College of the Redwoods Trustees vote to Support the Largest Education Facilities Bond in State History
Press release from The College of the Redwoods:
The College of the Redwoods Board of Trustees voted on a resolution to support Proposition 13 at their February 4th meeting. Proposition 13 is the Schools and Colleges Facilities Bond, and is the largest education facilities bond in state history. The Bond will invest $15 billion in making California children safer and school buildings healthy, safe and conducive to learning. Of that $15 billion, $2 billion will be spent on California community colleges.
“CR has worked very hard to keep college affordable for our community,” says Danny Kelley, Vice President of the CR Board of Trustees. “We have deferred maintenance on older buildings to keep tight budgets balanced year after year. We are asking our students and community to support this ballot initiative on March 3rd to provide our campus with access to a portion of $2B in facility renovation funding. Our administration is committed to finding a mix of creative funding sources including matching grant programs.”
The CR Trustees and the Chancellor’s Office want to remind voters that California community colleges are the largest provider of workforce training in the nation. Seven in 10 of California’s nurses receive their training at a California community college. Eight in 10 of California’s police officers, firefighters, and EMTs are trained at a California community college. One in 4 community college students in the nation attend a California community college.
The Chancellor’s Office reports that each $1 billion in school facility infrastructure investments creates 17,000 middle class jobs. They add that Proposition 13 will not raise State taxes, and state matching funds will reduce the need for additional local property taxes for college facilities.
The College of the Redwoods Board of Trustees voted on a resolution to support Proposition 13 at their February 4th meeting. Proposition 13 is the Schools and Colleges Facilities Bond, and is the largest education facilities bond in state history. The Bond will invest $15 billion in making California children safer and school buildings healthy, safe and conducive to learning. Of that $15 billion, $2 billion will be spent on California community colleges.
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Thank god we have such caring politicians who spend their days figuring out how to tax us more. “It won’t raise state taxes” yup, it just further increases the cost of living in California.
“Whatever it is, I’m against it.”
(Groucho Marx)
I 💯 agree with mike. This poster child of a socialistic state is a complete failure with it only getting worse……. well….. only for law abiding,tax paying working class citizens. Criminals, illegals, welfare recipients and junkies are loving this sh!t! Progressiveness? I’ll let you decide.
This “poster child of a socialistic state” has the 6th largest economy in the world. Larger than Great Britain. Some 3 trillion dollars a year. 10% of the Fortune 1000 are headquartered here and we grow over half of the fruit and vegetables in the country. I think we’re doing just fine.
California pays for the welfare of southern and rustbelt republican states.
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/
That’s right Dave, but it won’t stay that way if voters are tricked into voting for this abomination of a Trojan horse proposition. Look deeper into the facts.
just a note to say that this comment is coming from another Kelley.
Under the 1978 Prop 13 still goes up every year by 2%. Since it’s inception, the turn over rate and building of new houses, apartments and commercial buildings has risen exponentially. So when politicians decry “Prop 13 has made us broke” – it’s bullshit. What they mean is “Prop 13makes it harder for us to pad our pensions”
Key phrase: “will REDUCE [emphasis added] the need for additional local property taxes…” I already pay for the SHUSD (local school) 2010 GO bond and the 2005/2007 CR GO bond on my property tax bill. The interest on bonds must be paid for, either by property, or state income, taxes. This is a huge bond issue. A noble sounding cause, but I have yet to hear an unequivocal statement that it will not raise local or state taxes.
Not only will your property taxes increase, your insurance will as well due to increased assessment of your property. VOTE NO!
25 years ago, I sent my children through private schools. The poor quality of public schools, and the government’s sanctioning of paying the poor to fill up the state with legions of further poor generations, through AFDC, Medi-Cal, Food Stamps and other wasteful, seemingly unlimited social programs, resulting in crowded, low-functioning schools, that no thinking person would want their children to attend.
Since I paid personally, to keep my kids away from public schools, sent them to private high schools and private universities, I hope nobody will mind if I vote no on any social program, and any school bond at all.
Public schools, in California, are a wreckage of bad policy, poor hiring practices, bad administrators, and wasteful process. Teachers find they are overrun, students are of very poor quality and achievement, and, that the entire system is maintained as “free baby sitting”, without significant value to the student.
