Posted on 02/24/2008 10:01:12 AM PST by SoftballMominVA
Hillary Clinton - Proposed $10 billion for universal preschool. More money for special education. Opposes performance-based merit pay for teachers, favors incentives for teachers who work in places and on subjects where shortages exist. Supported No Child Left Behind accountability law but says it has not been properly financed or run, and should be replaced. $10,000 higher education scholarships for all who engage in national service full-time for a year. Raise value of tuition tax credit to a maximum $3,500 from $1,650.
Obama - Encourage but not require universal pre-kindergarten programs, expand teacher mentoring programs and reward teachers with higher pay not tied to standardized test scores, in $18 billion plan to be paid for in part by delaying elements of moon and Mars missions. Change No Child Left Behind "so that we're not just teaching to a test and crowding out programs like art and music." Tax credit to pay up to $4,000 of college expenses for students who perform 100 hours of community service a year.
Huckabee - States are responsible for education and should be given more authority to run it, not Washington.
McCain - Favors parental choice of schools, including vouchers for private schools when approved by local officials, and right of parents to choose home schooling. More money for community college education.
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And this surprises you? Why?
The rest of the article discusses other issues too. It's incredible to take a single issue and chart it side by side.
please add my name to the Public Education ping list.
Thank you,
Wintertime
I hate to be the bearer of bad news --- but they are WRONG!
Huckabee is a darling of the NEA, and loved No Child Left Behind.
And if anyone thinks John McCain will lift one finger to get the Feds out of their unconstitutional stranglehold on public education, they’re smoking rope.
As you were polite in your request to be added to the PS ping list, I will be equally as polite in declining your request. My personal reason is that I will not subject myself or others to your abusive words towards those who hold a different attitude as you in regard to public education.
Have a nice day.
We have an awesome Pre-K program in Georgia. 100% funded by the lottery, so those who choose to play the lottery also fund education.
Works out really nicely and the kids have really benefited well from the program.
I am all for Pre-K programs.
I’m a public school teacher. I’d like to be on a list for legitimate discussion, please.
If you see an article that explains how that works, could you post it? Others may be interested too.
Oh yeah, Lottery funds college ed too. No reason to post an article, it is simple.
If you maintain a 3.0 GPA in high school, HOPE pays for 100% tuition and books to ANY public college in the state, as long as you maintain said 3.0.
That easy.:) I can go back and get a EdS or PhD on HOPE, or doing continuing ed, etc.
Really, really nice program.
Federal education expenditures are not permitted by the Constitution and I have the opportunity to vote for a man who has made law abridging free speech in spite of the oath he took.
I also tend to agree with E.D. Hirsch that we really need a coherent national curriculum, such as his Core Knowledge curriculum. I don't see it happening any time soon, however.
I teach science in a public high school in Ga. There are a few of us conservatives in “ government education” as boortz likes to call it. We live in a conservative community, have no union, so it works for me! Just wanted to let you know that you are not alone!!
Thanks—
I live in one of the most conservative areas of Texas (near Texas A&M— where Boortz went to university). We have no unions here. Lots of Southern Baptists and, in our particular area, lots of Catholics. People hold vigil outside Family Planning multiple days per week, even though they don’t do abortions here. (They wouldn’t dare.)
The nation doesn't need more resources poured into the same utterly disfunctional education system. It needs grownups to barge in and fire everybody, kick backsides and take names, run all the politicized mountebank nonsense out on a rail, and teach the objective truth.
And no pol has the stomach to even bring up the actual subject, because they are afraid it might make some media flak for the lesbian stalinist brainwashers upset.
Well guess what, we are beyond upset yesterday at all this waste and stupidity. Forget fixing it, defund the entire parasitic mess, yesterday. Burn it to the ground.
three clones and a crazy
Huckabee is a major candidate?
Well, he’s still in it, for now. Who knows, he might be the VP
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