders fans were just acting bad).

From the editorial pages of the San Francisco Chronicle "A graduating problem". Noted in the editorial a few facts, the national high school graduation rate=68.8, up 3.1 percent from 1997. California? Declined 4.7 percent the same period, 2nd worst in the country. Speculation as to why? "California's high school student population is increasingly Latino, a group that has lower graduation rates than the overall population." "It's true that California has a high proportion of English language learners, another group that tends to have lower graduation rates."

The editorial conclusion on how to fix the problem? "...make an urgent task to keep these students engaged" Maybe they should check with their neighbor state to the east...Arizona.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, Mike...slow news week...slow news month??? Things must be "great at Weatherby Lake" for you to have the time to write about how much more dangerous doctors are versus guns.

Anonymous said...

Alot of people want to forget the lost decade
You probably want to forget this but how do you tell your a Republican girlie man?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUzUbtIptqQ

Anonymous said...

Boy California is in bad Shape

Another Socialist Regime

Maybe the Tea Party Mexicans will take their country back

Speaking of out of control government interesting that CA is a favorite target of the investor class
No complaints when we cut tax /cut revenue and spend spend spend not in Oakland but in Poland and every where else in the world

Former Vice President Dick Cheney was admitted to the hospital Friday after experiencing "discomfort"
It was not immediately clear whether Cheney's health concern was related to his previous heart troubles or a moment of painful clarity on his mantra “deficits don’t matter “

Maybe he quit talking so much lately because all his other assignments as acting president also turned out very very badly Iraq ,the "Cheney Energy Task Force," not covered by any Sunshine Law
When it comes to the still unfinished business of our unitary executive it is none of our business

Anonymous said...

Two people at end of AHnold clip was Dick and John clapping and believing every word
McSame believed it a month before we went off a cliff

Anonymous said...

Tea Baggers and NRA ers are not worried about the BP problem in the Gulf

They are worried about what they see as a BP problem in Oakland

Take the country back is code for saying they dont want BP in White House