Greetings

Greetings, Linda Fandel, Governor Branstad's Education Assistant and DE Director, Jason Glass—

The following table shows projections in red for A 75% TOTAL INCREASE IN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT FOR 0NLY $56 MILLION!! This is based on Tea Party spending acumen, not ISEA teacher union reckless spending. The Cedar Rapids school district just spent over $40 million for a Taj Mahal for evil school administrators.

The table below shows projections for various education fixes and non-fixes—including the useless July 25-26 Education Summit.

The second table below shows the costs of failed past education fixes, perpetrated by constructivists such as yourselves, and the evil ISEA teacher’s union—who are now perpetrating the Education Summit.

Since you have no measurable objectives, no projections and no numbers at all, you ought to find the tables most revealing and useful. Sum the numbers in red, and you will see a 75% total increase in student achievement produced by de-certifying the ISEA teacher’s union and by adopting Judy Hintz’s proven curriculum and instruction methods—for a total 5 year cost of only $56 million!!!

Insecure, control freak teachers and administrators, who are obsessed with money—will immediately change course and listen to Judy Hintz, at Educational Resources in West Des Moines, once they have lost the security of the ISEA teacher’s union, that guarantees pay raises for their failures to educate our kids, shown in the 10 YEAR CHART AND 70 YEAR CHART farther below.

Teacher and administrator jobs will depend on continuously improved student achievement.

With Judy’s methods, students will master reading and math in elementary grades, so well they will excel in all subjects, in the upper grades as well!!

RANKINGS & NUMBERS PROJECTING COSTS AND RESULTS OF VARIOUS EDUCATION ‘FIXES’ & NON ‘FIXES’

HINTZ METHODS AND ISEA DECERTIFICATION SHOW 75% INCREASE IN IA STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT FOR $56 MILLION

DE-CERTIFYING ISEA TEACHER UNION PRODUCES GREATEST IMPROVEMENT IN IOWA STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT. ONLY 7 OF 25 EDUCATION 'INVESTMENTS' WILL PRODUCE ACCEPTABLE RETURNS!
NET RETURN ON INVESTMENT RANK	STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IMPROVEMENT RANK	DESCRIPTION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL FIXES SUGGESTED BY VARIOUS SOURCES	% TOTAL IMPROVEMENT IN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT OF VALUE, FOR FIRST 5 YEARS	ESTIMATED TOTAL COST FOR FIRST 5 YEARS	NET RETURN ON FIRST 5 YEARS' FINANCIAL INVESTMENT
1	12	LESS STATE GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT	3%	$0	100%
2	13	LESS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT	2%	$0	100%
3	16	STOP BLAMING SCHOOL FAILURES ON PARENTS, WHO THEMSELVES WERE EDUCATED IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS	1%	$0	100%
4	1	DECERTIFY ISEA TEACHER UNION	45%	$1,000,000	90%
5	5	STRONGLY EMPHASIZING AND IMPLEMENTING INTERACTIVE TV TEACHING AND TEACHERS	8%	$5,000,000	40%
6	2	LISTENING TO AND IMPLEMENTING THE FIXES SUCCESSFULLY PRACTICED BY JUDY HINTZ, AT EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN WEST DES MOINES	30%	$55,000,000	35%
7	4	ADOPTING AND APPLYING 2004 MANHATTAN TEACHABILITY INDEX AND CHARTS SHOWING STUDENTS ARE TEACHABLE--DESPITE PUBLIC SCHOOL'S, CONSTRUCTIVISTS AND ISEA TEACHER UNION CLAIMING THEY ARE NOT.	8%	$25,000,000	7%
8	8	LONGER SCHOOL YEAR WITH MORE PAY FOR TEACHERS	4%	$75,000,000	5%
9	9	BROADER SUBJECT OFFERING	4%	$76,000,000	5%
10	7	GREATLY INCREASING SCHOOL CHOICE	4%	$4,000,000	3%
11	3	GREATLY INCREASING THE NUMBER OF CHARTER SCHOOLS	8%	$7,000,000	2%
12	6	INDIVIDUAL LEARNING PLANS FOR EVERY STUDENT	5%	$11,000,000	1%
13	11	PAY FOR PERFORMANCE	3%	$7,000,000	1%
14	17	EXPECTED RESULTS OF BRANSTAD'S EDUCATION SUMMIT	0%	$0	0%
15	21	FOUR TRACK SYSTEM EMPHASIZING OPTIONS FOR LEAVING HIGH SCHOOL TWO YEARS EARLY FOR JOB TRAINING.	0%	$0	0%
16	10	ADOPTING K12.COM TEACHING SYSTEM	3%	$85,000,000	-5%
17	15	TEACHER PEER AND STUDENT REVIEWS	1%	$4,000,000	-60%
18	14	LONGER SCHOOL YEAR	1%	$25,000,000	-75%
19	18	RESULTS OF BRANSTAD'S HIRING OF LINDA FANDEL AS SPECIAL EDUCATION ASSISTANT & HER BAD INFLUENCE.	0%	$5,000,000	-100%
20	19	BRANSTAD'S RE-ADOPTION OF PHASE III TEACHER TRAINING, THAT FAILED PREVIOUSLY	0%	$210,000,000	-100%
21	20	HIGHER TEACHER PAY	0%	$75,000,000	-100%
22	22	FORMING STATEWIDE EDUCATION COUNCIL	0%	$6,000,000	-100%
23	23	MORE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT	0%	$8,000,000	-100%
24	24	PRE SCHOOL	0%	$75,000,000	-100%
25	25	RESULTS OF BRANSTAD'S APPOINTMENT OF JASON GLASS AS DE DIRECTOR	-2%	$90,000,000	-100%
26	26	DES MOINES REGISTER FIXES, INCLUDING DUMB THE TESTS AND KEEP TWO SETS OF SCHOOL BOOKS	-2%	$150,000,000	-100%
27	27	MORE STATE GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT	-2%	$35,000,000	-100%
Anyone Claiming to Have Better Numbers is Asked to Provide Them!

