Legislator Accountability Now! or No More Legislatively Neglected Schools. | BustED Pencils

Legislator Accountability Now! or No More Legislatively Neglected Schools. | BustED Pencils:

Legislator Accountability Now! or No More Legislatively Neglected Schools.

Before Christmas I posted an open letter to state senator Robin Voss and in that letter I proposed legislator accountability.  I received some positive feedback but not a single legislator (Republican or Democrat) drafted legislative language or even publicly acknowledged the idea.

At both AB #1 and SB #1 hearings multiple people provided testimony that pointed specifically to the legislature and that the individuals that comprise the legislature are the ones truly accountable to children in public schools.  The legislature creates the conditions in which public schools thrive or starve or simply suffer decades of purposeful neglect and budgetary torture.

Well, since nothing has happened on the legislator accountability front we now have another blatant piece of evidence—at least for education policy—that legislators must be held accountable for their constitutional responsibility to public schools.

Today,

The chief sponsor of the school accountability bill in the Assembly, Education Committee Chairman Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, told The Associated Press on Thursday that he’s now looking at requiring failing schools to choose from a variety of sanctions.

And the rest of the story should read,

Immediately after putting forth this proposal Representative Thiesfeldt was sanctioned under the legislator accountability act that forbids legislators from introducing 

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