Bobby Jindal’s poll numbers have dropped sharply. In 2010, he had favorability ratings of 58%.
His positive rating is now down to 34%, making him one of the most unpopular governors in the U.S.
In Florida, Governor Rick Scott’s approval ratings are down to 33%.
This is good news.
Voters are paying attention.
The people of Louisiana and Florida are not pleased by governors determined to eviscerate the public sector. Instead of improving basic public services, they are outsourcing and privatizing them.
They are not conservatives. They are arch-reactionaries. Our country needs a vigorous private sector and a robust public sector. Neither should be weakened.
The American public doesn’t want corporate America to take, rent, buy or grab what belongs to them.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
And the lieutenant governor of FL has resigned after being linked to an illegal gambling operation:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/us-usa-florida-lieutenantgovernor-idUSBRE92C0M320130313
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Mixed results here in CT. If higher ratings it is due to his reactions to a crisis, but this is important also:
Perhaps the most ominous sign for Malloy: just 42 percent of voters say he deserves reelection in 2014; 45 percent say he does not.
Schwartz said Malloy should also be worried about the poll’s finding that only 40 percent of voters say they are satisfied with the direction of the state, “something that an incumbent wants to see above 50 percent,” Schwartz said.
Prediction…one and done Malloy…showing up for four years will NOT guarantee you another term.
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Governor Corbett of Pennsylvania is also tanking.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/state/new-poll-shows-corbetts-numbers-put-him-in-dire-shape-678978/
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People do realize that there are no magic teachers, no magic schools and no magic tests. Education is hard work and perseverance. Isn’t it funny that here we have charters who choose their students while excluding the disabled and ELLs–and they do no better than public schools. To me, when you take public money and give it to someone so they can make a private profit–the old fashion vocabulary word is graft.
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Scott thinks he can placate Florida educators with his proposed $2500 increase for all teachers. Garbage. Our corporate-deform minded legislature will never allow increases that are not tied to “merit”. If anything, they might use some of this proposed expenditure to provide districts some very short-term funding for the currently unfunded mandate of evaluation based pay.
Here in Gates County Florida, we have already seen the first teacher dismissals based on Gates-style evaluations and “value-added”. No surprise here – not a single teacher has seen an increase due to positive ratings. How they must love it when a plan comes together like that.
Scott’s proposal is just as insulting as Arne Duncan’s statement that teacher salaries should start at $60K. Both men take us for fools. Well, guess what? If we keep taking it like sheep, they are right; we are fools.
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Oh, com now. The public schools have never belonged to the people but to the dictatorship of the people. Parents won’t rise en masse because they prefer freedom, at least the 80% who can navigate the system. Pity, though.
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Harlan, you sound like a Marxist.
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Here in Louisiana the favorite word for the talking heads of our state is “Choice”. Diane heard it firsthand here recently at a forum. The funny thing about choice is that in order for parents to make an informed choice, they must first have correct INFORMATION. That is why our governor and Mr. White continue to lie about what they are doing and spin it as success to the people of our state and nation. Their new webpage is a farce. The past data has been removed and replaced with junk. It’s called “Louisiana Believes”. It should be called ” LA Believes ANYTHING”.
As an administrator I know our high poverty parents depend on us the give them the information they need to stay informed. That is why we recently held a parent information session to help them make ” informed decisions” , oh, I mean “choices”. Our new superintendent liked our PowerPoint so much that she integrated some of our slides onto her own presentation at her own public forum. I’ve said all along that the only way to win this is to get the parents and other taxpayer on our side with information. The media has been bought and paid for by big business billionaires and politicians. it’s up to us to inform parent’s “Choices” because our governor depends on their “ignorance”. But we know they aren’t ignorant. We know they just want what is best for their children. That is why neighborhood schools are so important. Our parents know they can trust us to tell them the truth. These are “our” children.
Here in Louisiana we are raised with a mistrust of our politicians. Jindal has taken that mistrust to a new level. Never before have we had a governor who was so intent on destroying the very foundations of our state. He appears to be building a caste system here in our state that would rival that of his parents’ home country, India. He targets the poor in every one of his schemes. The new one will target the poor with extremely high sales taxes (47%?) and no income taxes for the wealthy. Go figure….
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I’m surprised it took this long for Scott’s approval rating to get this low. He used his personal millions to lobby legislators to change the campaign finance laws so he could payroll his own campaign. Was elected even after voters knew that his company paid the largest government fraud settlement in U.S. history related to Medicare fraud. His executive order for mandatory state worker drug testing and initiatives for the FL legislature to pass a bill for drug testing welfare recipients may just have had something to do with the fact that he owned a drug testing company (that he later put in his wife’s name and then said he was trying to sell…wonder how much the company would be worth?) His kids went to private schools. This is Florida’s “expert” on what’s best for teachers? Yikes!
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