Helping schools and business shake hands

This article describes the School-Business Partnerships of Long Island (SBPLI), a not-for-profit private organization. The organization develops partnerships between Long Island business firms and public schools on Long Island. The article describes the program as an apprenticeship program similar in context to journeyman programs conducted by the building trades. In fact, however, the programs described in the article are more closely related to the intern programs conduced by business organizations for upper-level college students. In the case of the SBPLI programs, the participants in the programs are upper-level high school students who are being prepared for lower-level work than are participants in college-level intern programs.

SBPLI consults with participating schools to effect changes in curricula that will benefit Long Island area business firms. This approach is sound for students who are going to enter the work force soon after graduating from high school; however, the approach likely would prove detrimental to students who aspired to more than two years in a community college program subsequent to graduating from high school. SBPLI also consults with participating schools to effect changes in teaching procedures to assure that such procedures are appropriate for business. Unfortunately the article does not elaborate on the character of teaching pr

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the courts by social activists for the past two decades, attacks on reliance by states on the property tax for K-12 educational funding has served as the lightening rod for reform in education finance sought by taxpayers and conservative political organizations in the 1990s. Article 3 Pattison, S. (1993, October). School funding. Consumers Research Magazine, 76, 38. The author reviews recent legislation in both Michigan and Texas involving the use of the property tax to fund public K-12 education. Each of these two states opted for a different policy approach. In Michigan, reliance on the property tax for the funding of public K-12 education was eliminated. The Michigan policy will fund public K-12 education at the state level. This approach holds the potential to introduce greater equity into public K-12 educational funding in Michigan; however, the increase in the state's sales tax to offset the loss in property tax revenues has generated opposition from a wide spectrum of the general public, including many persons who benefit from property tax relief. The approach adopted by Texas is completely different from that in Michigan. In Texas, local independent public school districts will continue to fund public K-12 educati
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