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In reply to the discussion: AFT executive council shoots themselves in the foot... endorses Clinton w/o asking the membership [View all]Agschmid
(28,749 posts)46. Try Google, it works.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117989/hillary-clintons-education-policy-other-implications-2016
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/clinton-faces-questions-education-reform
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Both of these articles list some policy positions and her website has others. Also note she met with AFT several weeks ago so this has been "in the works".
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.
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.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/clinton-faces-questions-education-reform
Hillary Clinton told members of a powerful teachers union in Washington D.C. this week that organized labor has an important role to play in public education, and that critics of unions are dead wrong to make teachers the scapegoats.
The American Federation of Teachers, the nations second largest teachers union, met with all three declared Democratic presidential candidates to consider endorsements (former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee had not yet announced). Each candidate spent an hour meeting with the unions executive council and members who were invited to ask questions.
Teachers unions have lately found themselves in the crosshairs of many education reform activists and Republicans, who see the unions as caring less about educating children than protecting themselves. Reformers tend to favor charter schools, which are often not unionized, along with stricter teacher testing standards, and less employment protection for educators.
In the meeting with AFT Tuesday, Clinton in particular faced numerous questions on hot-button issues in public education, according to AFT president Randi Weingarten. Secretary Clinton got a lot of questions about testing, and about the very granular aspects of public education, and she clearly had spent a lot of time thinking about it, Weingarten told msnbc in an interview Wednesday evening.
The American Federation of Teachers, the nations second largest teachers union, met with all three declared Democratic presidential candidates to consider endorsements (former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee had not yet announced). Each candidate spent an hour meeting with the unions executive council and members who were invited to ask questions.
Teachers unions have lately found themselves in the crosshairs of many education reform activists and Republicans, who see the unions as caring less about educating children than protecting themselves. Reformers tend to favor charter schools, which are often not unionized, along with stricter teacher testing standards, and less employment protection for educators.
In the meeting with AFT Tuesday, Clinton in particular faced numerous questions on hot-button issues in public education, according to AFT president Randi Weingarten. Secretary Clinton got a lot of questions about testing, and about the very granular aspects of public education, and she clearly had spent a lot of time thinking about it, Weingarten told msnbc in an interview Wednesday evening.
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Both of these articles list some policy positions and her website has others. Also note she met with AFT several weeks ago so this has been "in the works".
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AFT executive council shoots themselves in the foot... endorses Clinton w/o asking the membership [View all]
Man of Distinction
Jul 2015
OP
Not a smart move on the part of the Leadership. Now they are facing a revolt and a whole lot of
sabrina 1
Jul 2015
#1
Teachers don't take kindly to not being consulted. I didn't know about this, but will be watching
libdem4life
Jul 2015
#7
True, I have always had extremely good relationships with the parents of my students, and if a
sabrina 1
Jul 2015
#13
Glad to know you're a teacher...enjoy your posts. What grade or level? I'm retired from
libdem4life
Jul 2015
#18
I've been a good Democrat all my adult life. But my school district in California was the first one
libdem4life
Jul 2015
#3
I am a teacher and know many, many other teachers. 2008 teachers were promised many things.
sabrina 1
Jul 2015
#15
Yeah "the AFT said that they polled their members". Wow, now that's proof. nm
rhett o rick
Jul 2015
#115
What are Hillary's education policies? I keep asking but no one seems to know, or are ignoring
sabrina 1
Jul 2015
#17
So basically for the privatization of the Public Schools. Because you really can't be for
sabrina 1
Jul 2015
#36
Her supporters know, they just don't bother replying because they know you won't care.
Agschmid
Jul 2015
#47
Actions speak louder than words. Those might be her words, but her action was her vote.
Exilednight
Jul 2015
#163
linking pay to performance is bullshit. she supports that and she can take a hike
roguevalley
Jul 2015
#110
I'm a teacher, and I endorse Bernie Sanders, as do most of my fellow teachers, who are human beings
sabrina 1
Jul 2015
#21
Yup because "cleansings" are typically wicked progressive, and have worked out so well in the past.
Agschmid
Jul 2015
#119
That is why I was wondering why they dud not know polling had occurred two times.
Thinkingabout
Jul 2015
#54
I was a union officer, I heard this statement about members didn't know anything, I can tell you
Thinkingabout
Jul 2015
#164
Thanks, I've been getting alerted on quite a bit lately must have ticked someone off.
Agschmid
Jul 2015
#98
I'm no longer active, but in my years of experience teachers tend towards liberal, can and
libdem4life
Jul 2015
#24
I am a progressive Democrat and a teacher. I know what Bernie Sanders policies on Education
sabrina 1
Jul 2015
#27
there is zero evidence that thread is full of 'angry teachers.' Anyone can post on it.
wyldwolf
Jul 2015
#28
What? I asked you where Hillary stands on Education and you respond with a reference to some
sabrina 1
Jul 2015
#39
"How can you endorse someone when you don't even know who the other candidates are?"
cherokeeprogressive
Jul 2015
#40
Then their members aren't paying attention, considering the meeting happened June 6th *ish*
Agschmid
Jul 2015
#51
You deal with the facts that are convenient when they fit your agenda, nothing more.
BeanMusical
Jul 2015
#117
The members are only asking for poll results and how the questions were posed.
madfloridian
Jul 2015
#73
Are union executives elected, are they representatives of the body of the union?
Agschmid
Jul 2015
#95
This guy had me confused with a odd PM that states "Welcome Back"...
Man of Distinction
Jul 2015
#133
Lots of misogynistic comments and general Foxbottery on that AFT FB page as well.
LuvLoogie
Jul 2015
#139
Yes I saw my union donated to Bernie, I was not polled nor did I vote to donate the money.
Thinkingabout
Jul 2015
#195