Watch this Video on GOP candidates and Education

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1. Joseph says:

   August 24, 2015 at 5:05 pm

   It may not make a difference, when we see our joy with the Obama (Hillary) administration.They are not in charge.
   Thinking that an only saving grace is if Trump becomes the next Teddy Roosevelt. As Dante said about passing those gates to the Inferno, “abandon all hope.”.
   Now a crash of the economy, which is occurring, might also be the magic elixir.

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2. Linda says:

   August 24, 2015 at 5:16 pm

   Watch Campbell smile as Kasich pledges to further demean teachers and take away the lounges most of us don’t even have.

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3. Joseph says:

   August 24, 2015 at 5:23 pm

   Please, the Unions have demeaned teachers with Common Core. Parents are dying on hunger strike to save their school in Chicago while the Union leaders spout “social justice” nonsense on FB.

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4. Doug says:

   August 24, 2015 at 5:24 pm

   I wish I could say Hillary would be vastly different than these jokers, and the AFT endorsed her already.

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5. ira shor says:

   August 24, 2015 at 5:27 pm

   These GOP Yahoos are candidates for next installment of “Friday the 13th.” They are nightmare freaks who sure do make Hillary look good–and that’s the problem with the AFT video–easy targets without answers. What is Hillary’s educational platform? Stop CCSS? Stop the Standardized Testing? Small Class Size? Stop privatization? Randi’s AFT endorsed Hillary without putting any public education agenda on the table. Team Randi shoved everyone on the Hillary train. Not promising. Bernie also has to come out with an education policy platform that speaks against the private war on public schools, stops privatization and charters in their tracks, transfers wealth back to public sector, ends annual testing and VAM. Still waiting for the Dems to do it.

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   • FL Teacher says:

     August 24, 2015 at 7:57 pm

     Not going to happen.

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6. debbiehopes says:

   August 24, 2015 at 5:51 pm

   I have supported Obama in most areas but his education program stinks. The only hope for public education is concentrating on state and local elections as well as the federal one. The Republicans have concentrated on elections for governors and state legislators as well as judges for years. Now they have gerrymandered so much that, while changing directions is going to be tough, winning on these levels is the only hope left for public schools.

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   • Chiara says:

     August 24, 2015 at 6:38 pm

     I agree. DC is hopeless. It reminds me of when they all climbed aboard the “deregulate financial systems!” train. That ended well.

     They seem to be vulnerable to peer pressure 🙂

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7. MomintheMidwest says:

   August 24, 2015 at 6:08 pm

   Remember the AFT has already endorsed H. Clinton. They want us to think the GOP is bad — and it is, mostly — but it isn’t worse than Clinton. Clinton is as bad as it gets — so we should take our chances with ?? I don’t know what to do, really, but I’m not going to vote for Clinton.

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   • Jon says:

     August 24, 2015 at 9:35 pm

     Join the Facebook group “AFT Members for Bernie Sanders.” DC isn’t going to ride in on a white horse and save us but Bernie is much better than HRC.

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8. Chiara says:

   August 24, 2015 at 6:36 pm

   Weird that Chris Christie sees public schools as “asking taxpayers for money”. Someone should tell him we all pay for public schools and our kids also attend them, unlike his kids.
   I never considered school funding as charity from politicians. Does he think it’s his money? Why? These people do know they’re not actually creating this funding, right? That they’re collecting it and they’re supposed to spend it on the public?
   Maybe setting this up as a business wasn’t such a great idea. They seem to have deluded themselves into believing they’re creating tax revenue.

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   • concerned mom says:

     August 24, 2015 at 8:32 pm

     I agree. Why do so many people see public education as a burden/the cause of high taxes rather than a necessity? Even if one does not have a child attending public schools, they still benefit from and need the services of people who attended public schools. The quality of life many of us enjoy is due to the hard work of many people who attended public schools.

     I think people are resentful because they pay high taxes for a service they don’t directly use. The attitude is, ‘My kids don’t attend public schools so it is unfair that I have to pay.’ My guess is Christie wants to lower taxes by reducing the budget of public schools.

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9. ponderosa says:

   August 24, 2015 at 7:42 pm

   Stanley Fish calls attention to Carly Fiorina’s ideas about education in HuffPost today (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stanley-fish/carly-fiorina-education_b_8032570.html)
   I like what both Fish and Fiorina have to say.

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10. FL Teacher says:

    August 24, 2015 at 8:02 pm

    That video is IRRELEVANT. I dislike everyone of those candidates, but they have ZERO power over education in Florida. They WILL have plenty of power in Washington IF Obama vetoes the new education bill which STRIPS Washington of its power. If any Republican bozo has the ability to hurt education from Washington, it is OBAMA’S fault. It is OBAMA’S fault that the Tallahassee Republicans got $700 MILLION to harm education.

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11. Ken Watanabe says:

    August 25, 2015 at 1:17 am

    Love that sound effect!

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12. democracy says:

    August 25, 2015 at 5:57 am

    Randi Weingarten was on All In with Chris Hayes last night….she does a masterful job of weaseling on Common Core. Chris Hayes asked some basic questions, but he didn’t ask:
    anything about

    1. WHY Common Core was ostensibly created (to restore American “economic competitiveness”);

    2. WHO – exactly – were key players in its development (Bill Gates, College Board, ACT, Inc.);

    3. HOW the Common Core is already in place (it’s tied into ACT and SAT tests and AP courses and tests);

    4. WHO are the Common Core’s biggest supporters (US Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable); and

    5. WHY both the AFT and NEA – among other education organizations – signed off on Common Core; didn’t they know testing was attached?

    Chris Hayes did ask Weingarten about the AFT’s support of Hillary Clinton. Watch how Weingarten “answers” the question.

    All-in-all, not a very informative piece, except for emphasizing the increase in resistance to “standardized testing.” But – aren’t the ACT and SAT “standardized” tests?

    http://www.msnbc.com/all

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    • John says:

      August 25, 2015 at 10:03 am

      Too little, too late. New AFT leadership needed asap.

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13. Chiara says:

    August 25, 2015 at 7:15 am

    The US Department of Education is pushing this website:

    http://www.parenttoolkit.com/index.cfm?objectid=B32DD6D0-ACA3-11E4-B6B70050569A5318#Section_0

    Produced by NBC Education Nation and sponsored by Pearson. Another private/private partnership.

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14. drext727 says:

    August 25, 2015 at 7:40 am

    Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.

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15. another former teacher says:

    August 25, 2015 at 2:59 pm

    Rand Paul has consistently stood for local and state control of schools, here he is speaking against NCLB, and in favor of input from teachers, a few years back:

    More recent statement on education:

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