"FACT CHECK: Romney off on Obama’s relationship with teachers’ unions; it’s anything but cozy" by AP

[applegrove]

FACT CHECK: Romney off on Obama’s relationship with teachers’ unions; it’s anything but cozy


By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, May 24, 4:28 PM, Posted at WP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/fact-check-romney-off-on-obamas-relationship-with-teachers-unions-its-anything-but-cozy/2012/05/24/gJQAC8mqnU_story.html?wprss=rss_social-nation-headlines&Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost


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When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation’s teachers’ unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy.

Obama has promoted initiatives that encourage districts to tie teacher evaluations to student performance and to expand the number of charter schools — actions the teacher unions have long been against, and which Romney himself promoted Wednesday in a speech in Washington outlining his education platform.

He also painted a bleak picture of a country where millions of kids are getting a “third-world education” and whose international standing has fallen far behind, an assertion frequently used by politicians and debated by academics, though the most recent tests show that U.S. student scores haven’t changed significantly and remain about average.

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[iemitsu]

1. as a long time public school teacher

i can tell you that few teachers are happy with obama's educational reform positions.
i will support him in november but not happily.
his attitude toward teachers is worse than bush's was.

[Thrill]

2. SHOCKER Another lie?