Save your money, which the state will be happy to waste on welfare payments, poor quality schools, and badly conceived social programs…
If you have children, invest in them privately, buy the best education you can afford! Public schools are a bad deal, nearly as bad as maintaining a system where the poor can reproduce uncontrolled, at the public’s cost.
Funny, there was no problem funding schools back in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s, when we thought we’d be fighting WW3 in space and everyone was going to need to learn trigonometry to calculate missile flightpaths. After the Reagan Revolution, suddenly tax cuts for the rich became the priority. When I went to EHS in the late 90’s, all of our science equipment was from the 60’s and 70’s. Probably still is.
Public schools got trashed in service of the ultrarich, who hoard their wealth away in offshore accounts. Most private schools are little more than undercover churches, cults and money laundering operations (but I repeat myself.)
Jaekelopterus – I agree with you. I recall us having the best schools in the country in 50’s, 60’s and 70’s until the Reagan devolution, the cause of most of our homeless and education problems right now. As a state, we decided that we aren’t responsible for being our brother’s keeper and that our brother’s problems were their own. Who knew that the Republican Party would become a cult supported by Russia and Corporate America and a refuge for primarily criminals of one sort or another? Someone has to take care of the sexual deviants of the world and the fundamentalist Christians of the world and the rich seems to think that is just fine.
My kids also didn’t go to the public system until 9th grade (in part because living in a rural area with no bus system made the local public school difficult to access) …but, I vote to support a system that provides the next engineers for the freeway I’ll drive on, the next doctors for the medical needs I will have, the next store clerks that count my change, the next librarians for others who love books. I want our public school system to be the best it can be because we all benefit when the level of education of everyone is the best we can afford.
Please Kim, investigate further! Starting with businesses this will raise taxes and eventually take away the safeguards of the real proposition 13. Our tax rates will go through the roof and many will not be able to own a home in this state. This is a slippery slope, please look further. Your word resonates with people, don’t mislead them. Thank you for your time.
First, her name is Kym. Second, if you’d add your last initial, since you and I spell ‘Kelley’ the same way, that would be helpful to the readers. and lastly, the posting is a press release from College of the Redwoods, not a statement of opinion nor a researched article by Red Headed Blackbelt.
Thanks Kelley for clarification. Missing from the “press release” is an explanation of exactly where the money will come from… It does not just appear from thin air, for the use of schools, 15 Billion Dollars has to come from somewhere, and it is probably not enough money to do a decent job of improving and expanding schools, anyway…
The idea that Junior Colleges graduate so may nurses, police officers and EMT’s is interesting, but to me it is a testimony to the degrading of quality in these employment fields. Nurses come out of JC’s, and then work for a while, become BSN’s, by going to State Colleges, and then become NP’s in yet another coursework. These “nurses with prescription pads”, are taking over medical practice, in many locations, and laws are proposed to give them more latitude, more scope of practice! So, you can attend a Community College, and end up “practicing medicine”, and the Doctors Ms Kemp relies upon to come from public schools, do not exist, or are educated in other countries!
The “dumbing-down” of professions and Universities both is a result of the poor quality schools operated by our governments! The general lack of policemen, and
nurses and doctors, is again a sign that our schools are failing us!
And, Jaekelopterus, the private schools can be run by churches, but children can be taught that it is their choice whether or not to practice religion, as a part of a healthy education, and the discipline and pride, instilled by these organizations and their schools, discipline and pride are the two aspects of personal life that our public schools fail to instill in children! Parents, likewise, fail miserably to teach self-respect, respect for life, law, and property, and common decency and sobriety, and also fail to teach people to love their neighbors and cooperate with others. All these traits are missing in many modern folk, and many of these traits were taught in school, 40-50 years ago.
The difference between now, and the 50’s and 60’s, is costs, salaries, and the increased lifestyles that everyone has expectation of, along with the ever widening chasm between those that have enough, and those who don’t. The pressures of huge populations of newly-spawned poor, immigrants, and folks who have migrated to California for “the good life”, have further eroded the qualities of schools, which were actually pretty poor even in the 60’s. During the 60’s, there were “enrichment programs”, which separated the children of educated and professional parents, from the rest of the kids. This is illegal now, but, the separations improved the experiences of many children, back then… There also used to be some male teachers, instead of the 75%+ women in elementary education!
