Posted on 10/04/2015 12:50:06 PM PDT by Zakeet
John King Jr. was a miserable failure as Commissioner of Education in New York. He waylaid his failure in New York into the assistant’s job in the US Department of Education. He will be the new Secretary of Education.
King came to New York as an extremely well-educated egghead with little educational experience and none in public schools. He implemented Common Core in a bizarre manner and blamed the horrendous results on New York’s “ignorant” children. Even though New York’s standards were the highest in the nation, he claimed the students were not used to high standards.
He tied teacher evaluations to the standardized testing, exams which weren’t even properly evaluating children. Teacher evaluations were in some cases based on other teachers’ student scores. Tech, art, music teachers are still being evaluated by language arts or math student scores because there aren’t any exams for them.
When New York school districts began administering Common Core-aligned standardized tests, there were dramatic drops in scores when the results were released in August. Not even one-third of students in third through eighth grade met or exceeded the standards in math or English.
King said then the sharp drop in scores was a result of the rigor of the new standards and that the decline was expected.
(Excerpt) Read more at independentsentinel.com ...
So ... what else did you expect the idiot would do?
Dump the whole Department of “Education”. it’s the biggest impediment to education in the country.
“Failed NY Education Commissioner Is the New Secretary of Education”
A failed former attorney and community organizer has been president of the United State for over six years.
In business A students try to hire A+ performers. C students never hire C+ students, much less A’s or B’s. The same holds true for government.
King's skin color was the only reason he was chosen.
Waylaid??
Perhaps they mean "parlayed'
Do you really think that Obama would appoint a successful person? It would make Obama look bad by comparison.
Demonicrats, perverts, failures, and traitors!
Who else would be in the hell-spawned Traitorobama regime?
Dat be exactly why he be hired in da first place.
How much longer do we have with this idiot? (sigh)
Like Hillary said at this point what does it matter
Obamalogic!
I wonder what his muslim name is?
“Do you really think that Obama would appoint a successful person? It would make Obama look bad by comparison.”
No I don’t. I’m not convinced Obama knows any really successful people outside of politics.
"He will be the new Secretary of Education."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate educational purposes.
The reason that the Secretary of Education exists in the first place is that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment Senate failed to protect the states as the Founding States had expected the Senate to do. In this case, senators wrongly helped to pass unconstitutional House appropriations bills that not only stole 10th Amendment-protected state power to regulate education, but also stole state revenues associated with such powers.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators who help to establish unconstitutional federal bureaucracies along with it.
Failure is part of the job requirements.
Just shows that you don’t have to actually accomplish anything to be successful in politics/government.
Which goes a long way toward explaining the current mess we’re in.
Looks like could be Secretary of Stupid
IMHO this appointment was racist.
One second is too long.
But I'm sure all but the potentially competent felt good about themselves.
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