[SoFloFreeper]

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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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.

[MestaMachine]

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

[glorgau]

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

[GeronL]

Ask teachers to be professionals??

da horror!!

[GeronL]

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

[what's up]

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

[jimbo123]

[LibertarianLiz]

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.

[xkaydet65]

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.

[US Navy Vet]

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

[gaijin]

Wow, this is sooooooo inspiring.

Now I reallllly like Jeb BUSH.

Gosh, I’m sooooo excited.

Riiiiiight....

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

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

[AAABEST]

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.

[mo]

The union is as much of a problem as is somebody who seriously thinks an “education summit” will successfully address anything wrong with education in the country.

[SpaceBar]

If one researches old news archives, it is found that political posturing that results in nothing is as old as the hills. Politician A says he’ll crack down on unions, politician B says he’s hopeful about middle-east peace talks. The names change, but the empty political promises span generations. You can change the names and dates and it reads like it’s fresh off the newswires. That said, Jeb needs to just fade back into the woodwork. He should try something novel for a change and create wealth in the private sector instead of sucking off that government teat like four generations of Bush’s.

[plain talk]

No love for jeb bush here. But we need all the help we can get. We MUST attack the liberals stranglehold on the education system and MSM propaganda machine.

[ex-snook]

"“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.”

Could fit politicians too, Mr. Bush. Try what works in private industry, pay more to attract the best, starting with Schools of Ed. Equate them with Engineer's pay rates and performance evaluation.

[who knows what evil?]

“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.

Just another party in a long line of parties...CPUSA took control of public schools long ago...shut them down/get your children out.

[onyx]

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[frogjerk]

The Chris Christie methodology. That’s what we’ll get with Jeb. Sell out.