TEXAS NONPROFITS The State of Education in Texas

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TEXAS NONPROFITSThe State of Education in
Texas

• ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY THROUGH EDUCATION
• HOW TEXAS CAN GROW NEW TALENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
• Presented by Mike Moses

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY

• A great economy and great schools are synonymous.
• The public schools exist to benefit the public.
• The public benefits when the schools build good
  citizens for Texas who
• Enter to Learn. Go Forth to Serve
• Can this be done? What are the challenges?

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY WHERE WE
RANK

• 50th in
• Tax Expenditures Per Capita
• Percentage of Population over 25 with a High
  School Diploma
• Homeowners Insurance Affordability
• 49th in
• Tax Revenue Raised Per Capita
• Parks and Recreation Expenditures
• Percentage of Children Immunized
• 48th in
• Police Protection Expenditures
• 46th in
• Mental Health Expenditures
• State Aid Per Pupil

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY
WHERE WE RANK

• 45th in
• Environmental Protection
• Rate at which Citizens Receive Treatment for Drug
  and Alcohol Abuse Programs
• 44th in
• Percentage of Eligible Voters that Vote
• Home Ownership Rate
• 43rd in
• Progressiveness of Tax Revenues
• 42nd in
• Highways
• Percentage of Population with Employer-Based
  Health Insurance
• Amount of Monthly Women, Infant, and Children
  (WIC) Benefits Paid

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY
WHERE WE RANK

• 41st in
• Percentage of Eligible Voters that are Registered
• 40th in
• Current Expenditures Per Student
• 38th in
• Medicaid
• Public Elementary-Secondary Education
• Drinking Water Quality
• 35th in
• High School Graduation Rate
• Access to Adequate Prenatal Care
• 32nd in
• Average Teacher Salary
• 30th in
• Government Employee Wages and Salaries

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY
WHERE WE RANK

• 29th in
• Health Care Expenditures Per Capita
• 28th in
• Percentage of Adults with at Least a Bachelors
  Degree
• 20th in
• Rate of Motor Vehicle Fatalities
• Public Health and Hospitals
• 17th in
• Percentage of Population that Lacked Access to
  Primary care
• 14th in
• Murder and Rape Rate
• 12th in
• Percentage of School Funding from Local Revenues
• 7th in
• Sales Tax Per Capita
• 6th in
• Total Crime Rate

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY
WHERE WE RANK

• 5th in
• Percentage of Children Living in Poverty
• Teenage Birth Rate
• Consumption of Energy Per Capita
• 4th in
• Percent of Population Under 18
• 3rd in
• Rate of Incarceration
• Percentage of Uninsured Low-Income Children
• Percentage of Poor Not Covered by Medicaid
• Percentage Living Below Federal Poverty Level
• Percentage of Population that is Malnourished

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY
WHERE WE RANK

• 2nd in
• Public School Enrollment
• Birth Rate
• 1st in
• Percentage of Uninsured Children
• Percentage of Population Without Health Insurance
• Percentage of Young People (Non-Elderly) Without
  Health Insurance
• Air Pollution Emissions
• Pollution Released by Manufacturing Plants
• Amount of Toxic Chemicals Released into Water
• Number of Clean Water Permit Violations
• Amount of Hazardous Waste Generated
• Number of Registered Machine Guns
• Number of Executions

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY

• THE BIG PICTURE
• POSITIVES
• Great work done last fifteen years on behalf of
  Texas public schools Republicans, Democrats,
  TERC, TBEC, GBC and others have all made
  important contributions.
• National assessment of educational progress
• Property tax relief
• Passage of school bond issues
• Modest salary increases
• Gallup Poll indicators

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ENABLING THETEXAS ECONOMY

• THE BIG PICTURE
• NEGATIVES
• Lack of agreement on goals
• Anti-tax sentiment
• Lack of interest in the common good
• Media sensationalism
• High drop out rates
• Loss of local control-meaningful discretion
• Fads instead of money
• Excessive testing punitive accountability
  system
• Demoralized teachers

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ENABLING THETEXAS ECONOMY

• MOVING TEXAS SCHOOLS FORWARD
• 1. UNIVERSAL FUILL DAY PRE-KINDERGARTEN AND FULL
  DAY KINDERGARTEN
• Early Investments to combat
• Low birth weight babies
• Premature births
• High number of children without health insurance
  and,
• High number of children living in poverty.
• And to Avoid
• Number of citizens incarcerated
• Number of teenage pregnancies
• Number of teenage drug arrests and,
• Number of students failing to graduate.

