Posted on 08/21/2011 1:25:29 PM PDT by radioone
Education Secretary Arne Duncan's insult to Texas public education was a politically motivated distortion that doesn't become a federal official in his position.
What a load this guy is.
We shouldn't hear lies come out of the mouth of the nation's top education official (photo at right) when he discusses the record of millions of students and dedicated educators.
People work too hard to have their work dismissed with his pathetic statement about feeling "very, very badly for the children there."
TEA Commissioner Robert Scott emailed Duncan a sharp response last night (keep reading for text), and I'm glad he did.
The tipoff that Duncan doesn't care about facts was his statement about "massive increases in class size in Texas" during Rick Perry's time in the governor's office.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com ...
Here is a little in your face from the folks in Dallas - the top two highschools in America are the Engineering and the Art magnet schools. Ask any kid in Ameirca if they would like to go to a high school that produces grammy winning singers and kids ready for MIT. Not bad for public education. How many other cities have copied the magnet concept started in the seventies in Dallas?
END THE DoEDU NOW!
END the EPA NOW!
Just more of the Kool-Aid drinking media’s “Anything To Re-elect Obama” campaign. Another reason the media is largely a BIG JOKE these days. . . and not a funny one.
Liar in Chief is appointing Idiots for Education.
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