Posted on 12/10/2019 4:54:29 PM PST by mdittmar
WASHINGTON - December 09, 2019 -
National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen García provided the following statement in response to the release of Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s education plan:
“As educators look towards the 2020 presidential election, they are looking for a candidate who will champion for our nation’s public schools and working families. They will support someone who will partner with parents and educators to ensure every student, no matter what zip code they live in, has access to quality public schools.
“Mayor Buttigieg’s plan includes some positive ideas that will help keep the promise to America’s children by strengthening America’s public schools and ensuring that every student has the opportunity to get a quality public education. We encourage him to continue listening to the educators who know the names of the students in the classroom about how best to ensure every student has the opportunity to succeed.
“Over the last several years, educators have found their collective power through the #RedForEd movement. That power was clear in major victories at the ballot box Kentucky, Louisiana, and Virginia this year, where educators were central in reshaping the political landscape to deliver victories for students and public schools. Now, NEA’s 3 million members will use this power to elect a champion for students and our neighborhood public schools to the White House.”
Specifically, Buttigieg’s plan calls for:
As educators continue doing their homework to learn about each of the candidates, praise for any candidate’s proposal should not be seen as an endorsement of that candidate by the NEA. As America’s largest union and largest organization of educators, NEA will continue engaging in conversations with all candidates as we vet them to determine who has the best ideas for ensuring all students, regardless of where they live, receive support, tools, and time to learn.
Educators are trusted and powerful voices in every community. NEA represents 1 in 100 Americans, and 1 in 39 voters comes from an NEA household. NEA members are located in every U.S. congressional district, including key battleground states, which makes them key electoral influencers.
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National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen García picked hillary.
Hillary Rodham Clinton speech at 2016 NEA Representative Assembly
More drag queens doing reading hours?
The unions are still using the old BS cliche “America’s working families.”
Family members all have to work (except babies in the crib) because the workers in unions fork over dues, hurt the employer’s ability to invest more capital in the business due to union contract concessions and spend the rest of the dues on Dem campaign chests—not to mention frequent labor bosses’ siphoning off money as recent court trials showed.
Exactly
Promising that same old "cradle to grave" hand from government that the commies always promise..
As I recall, there is someone else who's always trying to buy our soul... Now, what the heck was his name..??? :(
The only way to improve public schools is to: a) close them down; b) replace them with private and charter schools; c) vouchers to parents; and d) absolutely NO government involvement at any level (local, state or federal) in the curriculum.
Bravo! That is also the only way to stop all the fights over what is to be taught in school and other issues such as which holidays will be observed, etc.
One of the worst things that happened to this country was the heavy hand of government providing most of the education from kindergarten through college.
The only way to improve public schools is to: a) close them down; b) replace them with private and charter schools; c) vouchers to parents; and d) absolutely NO government involvement at any level (local, state or federal) in the curriculum.
But he will not endorse education vouchers.
Closing the opportunity gap by reversing inequitable funding structures at the state and local level
How exactly can a president, or the federal government, get involved in how states and localities fund public schools?
If I recall correctly, only about 5 per cent of all school funding comes from the federal government. So even if Pete can change the 5% of federal money and pour into ghetto schools, he and the federal government simply have no authority over literally thousands of school districts across the country, and how money is to be spent.
Closing the opportunity gap by reversing inequitable funding structures at the state and local level
How exactly can a president, or the federal government, get involved in how states and localities fund public schools?
If I recall correctly, only about 5 per cent of all school funding comes from the federal government. So even if Pete can change the 5% of federal money and pour into ghetto schools, he and the federal government simply have no authority over literally thousands of school districts across the country, and how money is to be spent.
Give teachers and administrators lots more money and kids will get smarter.
“They will support someone who will partner with parents and educators to ensure every student, no matter what zip code they live in, has access to quality public schools.”
“champion for our nation’s public schools and working families”
This is nothing more than disingenuous blather. It’s PR talk obfuscating their actual intentions which has empirically been to swindle tax payers out of their earnings, to serve teachers and administrator’s economic interests, and deliver the absolute minimum of anything resembling an education. Where are the people who genuinely think we’re just one caring politician away from quality education for everyone? It’s insulting to any one with sense and would be fraud if it were coming from anyone other than the state.
There are so many lies and miss characterizations in the NEA statement it could make your head spin. Total propaganda.
An outfit here in Petie’s home state did a study this year and found that the growth of “non-teaching” positions in Hoosier schools dwarfed the rate of growth of enrollment
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