Panter Forum on..Paid for segregation

[fiberisgoodforyou]

This should be interesting!!!!

Paid for segrigation! Come on Tom Baldwin, nows your chance!!!

Panter Hosts Forum on Regional Contribution Agreement (RCA)

Assemblyman Mike Panter will host a meeting, in coordination with the Freehold Township Committee, to discuss the potential elimination of Regional Contribution Agreements (RCA's) as a method of satisfying a municipality's affordable housing obligation under state law. RCAs are legal agreements that allows a town to pay another community to assume its affordable housing.

Legislation has been introduced at the state level which would eliminate affordable housing RCA's between municipalities. In place of RCA's, A- 3857 would transfer money from the Neighborhood Preservation Non-lapsing Revolving Fund in an amount of not less than $15,000,000 per year into a Housing Rehabilitation Assistance Fund.

"Before this proposal begins to move through the legislative process, I would like to hear the views of elected officials from the municipalities that I represent," Panter said, calling the issue very important.

The meeting will take place on Wednesday, July 26 at 7PM and will be held at the Freehold Township Municipal Building, located at 1 Municipal Plaza,

[fiberisgoodforyou]

DOES RCA CONTRIBUTE TO....

Recent editorials from New Jersey newspapers
7/3/2007, 6:17 p.m. EDT
The Associated Press

(AP) — Sunday's (July 1) Record of Bergen County on the Supreme Court's decision on voluntary school integration:

Last week's U.S. Supreme Court's ruling striking down voluntary school integration in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., is a step backward.

Racial diversity in the nation's classrooms, as in its communities, is a worthy and essential goal. Children of all races are harmed when they grow up isolated and have little experience interacting with other children who are different from them.

New Jersey's schools are among the most segregated in the nation — even with state laws and court rulings in place that say school segregation is illegal and the state has a responsibility to end it. It is too early to say what effect, if any, the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling will have on schools in North Jersey.

But it is clear that the direction toward integration since the landmark ruling of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 has been reversed.

Ten years later, Teaneck became the first school district in the nation to voluntarily integrate without a court order. In the years since, Teaneck has worked to achieve racial balance in its schools by slightly altering school boundaries when necessary. But now, more than three-quarters of the district's student population is minority, and many white families in Teaneck are Orthodox and send their children to private schools.

In 2004, the New Jersey Supreme Court denied predominantly white North Haledon's wish to leave Manchester Regional High School, saying it would create an unacceptable racial imbalance at the high school. A lawyer for North Haledon said previously the U.S. Supreme Court's decision would not override the state court, but last week's ruling is now being reviewed by the district.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling falls along predictable conservative-liberal lines, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing the majority opinion and Justice Stephen Breyer the dissent. Justice Anthony Kennedy, while voting with the majority, wrote a concurring opinion that would not completely forbid schools from taking race into account. Kennedy wrote that the ruling "is too dismissive of the legitimate interest government has in ensuring all people have equal opportunity regardless of their race."
Breyer wrote the ruling "is a decision that the court and the nation will come to regret."

Incentives to integrate the nation's schools would not be necessary if racism itself did not exist. Certainly, the promise of Brown v. Board of Education has not been fulfilled. The quality of education for many low-income minority children in highly segregated schools remains abysmal.

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ONE WOULD ARGUE THAT RCA RECIPIENT COMMUNITIES, NEED THE STATE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO THE RCA COMMUNITIES SCHOOLS!!!

Good Instruction Not Enough For Low-Income Students

Providing comprehensive instruction by quality teachers is all it takes to raise the famously dire reading scores of low-income schools, right?

Wrong.
www.fpg.unc.edu/~snapshots/snap47.pdf

A new study realeased by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that school and classroom characteristics have a greater affect on the reading development of individual children than familial background, the amount of reading done at home or even the quality of literacy instruction in the classroom. Notably, children from "minority segregated schools," those with minority populations of at least 75 percent, experience significant significant reading deficits, even when the latter factors are controlled for.
Tracking reading development in 1,913 economically disadvantaged children, researchers found that the higher the percentage of struggling readers in a classroom, the stronger the negative impact on every student's reading performance. Children in kindergarten and first grade attending classrooms with higher percentages of students reading below grade level showed constrained performance in reading at the end of each of their first two years in school. Benefits of comprehensive literacy instruction were seemingly erased.

The results of this study lend themselves to pose questions for further research. Why does reading performance go down as the percentage of minority students in a classroom rises, even if instruction and participation outside the home are adequate? If children who perform poorly or extremely well in a specific academic area are "tracked" does that do a disservice to all students?

They also put something of a wrench in programs such as those implemented under the No Child Left Behind Act which primarily at raising levels of instruction and accountability. Rather, these results show that more comprehensive programs which aim not only at improving instruction, but also at eliminating concentration of low readerswill be necessary for disadvantaged children to meet reading standards.

[admin]

The above is exactly why I support the abolishment of the Freehold Elementary schools and merging with the Township. I see no other solution coming down the road.

[fiberisgoodforyou]

admin said:

[The above is exactly why I support the abolishment of the Freehold Elementary schools and merging with the Township. I see no other solution coming down the road.

WATCH YOUR TAXES THEN....70% OF THE TOWNSHIPS PROP TAX GOES TO SCHOOLS!!!

we have taken on the highest per capita RCA housing in the county, number three (again per capita) in the state.....

