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Easley named 'America's Greatest Education Governor'
WRAL ^ | 7/3/2008 | WRAL/AP

Posted on 07/03/2008 7:54:44 AM PDT by AT7Saluki

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley is being lauded by the nation's top teacher lobbying group as "America's Greatest Education Governor."

The National Education Association planned to give Easley an award Thursday during the group's annual meeting in Washington.

The NEA cites Easley for his "More at Four" program for at-risk preschool students and the "Learn and Earn" program, which allows high school students to graduate with a diploma and an associate's degree.

Easley also got the Legislature to create a program that allows students to finish college without debt.

(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carolina; easley; education
Puh-lease! They left out the part about shamming through the lottery in the dead of night and calling it "education".
1 posted on 07/03/2008 7:54:44 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
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To: AT7Saluki

Aaaargh!


2 posted on 07/03/2008 7:58:08 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Tax-chick's House of Herpets. Watch your extremities - we're hungry!)
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To: AT7Saluki

Good lord! Around here we call him “Sleasley”.


3 posted on 07/03/2008 7:59:10 AM PDT by Edgar3 (My SUV just ate your Pius)
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To: AT7Saluki
What a FRAUD!

This from a guy who has stolen millions from the Highway Trust Fund to overpay for NC Education and now has given his wife a $170,000 state job in education.

4 posted on 07/03/2008 8:04:00 AM PDT by geo40xyz (BE PREPARED: McCain or Obama! possibility of 4 Supreme Court Justices, Gore @UN. The WINNER is?)
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To: geo40xyz

Easley...Yeh...He gave us an education. He appointed Nifong.


5 posted on 07/03/2008 8:06:36 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: AT7Saluki

LOL. He’s the greatest spender of taxpayers money. Thank God & Greyhound he’s about to board the bus.


6 posted on 07/03/2008 8:07:26 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I've done here today doesn't force you to have a negative opinion of me....)
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To: Sacajaweau

Good point.


7 posted on 07/03/2008 8:09:03 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I've done here today doesn't force you to have a negative opinion of me....)
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To: AT7Saluki
If the NEA gave him an award he must be absolutely dreadful. It is synonymous with receiving and award from the ACLU.
8 posted on 07/03/2008 8:12:11 AM PDT by MBB1984
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To: AT7Saluki

in other words, to translate, he is ‘America’s Worst Education governor’


9 posted on 07/03/2008 8:13:53 AM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: AT7Saluki

He does what the NEA wants him to do, and they give him an award. Funny how that works.


10 posted on 07/03/2008 8:23:09 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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To: AT7Saluki

Well, I guess that’s why he had the taxpayers funding his little trips to Europe. He was just studying ways to waste more money on bad education.


11 posted on 07/03/2008 8:23:48 AM PDT by Bob Buchholz
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To: AT7Saluki

CLOSE PUBLIC SCHOOLS!


12 posted on 07/03/2008 8:25:16 AM PDT by rrrod
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To: geo40xyz

“his wife a $170,000 state job in education.”

Hey, they did a nationwide search and discovered that he was married to the perfect candidate. What are the odds?


13 posted on 07/03/2008 8:44:17 AM PDT by Holicheese (Hillary deserves the CMoH for her time in Tuzla!)
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To: AT7Saluki
Easley named 'America's Greatest Education Governor'

Let me rephrase that headline:

Weasley Earns Title of 'America's Most Corrupt Governor'

This is the same guy who appointed Mike Nifong as District Attorney in Durham County, and has now been discovered spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on expensive overseas trips, and giving his own wife a raise from her $90,000 job to $170,000.
14 posted on 07/03/2008 8:52:45 AM PDT by TommyDale (I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: AT7Saluki

Wow, to receive such an honor you must be dumping untold millions into unskilled and unneeded public school administrators’ pockets!!!!


15 posted on 07/03/2008 9:30:16 AM PDT by AbeKrieger (There is a special place in Hell for Lyndon Johnson.)
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I just heard that he had a personal Mercedes-Benz hired for 24/7 service during his overseas junkets.

In Germany, (to us average, ordinary pleeps), that would be considered a "CAB".

On a nine-day, $170,000 trip to Italy in April, the state paid $51,000 for daily chauffeur service in a Mercedes Class S sedan.

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/jul/03/easleys-took-lovely-trips-abroad-we-got-the-bill/

16 posted on 07/04/2008 10:40:28 PM PDT by Libloather (July is Liberal Awareness Month.)
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