Posted on 03/17/2010 1:00:24 PM PDT by rhema
DC voted 93% for 0bama. They got what they deserved today.
Uh oh. Feinstein had better watch herself, or she'll spend a few weeks in the NEA re-education camp.
Democrats can't win with an educated, informed and intellectually competent electorate. They'll NEVER support substantive education reform. Democrats love teachers, and loathe students.
When any union boss says, “Sh*t!,” Democrats squat and ask, “What color?”
What matters is that the Republicans (except Snowe) were on the side of the angels. There won't be as many Dem DC voters in November and 2012; the ones who care about their kids' education will start bailing.
http://www.walletpop.com/specials/best-and-worst-public-school-systems-in-us
The Democrat Unions screwed D.C. kids and their parents once again.
Can’t have them straying off the Democrat plantation. They may open their eyes.
They have to reauthorize the FAA?
Wow, Olympia is quite the turd. I guess that paleness is more than skin deep.
“DC voted 93% for 0bama. They got what they deserved today.”
You betcha! ‘Can’t have educated future voters in mostly black cities. It’s not the democratic way.
“Money talks and bullsh*t walks.”
—BOBBY BAKER, LBJ’s Senate Bag Man
On the final day of the National Education Association’s convention last summer, its outgoing general counsel, Bob Chanin, gave a speech for the ages. After sharing fond recollections of his 41 years as the NEA’s top lawyer, he switched gears and started lobbing grenades at “conservative and right-wing bastards,” including Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. The NEA and its affiliates, by contrast, were “the nation’s leading advocates for public education and the type of liberal social and economic agenda that these groups find objectionable.”
Chanin’s glowing portrait of the NEA was wildly wrong, of course, but so was his characterization of the union’s opponents. People of all political stripes—not just right-wing “bastards”—are starting to realize that the single biggest impediment to education reform is the NEA itself.
Take the nation’s 4,000 charter schools—public schools that operate with less red tape, fewer suffocating union rules, and a higher percentage of minorities and poor students than regular public schools do. In California, 12 of the top 15 public schools are charters, including three in Oakland that cater to exceptionally poor children. Los Angeles charters’ median score on California’s Academic Performance Index was 728 in 2008, compared with 663 for regular public schools. . . .
This is pure evil.
GOP Senators always cave.
It cost twice as much for non voucher students (public school) as it does for voucher school students.
Public school students graduate at 50% rate compared to 90+% of voucher students.
The cost per student was public school student $15,000 per semester compared to $7500 voucher student per.
“There won’t be as many Dem DC voters in November and 2012;...”
Good luck with that .. but that you were right. The Dem majority in DC is totally overwhelming, even IF (big IF) the parents of voucher students were to go 100% R.
For an arbitration I belong to the NEA for a few short years and it was the only time I ever had to write on my NEA application which party I belonged to and the amount I was contributing.
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