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This just in. Stupid in Utah: How the Utah State Office of Education hurts kids and teachers
Utah's Red Meat Radio will take a new twist on Saturday Morning, December 6, as host Senator Howard Stephenson unveils mismanagement and deceit in Utah Public Education.
This special edition of Red Meat Radio is entitled "Stupid in Utah: How the Utah State Office of Education hurts kids and teachers." Stephenson says he's had a gut full of the subversive acts to overturn the legislature's education reforms by the bloated 500-plus employee organization and will give specific examples of how too many career bureaucrats don't give a damn about the law, education improvement, or providing teachers the tools they need to do their jobs. He will show case by case how the educrats work to prevent money from reaching the classroom and how they try to punish the most qualified and highest performing classroom teachers.
Tune in Saturday Morning from 8 - 10 a.m. on K-TALK AM630 or listen online at http://www.k-talk.com/
Those who miss the live broadcast can listen online later at http://redmeatradio.blogspot.com/ [UPDATE, 12/6/08] The podcasts are online. Hour #1 (8 a.m. to 9 a.m.)
Hour #2 (9 a.m. to 10 a.m.)
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13 Comments:
Dayum!
In lieu of public media diatribes, I want to invite all legislators to feel free to speak with members of the State Board of Education on this issue. It's incredibly rare that legislators condescend to attend meetings of the Board, and only once do I recall a legislator participating in the public comment period; input from legislators in open meeting on the issues we're addressing is incredibly rare.
It would be nice to respond specifically to the senator's concerns, but I can only speculate he wishes to respond to the Trib article (11/29/2008 by Gehrke) and copies of his correspondence [1] [2] they posted.
I don't wish to speak for the Board, but I can confidently state the senator has not raised these concerns with me.
Unfortunately, I believe the primary consequence of the broadcast will be less willingness by USOE to work with the Senator on issues rather than more.
Wouldn't the Board have to have some money to spend before they could stop it from reaching the classrooms? And as for the Radio Show, is anyone taking this Saturday Morning Chunk of Insubstantial Dialog and Enthusiastic Back-Patting seriously? (Other than the hosts themselves, of course) I know I'm not.
Howard needs an enema.
It is ironic that lobbyist/Senator Stephenson would title his broadcast "Stupid in Utah" just a couple weeks after he and Hughes made fools of themselves by declaring Thomas Jefferson the second president of the United States.
Red Meat Radio -- Stupid In Utah.
Indeed.
When will Stephenson understand that technology in our schools will have much more return on taxpayers' money in the classroom if teachers are trained to fully utilize it? This costs money.
Are our favorite conservatives once again "kicking the cat" because they're mad at the Trib?
Oh, I know! They're getting in their last bit of inappropriate and unstatesmanlike behavior before they're not allowed to anymore once ethics reform is approved!
Senator Stephenson is doing us all a disservice by acting like a bully. Our state faces some big challenges right now, and if they are going to be solved, it will be by statesmanship, not by this kind of arrogance.
How can someone who co-chairs the Public Education Joint Appropriation Subcommittee and sits on the Senate's Standing Education Committee spew such animosity towards public education? Does anyone in public education stand a chance if they testify before a committee on which Mr. Stephenson sits? This open warfare is an embarrassment. Such action should not be tolerated by any statesman. If his colleagues do not censure him, they support his actions.
Look at it from his perspective - the honest intent of elected representatives thwarted by unelected state employees.
I think he has a right to make his case to the people of Utah. Sure, he gets a little bugged. Every normal citizen who has ever run afoul of a petty bureaucrat understands how he got that way.
Gus,
The BOE hasn't been supportive enough of his efforts to funnel loads of our state's education money to his lobbying clients.
That's how he got that way.
Lobbyists shouldn't also be legislators.
Hell of an accusation, Jeremy. Why do you think any of the people involved are his clients?
Hey Anon,
How if we just call it a well-founded guess instead of an accusation?
The fact that Stephenson has such an obvious conflict of interest as a lobbyist in our legislature leaves him far more open to such suggestions than many other legislators wouldn't you say?
The Accountability blog has a nice comment on Senator Stephenson's radio show. I'm still trying to maintain the hope that all Utah's legislators will behave with dignity so haven't listened to it myself.
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