There have been NO successes produced by constructivist educrats and the ISEA teacher’s union.

THE CHART SHOWS THE DAMAGE THE CONSTRUCTIVIST ISEA TEACHER’S UNION IS DOING TO IOWA AND OUR KIDS

77% PROFICIENCY MEANS 23% OF IOWA’S 11^TH GRADERS ARE READING AT OR BELOW THE 9^TH GRADE LEVEL!!

BECAUSE IOWA ADOPTED THE 40TH NATIONAL PERCENTILE RANK AS THE STATE STANDARD

Constructivists and the ISEA teacher’s union have ruined Iowa’s public schools, and are now running the Education Summit.

Highly experienced educator, Dr. Sue Atkinson had this to say about the above presentation. Iowalive estimates that expelling constructivists from Iowa classrooms, as Dr. Sue advocates, would further increase student achievement by 15%, within 5 years.

"Two major challenges will prevent constructivists from jumping right on a fix that will actually achieve results:

1) Constructivists do not know what a world quality education looks like because they, themselves, have not had one AND they believe in defective students even though such student have normal IQS;

2) Constructivists do not want to give up control of education (even though they are proven failures at it)

It will be up to the state to decertify any teacher training programs that use constructivist theory and not allow these individuals in Iowa classrooms. REMEMBER that constructivists were given 13 years (in the NCLB legislation) to bring students up to grade level. They spent that entire time trying to reverse this accountability (instead of figuring out how to effectively teach all normal students to grade level). Constructivists are proven failures and cannot be trusted to bring education up to world standards.

Speaking of world standards, why are only the NAEP test results being cited for this upcoming Education Summit? Why are comparisons not being made to world standards?"

EDUCATION FIXES THAT FAILED WASTED $178 BILLION, AS OF 9-11-09
DESCRIPTION OF EDUCATION FIX FAILURES	ESTIMATED NET, TOTAL WASTE, AS OF 9-11-09. (BILLIONS)
HIGHER TEACHER PAY	$91.0
STATE AID TO SCHOOLS	$33.0
AEAs	$22.2
SPECIAL EDUCATION	$11.3
NEW MATH	$5.3
PHASES I, II & III TEACHER TRAINING	$5.3
SMALLER CLASS SIZE	$4.4
WHOLE LANGUAGE	$3.1
MANDATORY KINDERGARTEN	$1.4
TEACHER-IN-SERVICE DAYS	$1.1
TOTAL	$178.1