The Obama Administration's Lone Star Mistake ("a swing and a miss" at Rick Perry)

The American ^ | August 30, 2011 | Andrew G. Biggs, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

[Cincinatus' Wife]

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

Will Perry dismantle public education as we know it?

This piece is making Conservative and Liberal sites.

Will Rick Perry Unravel the Strange Consensus on Public Education?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

This piece is making the rounds at Conservative and Liberal sites.

[RightLady]

You would think the head Dept of Education could at least know correct grade school English grammar! It's not “I feel badly”, it is “I feel bad’. Verbs associated with senses do not have adverbs ending with LY. To feel badly means unable to feel or touch things. What a dunce!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Gov. Rick Perry said "no" to competing in "Race to the Top." Texas Knows Best How to Educate Our Students

But Rep. Shelia Jackson-Lee and her Democratic Party wanted Perry's signature so the "money would flow to our schools within days."

Gov. Perry sued for Texas' money (without Washington telling us how to spend it) -- And won! Promise Kept.

Mona Charen: NRO Beware those 'radical' ideas -- Good opinion piece on Perry and education – Reagan simplicity that works

Chris Christie article -- Even Democrats are now alarmed about the state of education in this country but its too late because the GOP owns this issue.

UCLA: "Gov. Rick Perry’s ‘Seven Breakthrough Solutions’ would make for bad business, undermine meaning of a university"

Perry Draws Flak for Plan to Run Universities Like Businesses ……..”Perry, who has been governor since 2000, has filled state boards and commissions with those who share his vision and has launched a public attack on college costs......"

What Are Texas’ Seven College Solutions? [snip] 1. Measure quality — The plan would calculate a cost-benefit analysis for professors. How much are they paid? How many classes do they teach? How many students? How do students rate those professor? The data would then be compiled into rankings, which students could review before choosing their instructors.

2. Recognize and reward teachers — This is merit pay for professors. The plan calls for the top 25 percent of professors to earn a bonus. Top bonuses would be $10,000 per class.

3. Separate budgets for teaching and research — This would allow colleges to better evaluate what kind of bang for its buck professors are providing. Splitting the pots of money would make it clearer how and why professors are paid.

4. Require evidence of skill for tenure — This would set easily-defined goals to earn tenure. For instance, a professor would have to earn a rating of 4.5 on a 5-point scale to be eligible for tenure. Likewise, a professor might have to teach at least three classes a semester, with at least 30 students in each class, for a set number of years before becoming eligible for tenure.

5. Results-based contracts with students — This amounts to a mortgage good faith estimate for students. Students would have to sign a document outlining the school’s class sizes, teacher evaluations, SAT scores of incoming students and other data that would allow them to make a better informed decision.

6. Funding in the hands of students — This proposal would take out the middle man in public funding. Some public money is given to schools as a tuition subsidy for student. The Texas Public Policy Foundation argues students will make the best decision if they get the money directly. Critics contend this creates a voucher system for colleges.

7. Create results-based accrediting alternatives — This proposal would gradually move schools away from traditional accrediting and create a national body similar to the Securities and Exchange Commission to evaluate college claims and actual results. Colleges that can not fulfill their recruiting pitch could be investigated for fraud. Establishing new accreditation would make it possible for more schools to enter the market. [snip]

[HiTech RedNeck]

Do you feel silly, or simply sil?

[Quiller]

It's not “I feel badly”, it is “I feel bad’. Verbs associated with senses do not have adverbs ending with LY.

In this context, badly = adverb (modifies verb "feel"), and bad = adjective (modifies state of noun "I").

[Quiller]

Oh, there you go. Trying to apply facts and statistics to democrat pandering to stereotype and hyperventilation.

Next thing you know, you'll be expecting a lucid explanation of the term, "jobs saved".

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The Left is getting all “wee-weed up” over what Perry would do to the Dept of Ed, the EPA, the Dept of Energy,......

As well they should be.

Excerpts from “Fed Up!”

