DeLay: Better Teachers Equal Better Education; House Passes Innovative Education Bills

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DeLay: Better Teachers Equal Better Education; House Passes Innovative Education Bills

7/9/03 6:44:00 PM

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To: National Desk

Contact: Stuart Roy or Jonathan Grella, 202-225-4000 both of the Office of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay web: http://www.majorityleader.gov

WASHINGTON, July 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) today said the House passed two innovative education reauthorization bills to attract and retain the highest quality individuals to teach in our schools. This legislation is an important first step in reshaping American education to face the emerging challenges of the 21st century.

"We now have an opportunity to make overdue reforms to the federal government's role in our national education system," DeLay said. "With the enormous responsibilities weighing on them, we owe it not only to American teachers but to their students to prepare every one of them before they set foot in the classroom."

"Too many inexperienced teachers are being thrown into the classroom without effective training and preparation, while two-thirds of public schools around the country have teacher vacancies in their special education programs," DeLay said. "As more of our best teachers retire every year, the teaching shortage in America is approaching crisis levels and we must act now."

The Ready to Teach Act of 2003 strengthens and improves teacher training programs around the country by measuring training programs' success and holding them accountable. This bill will bring higher qualified individuals into the training programs and ultimately into the classrooms.

The Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act of 2003 makes qualified teachers in math, science, and special education eligible for student loan forgiveness up to $17,500 if they teach in low-income-community schools. Most of these low-income, "Title One" schools are in our nation's inner cities and rural areas where the need for qualified teachers is most acute.

[Tacis]

And, all over the country, teachers' unions' thugs are thinking, "Great more money and a lot less work for the SENIOR teachers and we can raise union dues."

The secret is not money, it is job satisfaction. Teachers are not allowed to teach. They are providing self-esteem, "fairies are fine" education, avoiding religion, confronting what every student can see and pretending that blacks and Mexicans are average or better, and not offending anyone. The unions protect the most incompetent, least effective of them all.

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Delay is right.