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Education Push Includes Merit Pay (Obama betrays teachers unions)
WSJ-online ^
| 3/10/2009
| LAURA MECKLER
Posted on 03/10/2009 7:55:05 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
Don’t get excited.
Perhaps MERIT pay will happen but it will go to those that are the most LIBERAL.
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posted on
03/10/2009 7:56:00 AM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
To: SonOfDarkSkies
What’s Obama’s measure of merit?
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posted on
03/10/2009 7:57:07 AM PDT
by
Mojave
(Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
To: Mojave
Minority, woman, gay, etc. Those are all the merits Obama is concerned about.
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posted on
03/10/2009 7:58:34 AM PDT
by
ronnyquest
("That's what governments are for, to get in a man's way." -- Malcolm Reynolds)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
So the teachers who tow the liberal line will be considered “the best”. NEA evaluators will be the ones, no doubt, who choose the “best” teachers.
This is a head fake by Obama.
I won’t fall for his lies. Ever.
To: ronnyquest
Maybe a “bilingual” bonus as a sop to the La Raza crowd.
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posted on
03/10/2009 7:59:57 AM PDT
by
Mojave
(Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
To: nmh
oh PUL-LEAZE! This “bone” is boob bait for the bubbas to latch onto, so the spinners can say he’s not a LIBERAL!!
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posted on
03/10/2009 7:59:59 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience)
To: nmh
This article caused me to wonder, if he'll betray the teachers unions, maybe he will abandon "Card Check" when push comes to shove.
While he'll be an awful President, there might be some hope that he won't absolutely destroy the securities markets.
To: A_Former_Democrat
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posted on
03/10/2009 8:00:18 AM PDT
by
maggief
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Why are all the articles opening up, except for the 1st one under breaking? Anyone else having a problem?
To: Mojave
Bilingual? They’ll pay more for Spanish-only speakers.
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posted on
03/10/2009 8:02:37 AM PDT
by
ronnyquest
("That's what governments are for, to get in a man's way." -- Malcolm Reynolds)
To: maggief
There should only be one criteria, the end result of their class performance.
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posted on
03/10/2009 8:13:12 AM PDT
by
snowman1
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Immigration, legal and illegal, is what is hurting K-12 education the most. And the highest school drop out rates are among Hispanics and blacks, which not so coincidentally have the highest rates of out of wedlock births.
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posted on
03/10/2009 8:22:15 AM PDT
by
kabar
To: SonOfDarkSkies
And year after year, a stubborn gap persists between how well white students are doing compared to their African American and Latino classmates. He left out Asians. And aren't most Latinos white?
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posted on
03/10/2009 8:24:17 AM PDT
by
kabar
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Nothing that ODumbo says or does can be taken at face value. There will be a ‘catch’, guaranteed. Socialists and other liars often bastardize conservative language and ideals to sell a program, with the intent of subverting the voters’ intent once the program has been put into place...
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posted on
03/10/2009 8:43:05 AM PDT
by
The Electrician
("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
To: A_Former_Democrat; SonOfDarkSkies; nmh
The Union will say who merits the pay.
This is just Obama speech.
"I am taking the troops out of Iraq," "Iam closing Guantanamo," etc. "I am assuring the poor that the Sun will rise tomorow and we have a plan to make sure it continues everyday, this is not a partisan issue, and I cannot understand why the Republicans are against this."
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posted on
03/10/2009 8:45:28 AM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
(The Election of 2008: Given the choice between stupid and evil, the stupid chose evil.)
To: A_Former_Democrat
"OK whats the catch?"
Just another way to increase spending on education.
end o' story
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posted on
03/10/2009 9:14:30 AM PDT
by
Pietro
To: kabar
Latino is not a race, the correct term is “spainish surname” and they are classed as “white”. If yo daddy be named Jones and yo mammy be named Lopez, you could miss out on a lot of Obama Largess. The national Teachers Unions make a convenient whipping boy, but the teacher is like a soldier on the front lines who is given defective ammo and weapons and is blamed for the defeat. When you have the likes of Teddie, et al, writing the curriculum, it makes little difference of good teacher, or bad teacher. Policy determines how hard you can grade. If they would lay off the teachers, and beat on the politicians, something might change.
barbra ann
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posted on
03/10/2009 9:28:19 AM PDT
by
barb-tex
(He will simply soak the filthy rich, and help the common man.)
To: nmh
just because barry throws out one good idea it doesn't mean he'll act on it....there are no such things as bad teachers according to leftist if they are good card carrying communists, I mean teachers.....
and besides..."merit" pay for teachers will just be an extra add on for any little thing they think they accomplish.....like getting the kids to bring a pencil to class.....
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posted on
03/10/2009 9:45:27 AM PDT
by
cherry
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