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Take Note Quotes & Numbers W E C O M B T H E M E D I A D A I LY for the best quotes and statistics about public education. If you discover a quote or stat you think we should highlight, send it along with your name to editor@cta.org. 1,016:1 Ratio of students per counselor statewide in California, ranking the state 50th in the nation in the number of counselors per student, as of 2010-11. The ratio compares to 471:1 nationally. I'm the principal here at Grattan Elementary. It's my third year. And this year it's very exciting. For the first time in years our budget is not smaller than it was last year. And I think that's a trend. So we're looking forward at good times coming up for us in California education. —Principal Matthew Reedy at San Francisco's Grattan Elementary in a back-to-school story on KQED's "The California Report." (From an EdSource report "Recovering From The Recession") 72% What this litigation is trying to do by I trust in the common sense of the judicial decree is American people. They will not knowingly abandon their public what Prop. 32 and schools to the whims and follies of many other ballot Percentageand Americans whothe men of the market. The market goes have trust confidence in initiatives have and women who teach in our nation's up, the market goes down. The public schools. market has winners and losers. The failed to do. It's (From a PDK/Gallup Poll on public's attitudes principle of American education is essentially an end about public schools) equality of educational run around legislative or opportunity, not a market that practices This is a challenge for ballot initiatives by trying risk management and our education system. to get courts to decide what sheds the losers from It's going to take all of the California legislature its portfolio. us — parents, teachers, —Education historian Diane Ravitch and people of California, in her blog about her new book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the through their initiative administrators, volunteers Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools process, have refused to do. and business leaders — but 3,472,915 Number of California K-12 public school students (55.8 percent) who qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2011-12 school year, one indicator of poverty (From the Ed-Data website) 14 Educator 09 Sep 2013 v3.6 int.indd 14 —Catherine Fisk, a professor at the UC Irvine School of Law and an expert in labor relations, about the Friedrichs v. CTA lawsuit to ban fair share fees and weaken the political voice of unions. From the Frying Pan News blog. California has always led the way. — State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson in a public video update about transitioning to the Common Core State Standards. When we do this, we shall move away from our battlegrounds, from 'standing your ground,' to common ground. —The Rev. Amos C. Brown, president of the San Francisco NAACP, in a San Francisco Chronicle column about the legacy of the March on Washington and the need to find jobs, justice and equality for all. S E P T E M B E R 2013 9/3/13 2:25 PM