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Como ele diz : Parece dificl, mas não é. Basta querermos.

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Gabriel, falta-lhe o pormenor de que fala o Bruno Alves. A liberdade de escolha e forma de financiamento que, se o AB for consequente, sabe que não pode ser como ele diz. O velho problema dos incentivos.

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Gabriel, só mais uma achega. O AB fala de financiamento de acordo com um plano trienal em que a escola está “proibida” de ultrapassar o orçamentado. Isto é ridículo. O que há mais são instituições “proibidas” de ultrapassar o orçamentado e o que fazem? Desorçamentam na contabilidade porque, como dizia o Pai da Pátria, “O dinheiro aparece”

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Lá (EUA) como cá a mesma asneira e o mesmo desastre.

The Obamas Walk Away from Public Schools

Posted by Andrew J. Coulson

A few months ago, Barack Obama told a gathering of the American Federation of Teachers that he opposes private school choice programs, adding: “We need to focus on fixing and improving our public schools; not throwing our hands up and walking away from them.”

It’s not clear whether or not the president-elect will be able to fix our public schools, and I don’t know if he’s thrown up his hands, but he and his two daughters have just walked away from the public schools. Again. When they move from Chicago to D.C., Malia and Sasha Obama will be moving from the prestigious private Lab School to the prestigious private Sidwell Friends school — Chelsea Clinton’s old stomping ground.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. In fact, it’s wonderful that the Obamas had such a broad range of public and private school choices available to them. What’s puzzling is that the president-elect opposes programs that would bring that same easy choice of schools within reach of families who lack his personal wealth. By his actions, Senator Obama is demonstrating that he is not willing to wait for his own policy prescriptions to “fix and improve” public schools, but he expects folks with less ample bank accounts to patiently await his hoped-for change.

And while many reports will no doubt trumpet the $25,000+ tuition at Sidwell Friends, implying that this is extravagantly beyond what is spent in D.C. public schools, they will be mistaken. As I wrote in the Washington Post and on this blog, D.C. public schools also spent about $25,000 per child in the 2007-08 school year.

It’s not that president-elect Obama is against spending a lot of money on other people’s kids — he’s just against letting their parents choose where that money is spent.(…)

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2008/11/21/the-obamas-walk-away-from-public-schools/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/04/AR2008040402921.html

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A Escola acabou.

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O texto do António Barreto só prova que lá pelas bandas do PS nunca se pensou muito nessa coisa da Escola. Já nos tempos dos governos se Mário Soares (com a excepção de Cardia) se empurrava para o Ministério alguém do PSD…

Não é preciso “inventar a roda”. Para se encontrarem modelos alternativos de gestão das escolas e do sistema educativo, é só levantar a cabeça e ver o que os outros fazem. De preferência, os que têm os melhores resultados no que diz respeito à integração subjacente a qualquer escolaridade obrigatória.

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