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In reply to the discussion: Judge gave all of York PA city schools to these guys from Florida?? Frightening. [View all]madfloridian
(88,117 posts)20. Actually I have not heard a single Democratic leader be against them.
If anyone knows of one, let me know.
Here's more about Hillary's stance from The New Republic:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117989/hillary-clintons-education-policy-other-implications-2016
Where Hillary Clinton Stands
To some degree, Clinton has sought to triangulate between the two education camps in her party. She collected the American Federation of Teachers endorsement in 2007, pledging to protect the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively. On the campaign trail, she decried standardized tests (which provide much of the data reformers see as critically important), asking, How much creativity are we losing? How much of our childrens passion is being killed? However, like her husband, shes been a steady backer of charter schools. Shes been open to linking teacher pay to student performance, though she prefers that student achievement be measured and bonuses be distributed on a schoolwide basisnot to individually successful teachers.
But Clintons future positions on education may have less to do with her past and more to do with the current political environment. For a variety of reasonsscorching conservative opposition, congressional inaction, implementation snafus, etc.the Obama administrations reforms have been extremely controversial. While opposition to the Common Core is both more complicated and less widespread than usually reported, its emblematic of a weakening American appetite for national education initiatives.
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Judge gave all of York PA city schools to these guys from Florida?? Frightening. [View all]
madfloridian
Dec 2014
OP
soon it will be an automatic disqualifier for anyone trying to get into college
Javaman
Dec 2014
#17
Something like a famine and people dying in the streets might do it eventually
Katashi_itto
Dec 2014
#40
africa & india have had famine and people dying in the streets for millenia. so far, it hasn't
NewDeal_Dem
Dec 2014
#46
Yes, but this is Ameicka. Brown people dont register on the consciousness. When white people start
Katashi_itto
Dec 2014
#50
Phony tests result in "take-over" scores. Yet NEVER ONCE have I heard or read of CURRICULUM details.
WinkyDink
Dec 2014
#23
once they privatize all the schools, we'll see the true dumbing down of america.
spanone
Dec 2014
#26
I heard they have to re-apply for the jobs they already have. This is so personal for you.
madfloridian
Dec 2014
#42
"Yet while they have no say in the matter, city property owners' tax dollars
NewDeal_Dem
Dec 2014
#47
Reprehensible. Just a flat out scary world to bring a child into this is.
TheKentuckian
Dec 2014
#32