These facts should have been argued by our Mayor and School Board IN TRENTON,

Ohhh I forgot, the St Rose Mayor NEVER wore a Yellow Shirt, and went to bat for our PUBLIC SCHOOLS in Trenton. Then again, why bother when there is no opposition candidate, so guess he's off the hook!

I guess the performance of the public schools is no reflection on the community...anyone in real estate like to comment on this?

[admin]

Fiber you are probably right about the tax increase. I am thinking long term on this one. All solutions so far have been short sighted.

Let us face it, the school population consists of a large percentage of children born to illegal immigrants. Why shouldn't the surrounding towns, who attract the work force, also help with the education of those kids? It is also for the good of those kids. If the current trends continue, this will be a VERY segregated school system. That will not be good for these kids.

The illegal immigrant parents can not vote, so how do you think future votes are going to go in the next few years? If we see another yes vote, it will be amazing. The schools got the one and only yes vote from me that they will ever likely see.

Speaking of yellow shirts, why weren't there immigrant parents wearing them? Forget the Mayor. The immigrant parents, and especially the advocates, lost a very good opportunity to unite and help move this town ahead.

But why do something positive when you can have a dopey rally that only hurts the town.

[richardkelsey]

admin said:

The above is exactly why I support the abolishment of the Freehold Elementary schools and merging with the Township. I see no other solution coming down the road.

I am more likely to move to Freehold, buy a home on Avenue C, join the democrat party, become a public defender, spend weekends delivering the magazine Clocktower, and push for amnesty for illegal aliens than the chances of having Freehold Township absorb Freehold Borough Schools voluntarily.

That will never happen --- ever.

[fiberisgoodforyou]

fiberisgoodforyou said:

admin said:

[The above is exactly why I support the abolishment of the Freehold Elementary schools and merging with the Township. I see no other solution coming down the road.

WATCH YOUR TAXES THEN....70% OF THE TOWNSHIPS PROP TAX GOES TO SCHOOLS!!!

we have taken on the highest per capita RCA housing in the county, number three (again per capita) in the state.....

These facts should have been argued by our Mayor and School Board IN TRENTON,

Ohhh I forgot, the St Rose Mayor NEVER wore a Yellow Shirt, and went to bat for our PUBLIC SCHOOLS in Trenton. Then again, why bother when there is no opposition candidate, so guess he's off the hook!

I guess the performance of the public schools is no reflection on the community...anyone in real estate like to comment on this?

Then again, and in all fairness, neither did Frank LLA Fyrer or the LLA.... not a word from them about our Schools Either, not a word from them about RCA and the Paid for Segregations, not a Word about our schools, not a word about the overcrowding or the quality of education, or the Funding Issues...50-60% of the student body is Latino, and the "LATINO" Alliance was SILENT!

Education must not be on their agenda!

a signal that bullying the Boro council is all they are capable of, and the BIGGER ISSUES, STATE ISSUES the cowered from...not a word, not a letter or support from the LLA to our DOE.

Like a Kodak Commercial, we see your true colors!

[fiberisgoodforyou]

admin said:

Fiber you are probably right about the tax increase. I am thinking long term on this one. All solutions so far have been short sighted.

Let us face it, the school population consists of a large percentage of children born to illegal immigrants. Why shouldn't the surrounding towns, who attract the work force, also help with the education of those kids? It is also for the good of those kids. If the current trends continue, this will be a VERY segregated school system. That will not be good for these kids.

The illegal immigrant parents can not vote, so how do you think future votes are going to go in the next few years? If we see another yes vote, it will be amazing. The schools got the one and only yes vote from me that they will ever likely see.

Speaking of yellow shirts, why weren't there immigrant parents wearing them? Forget the Mayor. The immigrant parents, and especially the advocates, lost a very good opportunity to unite and help move this town ahead.

But why do something positive when you can have a dopey rally that only hurts the town.

"Forget the Mayor." Your right, he is the Chief Executive of the Boro, Forget him? Good One Brian!!!!

[admin]

fiberisgoodforyou said:

admin said:

Fiber you are probably right about the tax increase. I am thinking long term on this one. All solutions so far have been short sighted.

Let us face it, the school population consists of a large percentage of children born to illegal immigrants. Why shouldn't the surrounding towns, who attract the work force, also help with the education of those kids? It is also for the good of those kids. If the current trends continue, this will be a VERY segregated school system. That will not be good for these kids.

The illegal immigrant parents can not vote, so how do you think future votes are going to go in the next few years? If we see another yes vote, it will be amazing. The schools got the one and only yes vote from me that they will ever likely see.

Speaking of yellow shirts, why weren't there immigrant parents wearing them? Forget the Mayor. The immigrant parents, and especially the advocates, lost a very good opportunity to unite and help move this town ahead.

But why do something positive when you can have a dopey rally that only hurts the town.

"Forget the Mayor." Your right, he is the Chief Executive of the Boro, Forget him? Good One Brian!!!!

I did not mean that in a hostile way! Yes, it would have been great and right to have the Mayor with us.

My point is what you stated about the LLA and Casa Freehold. Where were they in helping the yellow shirts? Too much silence from them when it matters. Lost opportunity for them.