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Jeb Bush hammers teachers unions at education summit
Washington Time ^ | 11/27/12 | Ben Wolfgang

Posted on 11/27/2012 12:02:00 PM PST by SoFloFreeper

In the fight to reform American schools, former Florida Gov. and outspoken education advocate Jeb Bush on Tuesday took direct aim at labor groups and joined a growing chorus who believe real change must start by loosening the grip of teachers unions.

“We need to have a teacher evaluation system that is based on teachers being professionals, not part of some collective trade union bargaining process,” said Mr. Bush, chairman of the Foundation for Excellence in Education Reform, which kicked off its national summit in D.C. on Tuesday.

“We have a system to reward teachers that’s based on an industrialized, unionized model that is completely inappropriate for the 21st century,” Mr. Bush continued. “There are incredibly fine teachers that get paid less even though they’re doing the Lord’s work consistently over time, and there are teachers that are mediocre that get paid more because they’ve been there longer.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: education; nomorerinos; norinos; rino; rinobegone; tokyorove; unions
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Teachers unions discourage young, excited, innovative teachers...and protect the dead wood.

I do know older teachers who are excellent...but many are not.

Unions protect the bad ones, and that is a fact.

1 posted on 11/27/2012 12:02:05 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

The time-honored method of RINOs everywhere; run to the right to win the nomination, run to the left to win the election, then stay there.


2 posted on 11/27/2012 12:05:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Labor unions are the Communist Party of the USA.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The Ghost of No Child Left Behind. The bush’s One Trick Pony.


3 posted on 11/27/2012 12:06:53 PM PST by MestaMachine (It's the !!!!TREASON!!!!, stupid!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bingo.


4 posted on 11/27/2012 12:07:50 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: MestaMachine

No more bush.


5 posted on 11/27/2012 12:08:46 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: MestaMachine; All

No Teachers Union Left Unfunded


6 posted on 11/27/2012 12:08:48 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: MestaMachine

No more bush.


7 posted on 11/27/2012 12:09:25 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Instead of Jeb Bush, let’s just start saying Jeb Romney.


8 posted on 11/27/2012 12:09:43 PM PST by glorgau
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To: SoFloFreeper

Ask teachers to be professionals??

da horror!!


9 posted on 11/27/2012 12:09:43 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: GlockThe Vote

We know who and what you are, Jeb. Get lost!!


10 posted on 11/27/2012 12:10:32 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: SoFloFreeper

Hey jeb, nobody in PUBLIK SKOOL is doing the “LORD’S work”


11 posted on 11/27/2012 12:11:38 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: SoFloFreeper

ANY GOP member speaking out against public unions won’t hear a “nay” word from me.


12 posted on 11/27/2012 12:14:45 PM PST by what's up
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To: SoFloFreeper

13 posted on 11/27/2012 12:15:09 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: SoFloFreeper
My husband and I sent our kids to Catholic schools. I did this because when my firstborn was still just a toddler, I read an article in the local paper about the test scores from the various school districts in the State (WA). Well, the SD that I was in did not even have half of the students doing reading or math at grade level. We had an exceptionally bright youngster, and I wanted her to get as good an education as she could. Apparently, the public schools were not that place. So, we took a financial hit and both our kids went through Catholic schools. (In college, our youngest daughter took a Junior level English course her Freshman year, and she still was repeating theories and subject matter that she had covered in HS.)

My husband's brother is in CA and they couldn't afford the private school, so their kids were in public schools. At a parent's meeting he met someone who told him that the schools try not to put the same kid in a class with a lousy teacher two years in a row (proving that they know who shouldn't be in a classroom). My brother-in-law went home and thought about that, and sure enough, when he thought about his daughter's teachers, it went, good teacher, bad teacher, good teacher, bad teacher. Exactly like what the guy he met at the meeting told him. This is our public school system.

14 posted on 11/27/2012 12:15:09 PM PST by LibertarianLiz
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Instead of just bashing teacher unions, Jeb Bush and his father and especially his brother,43, need to start pushing back against the meme that 43 was to blame for the economy. Mike Reagan makes this point and I think it’s vital. We’re into Obama’s second term and now the gloves must come off. The story of Fannie and freddie, the 2007-08 Democrat Congress, the connivings of Barney Frank and Biden with the likes of Angelo Morzzilo. All this needs to come out, and not through mouthpieces but from the source and let H W Bush reveal how the dem Congress screwed the economy in 90 and 91 after the Gulf War. If they don’t the Bushes will be this generation’s Hoover and the Dems will continue to blame them for everything up to and including the Lindbergh Kidnapping.


15 posted on 11/27/2012 12:18:12 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: SoFloFreeper

Read my Lips “No New Taxes”
“1000 Points of Light”
“Kinder and Gentler”
“Compassionate Conservative”
Yet MORE Bush BULLSHIT!


16 posted on 11/27/2012 12:18:28 PM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Wow, this is sooooooo inspiring.

Now I reallllly like Jeb BUSH.

Gosh, I’m sooooo excited.

Riiiiiight....


17 posted on 11/27/2012 12:18:50 PM PST by gaijin
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To: SoFloFreeper

Has he been seen in NH or IA yet???


18 posted on 11/27/2012 12:19:08 PM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
He sure didn't do much about the teachers unions here in Florida during his two terms as governor. Our public schools are dreadful.
19 posted on 11/27/2012 12:19:50 PM PST by Arm_Bears (The MSM lies about conservatives; and it lies about liberals.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
So Jebby is the one NEWSCORP wants to foist on us next? The same Jebby that confiscated 65,000 (yes that's sixty-five thousand) acres of private property near my home at the behest of the enviros, sugar farmers and his big developer buddies?

FU you pudgy, phoney elitist prig. I wish you nothing but hell for the rest of your miserable life.

20 posted on 11/27/2012 12:20:25 PM PST by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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