“We are fed up with being overtaxed and overregulated. We are tired of being told how much salt we can put on our food, what windows we can buy for our house, what kinds of cars we can drive, what kinds of guns we can own, what kinds of prayers we are allowed to say and where we can say them, what political speech we are allowed to use to elect candidates, what kind of energy we can use, what kind of food we can grow, what doctor we can see, and countless other restrictions on our right to live as we see fit.”

http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/perry-puts-out-call-to-action-in-fed-1019388.html?printArticle=y

“I do think George (W. Bush) is basically a conservative man who believes in God, in the greatness of America, in the protection of life, and in protecting our nation from our enemies ... (but) he turned a blind eye to undisciplined domestic spending while he focused on ensuring funding for a very important war against the perpetrators of terror.”

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Was 'Politico's' 'Dumb' Article on Gov. Rick Perry Dumb? ……….>>>RICK KLEIN, "ABC WORLD NEWS": Yes, no, look, I don't think -- whatever his brain power is<<<…………

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Cincinatus' Wife.

The administration unleashed Education Secretary Arne Duncan to attack Texas's record on education, with Duncan saying he feels "very, very badly for the children." When pressed to explain precisely what Texas has done wrong on education, Duncan came up a bit short on specifics. The Education Secretary's arguments have generated a lot of useful discussion across the web, but I thought I would throw some rudimentary data analysis into the picture.

[Ann Archy]

Rick Klein sounded REALLY dumb!!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Rick Klein sounded REALLY dumb!!

Yes - as well as defensive, out of his depth and petty (typical LIBERAL situation).

Greta did good.

[BobP]

Next thing you know, you'll be expecting a lucid explanation of the term, "jobs saved".

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Not to go off thread here but, just a little about jobs saved.

The 2.5 million jobs 'created or saved' comes from a formula. The formula comes from a theory. It says that for every dollar the government spends, 1.5 dollars' worth of economic activity is generated, and presto, jobs come out. The economic geniuses working for Obama want us to believe that by definition, since they spent almost a trillion dollars in 'stimulus', they automatically created jobs.

Once you know about this magic formula in which any government spending creates jobs, much becomes clear. That's why Pelosi claimed that unemployment insurance creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative. The Secretary of Agriculture told us August 16, 2011 that Food Stamps are an economic stimulus, explaining that every dollar of food stamp benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity.

The Congressional Budget Office reported that through the first quarter of 2011 the stimulus created between 1.6 million and 4.6 million jobs, increased real GDP by 1-3 percent, and reduced unemployment by up to 1.8 percentage points. Where did the CBO get these figures? It made them up using formulas.

Payments to state and local governments for infrastructure were estimated to have a multiplier of between 1 and 2.5, whereas the multiplier for unemployment benefits, food stamps to individuals was between 0.8 and 2.1.

That's it. That's the only reality to 2.5 million jobs created or saved.

Historic.

It's all a crock... of Barack

[Cincinatus' Wife]

How Democratic Party politics and policies have destroyed black families and created ghettos of despair and devastation.

A cry in the black education wilderness - LINKS to education, leftists and race.

[Straight8]

Reminds me of that line from “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”: “He chose.....poorly.”

[maica]

Why Duncan would pick on a state that’s in the middle of the pack rather than a true laggard is anybody’s guess.

I hope this author was being funny, rather than serious when he wrote that he didn't understand Duncan's motivations.

Arne Duncan is a politician, a Chicago Politician. He attacks Texas, because Texas is a big red state. The Obama machine have the red/blue map cemented in their brains, and all thoughts, utterances and actions are reflective of what color state they are addressing. They do not feel a part of the entire United States, but look on states with Republican governors, or states that voted for a Republican in the White House as their enemies. I am not exaggerating.

I have heard him say unbelievably stupid remarks about the improvements in student test scores which occurred "for the first time" after Obama was elected. The man is either a bold-face liar (typical dem), or delusional.

[SaraJohnson]

We should on play liberalism’s “smart” people...

Let’s begin with the President who is hiding his college transcripts and who created Obamacare and the current economy. His mouth pieces in the media rave about how smart he is, but he hides his transcripts.

How “smart” is it to choke off energy production in the United States making us even more dependent on energy in the Middle East which has been destabalized by the smart people?

How smart is it to back a bunch of “clean energy” operations with US tax money that are already out of business?

How smart is it to permit Holder to claim “his people” are of one color and that whites don’t have equal voting rights in this country?

I have worked with some of the world’s smartest people in science and medicine. They never go around talking about how smart they are. They are too smart to do that. :)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I think you filled in what the author knows and you did it nicely.