Comments on: Senator Kay Bailey BO-ring! http://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/11/11/senator-kay-baily-bo-ring/ Delivering the Best of the New Media Since 2004. Fri, 25 May 2012 23:17:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Rebecca Bell-Metereahttp://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/11/11/senator-kay-baily-bo-ring/comment-page-1/#comment-687788 Rebecca Bell-Meterea Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:32:38 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=10921#comment-687788 Kay Bailey Hutchison has announced her goals for education, but she does not address how she would pay for these changes. She touts electronic textbooks as a cost-saving measure, but she ignores one crucial area of cost-savings for education. In terms of getting the most for our money, the method of delivery—books or electronic formats—is not as important as the actual content. If we did not have a State Board of Education that forces publishers to make special versions of textbooks for Texas students, the state could benefit from economy of scale by using the same books that most other states use. At one time, because Texas was such a large market, our book choices dictated textbooks for the nation. This is no longer true. Now, due to advances in desktop publishing, Texas can demand its own dumbed-down version of books, but we pay a steep price. These revisions cost more money and, more importantly, they rob our young people of the full, up-to-date education they need for higher education and the world of work. We need to bring true accountability to the system and give our students a 21st-education, which is why I'm running for Texas State Board of Education in District 5. -Rebecca Bell-Metereau Kay Bailey Hutchison has announced her goals for education, but she does not address how she would pay for these changes. She touts electronic textbooks as a cost-saving measure, but she ignores one crucial area of cost-savings for education. In terms of getting the most for our money, the method of delivery—books or electronic formats—is not as important as the actual content. If we did not have a State Board of Education that forces publishers to make special versions of textbooks for Texas students, the state could benefit from economy of scale by using the same books that most other states use. At one time, because Texas was such a large market, our book choices dictated textbooks for the nation. This is no longer true. Now, due to advances in desktop publishing, Texas can demand its own dumbed-down version of books, but we pay a steep price. These revisions cost more money and, more importantly, they rob our young people of the full, up-to-date education they need for higher education and the world of work. We need to bring true accountability to the system and give our students a 21st-education, which is why I'm running for Texas State Board of Education in District 5.

-Rebecca Bell-Metereau

]]> By: Ed Rasimushttp://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/11/11/senator-kay-baily-bo-ring/comment-page-1/#comment-687582 Ed Rasimus Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:43:30 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=10921#comment-687582 Poor Kay is violating the basic rule by challenging a secure incumbent of her own party and in the process jeopardizing both a TX Senate seat and the governor's position since the primary battle will sling all the mud that any Democrat could desire between the two Republicans. In that bland piece she is trying to sound "conservative" with appeals to local control, but she throws in a heavy dose of populist pap about opportunity, equality, leveling and inevitably government hand-outs. She should be sitting in a secure seat in Washington and let Perry deal with Kinky Friedman, who looks better the more this goes on! Poor Kay is violating the basic rule by challenging a secure incumbent of her own party and in the process jeopardizing both a TX Senate seat and the governor's position since the primary battle will sling all the mud that any Democrat could desire between the two Republicans.

In that bland piece she is trying to sound "conservative" with appeals to local control, but she throws in a heavy dose of populist pap about opportunity, equality, leveling and inevitably government hand-outs.

She should be sitting in a secure seat in Washington and let Perry deal with Kinky Friedman, who looks better the more this goes on!

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