California schools, even with another 15 billion bucks, will probably not improve much, but the upwardly mobile, the hard workers, the focused and the well-parented, will probably succeed in spite of the poor quality education and the overrun educators which exist now.
I certainly hope teachers will be paid more, and that there will be more of them hired, that the state will endeavor to employ with diversity, and that teaching will return to being a respected and respectable profession.
Dear Kelley Lincoln,
First, thank you so much for pointing out the misspelling of Kym’s name. I’m glad she has followers that are so diligent.
Second, you’ll have to live with my name the way it is.
Third, my comment was for “Kym”. Since she has made a personal comment I am interested to see what her take on the proposition is after further study if she chooses to do it. If you own a home you may want to look further as well, the long term effect could well be devastating to many, I know it will be to us.
Have a great evening.
Kelley with no last initial,
I was responding to Jesus, Chris. He said, “Public schools are a bad deal, nearly as bad as maintaining a system where the poor can reproduce uncontrolled, at the public’s cost.”
I wasn’t advocating for this particular proposition. Sadly, I am way behind on my studying for the coming election. I can’t seem to get it through my head that it isn’t in June like it has been in the past.
I remember the last kerfuffle over Arcata High teachers sayng that they should get a higher salary because there was money in the budget not spent. Maybe what is needed is a change in perspective that saving for expenses, such as maintenance that is inevitable going to be needed, does not mean there is a pot of money itching to be spent. There should not be such a thing as deferred maintenance- at least for long.
There are 2 general obligation bonds for CR on my property tax bill now. With two additional school bonds for Eureka City Schools and one local school. I will never be around to see any of them finish being paid off. And people who have bought these bonds, receiving income on them, pay no taxes on it. And people wonder why there’s a “wealth gap.”
This is very typical of politically savvy politicians writing a proposition. Make no mistake this is a repeal of the original proposition 13 that projected homeowners from skyrocketing taxes. This really isn’t about helping education because, similar to the lottery, current state money offered to education will suddenly be diverted to other areas of the budget, leaving education begging for more money down the road.
Those who send their children to private schools may not be the fortunate few that they believe themselves to be. The quality of a private school education isn’t necessarily superior to that of a public one although the teacher-student ratio is generally better in a private school.
For example, many private schools do not employ state licensed educators nor are college degrees even required ! And as noted in one of the above posts, some of these institutions are just thinly-disguised religious organizations. They might be described more accurately as “Sunday School”.
The vast majority of our future engineers, scientists, physicians, attorneys – and yes, teachers – are educated in public school systems. These professionals will determine our future way of life and the future of our nation.
Like climate change, you might not be around to witness the results but your children will. Short-changing public education is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Publicly Educated
Senior Staff Engineer (retired)
Westinghouse Marine Division
Space Systems (formerly Ford Aerospace)
Watkins-Johnson
You’re wrong and should do your homework. This proposition will open Pandora’s box in this state and home ownership will become taxed to insurmountable levels for most people. Your career titles mean nothing and you subvert the facts. The state is not being truthful with the residents. This has nothing to do with public education.
Just a note to say the above comment is coming from another Kelley
Yes, it is.
I am also educated in public schools, attended UC Davis, and had a long career in a professional field.
Some have the advantage of parents who stay married and who have high standards and expectations for their children. I agree that some private schools can be poor, and are mostly used to isolate children of persons who practice certain religions.
You need to be an advocate for the education of your children! If this means paying for a school that fits your needs, then it’s your choice!
In general, public schools need to improve, but I lack confidence that publicly administrated entities are capable of evolution and improvement.
On the other hand a good student, from solid background, carefully monitored, may find success, even in a public school. Excellent parenting can replace many things in a poor environment, but, if I had children, today, I would go with Catholic Schools, all the way…
(I am not Catholic.)
Buy the best you can, for your children, and believe the government at your peril…
It is also interesting that the school where I attended, K-5, is materially unaltered from the time is was constructed in the 1950’s… Constructing new schools should make them safer, and serve to prepare our communities for a future of poor quality education…
The above referenced school, that I attended from 1957-1966, is one of the ones I rejected for my own children, although I happened to live close by to it, in 1991.
CR wants more money… so why would they NOT support something that would give them more? Not really much of a story after all. Had they came out against it… now that would be a story worth reading… in my opinion.