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ENABLING THETEXAS ECONOMY

• MOVING TEXAS SCHOOLS FORWARD
• 2. Streamline and Simplify the Accountability
  System
• Implement end of course tests.
• Reconstitute a system that is rigorous and
  challenging but not demoralizing.
• Align the state system with NCLB.

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ENABLING THETEXAS ECONOMY

• MOVING TEXAS SCHOOLS FORWARD
• 3. IMPROVE AND GIVE HONOR TO TEACHING
• Differentiated salaries
• Pay for performance
• Invest in meaningful professional development
• Keep the Teacher Retirement System sound and
  treat it as a sacred trust.
• Keep TRS health care accessible and affordable.

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY

• MOVING TEXAS SCHOOLS FORWARD
• 4. Smaller Class Sizes at Junior High level and
  middle school level for academically illiterate
  students.

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ENABLING THETEXAS ECONOMY

• MOVING TEXAS SCHOLS FORWARD
• Provide Three Recommended High School Programs
• Math and Science
• Visual, Performing and Fine Arts
• Career and Technical Education

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY

• MOVING TEXAS SCHOOLS FORWARD
• Why three diplomas?
• Who will teach math and science?
• 26, 549 certificates granted last year
• Math 1, 648
• Science 1, 267

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY

• MOVING TEXAS SCHOOLS FORWARD
• Why three diplomas?
• Too many dropouts
• Too many courses seen as irrelevant by students

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY

• MOVING TEXAS SCHOOLS FORWARD
• High School Dropouts
• 100,000 students drop out of school per year in
  Texas and over 500 each day
• 61 of high school dropouts left school because
  they were bored and saw no relevancy in what they
  were studying.
• 60 were unemployed
• They live 9.2 fewer years than high school
  graduates

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY

• MOVING TEXAS SCHOOLS FORWARD
• High School Dropouts
• They are 4 times more likely to be arrested
• They have 19 times the incarceration rate of a
  college graduate
• They comprise almost 85 of the prison population
• A one year increase in the average years of
  schooling for high school dropouts would reduce
  murder and assault by almost 30, car theft by
  20 and arson by 13

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY

• MOVING TEXAS SCHOOLS FORWARD
• High School Dropouts
• They have significantly higher drug and alcohol
  abuse
• They earn only 22 as much as a professional
  degree holder and 40 of a college graduate
• Their average earnings of 22,000 per year is
  close to poverty line for family of four
• Almost 50 of heads of households are on welfare
• They have 8 times the poverty rate of college
  graduates

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY

• MOVING TEXAS SCHOOLS FORWARD
• High School Dropouts
• Their average lifetime wages are 1,000,000 less
  than a college graduate
• They are twice as likely to smoke
• Their children are more than 50 less likely to
  go to college
• They are 10 times as likely to default on a loan
• They are 57 less likely to vote

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY

• MOVING TEXAS SCHOOLS FORWARD
• Why three diplomas?
• Career and technical programs are dropout
  prevention programs
• Additional graduation programs create options
• The labor market is revealing some interesting
  data

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY

• MOVING TEXAS SCHOOLS FORWARD
• New Non Agriculture Jobs October to December
  2006
• 59,900
• Information Services 2,900
• Trade, Transportation and Utilities 3,200
• Manufacturing 7,400
• Government 8,700
• Professional and Business Services 9,300
• Education and Health 10,700
• Leisure and Hospitality 11, 800
• Construction 12,700

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY

• MOVING TEXAS SCHOOLS FORWARD
• Should we be surprised at a high dropout rate?
• With so many second language learners
• Fewer and fewer choices for students
• A higher bar every year with a rapidly growing
  economically disadvantaged population
• Is there a disconnect between the labor market
  and what reformers are demanding of schools?

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMY

• MOVING TEXAS SCHOOLS FORWARD
• Have the reforms of sanctions and one size fits
  all graduation requirements during the last
  fifteen years produced well balanced good
  citizens for Texas?
• Do we like what our schools have become?
• Are we boldest and grandest? Can we do better?
  Who is in charge?

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ENABLING THE TEXAS ECONOMYThe Spirit of
the people is disclosed by the education it
provides to its youth.

• A child is a person who is going to carry on
  what you have started. He is going to sit where
  you are sitting, and when you are gone, attend to
  those things which you think are important. You
  may adopt all the policies you please, but how
  they are carried out depends on him. He will
  assume control of your cities, states, and
  nations. He is going to move in and take over
  your churches, schools, universities, and
  corporations. All your books are going to be
  judged, praised, or condemned by him. The fate of
  humanity is in his hands.
• Abraham Lincoln