-Caveat Lector-
All the federal facilities of the Department of Education should be
padlocked. NOW!!!
Bard
Visit me at:
The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government
http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm
Federal Government defined:
....a benefit/subsidy protection racket!
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> Subject: SNET: WORST SCHOOLS HAVE FEWEST BOOKS [more spent on drug-abuse
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> OUR WORST SCHOOLS HAVE FEWEST BOOKS
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> By SUSAN EDELMAN
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> Many schools where fourth-graders flunked a recent state exam
> have shabby -
> if any - libraries, The Post has found.
>
> One big reason: The Board of Education, despite its $10 billion budget,
> spends a state allotment of only $4 per student on school library books.
>
> That $4 is only one-fourth the cost of the average hardcover: $16.60.
>
> Overall, city schools spend twice as much on drug-abuse programs,
> $30.41 per
> kid, as they do on library books and librarians combined - $14.81 per kid.
>
> In announcing that 67 percent of the city's schoolkids failed to meet the
> reading and writing standards of the new fourth-grade English
> Language Arts
> exam, State Education Commissioner Richard Mills reminded parents
> that every
> child should be reading at least 25 books a year.
>
> That's a struggle for youngsters in book-starved schools.
>
> "Kids need access to books," said Ray Domanico, education adviser for the
> Metro Industrial Areas Foundation, a group working in Harlem and
> other poor
> communities to beef up school libraries.
>
> "They need to be reading a lot. They need to develop a habit of
> reading. And
> many don't have books at home, so they really rely on the school library."
>
> This week, fourth-graders will face another rigorous test - New
> York's first
> statewide math exam. The three-part test will be administered today,
> Wednesday and Thursday.
>
> Last week's reading and writing exam requires kids to analyze all types of
> literature and compose essays. It was designed to prepare
> students for more
> rigorous Regents high-school exams.
>
> The library problem deeply concerns some parents and school board members.
>
> "Kids have got to have access to rich research materials - and to
> the thrill
> of research - to reach those high standards," said Ann McKinnon, a Queens
> mother who serves on the District 22 school board.
>
> City Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew has resorted to panhandling the
> public to
> help the Board of Education's poorest performers.
>
> Crew sponsors a ''Love to Read" literacy campaign, which recently ran
> newspaper ads with depressing illustrations of empty, cob-webbed
> bookshelves.
>
> "In New York City, this is as close as most third-graders get to
> 'Charlotte's Web,'" the ad said, adding that fun books "are
> absent from too
> many classrooms."
>
> In response, generous New Yorkers have coughed up $250,000 to put about 80
> books in each of nearly 1,000 classrooms - including those in the
> 97 schools
> on the list of the state's worst performers, and others in extremely poor
> neighborhoods.
>
> "We're trying to get to the most-needy schools first," said Karri
> Offstein,
> director of the drive.
>
> Meanwhile, even kids are trying to scrape pennies together for books.
>
> Third-graders at PS 137 in Bedford-Stuyvesant - where only 25.2 percent of
> fourth-graders passed the state test - held a penny drive this year to
> purchase them.
>
> They collected a grand total of $120.
>
> ''It's not much, but we'll buy paperbacks," said principal
> Carolyn Key. "You
> have to get it any way you can."
>
> A good library should have at least 10 books per child, experts say.
>
> But at PS 108, an average school in South Ozone Park, Queens - where about
> 32 percent of the fourth-graders passed the state test - the library has
> only about two books each for its 1,500 kids.
>
> "And some books are very old," said principal Gloria Petitto. "We
> try not to
> throw out unless we can replace, and there are many books that are not
> current or attractive to children."
>
> "They like the new ones, the ones that are beautifully presented. The old
> ones don't get the same circulation."
>
> At overpacked PS 246 in the Fordham-Kingsbridge section of The
> Bronx - where
> 26 percent of the fourth-graders passed the reading test - some teachers
> fill their classrooms with old books scrounged at flea markets.
>
> The school calls a small room with some computers and reference materials
> its library.
>
> "One of the big problems we have here is that parents are afraid to let
> their kids go out after school to the public library," said
> principal Frank
> Gonzalez.
> http://nypostonline.com/news/9166.htm
>
>
> Bard
>
> Visit me at:
> The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government
> http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm
>
> Federal Government defined:
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