The Los Angeles Times reports that some teachers are unhappy with their unions’ early endorsement of Hillary.
She supports unions. But where does she stand on charters? 90% of charters are nonunion. You can’t be pro-union and pro-charter.
Is she close to Eli Broad? For many teachers, that is the kiss of death.
Will she follow the Bush-Obama line?
She has to make clear where she stands.
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I assume this is a family-friendly page, so I won’t post a video of Blurred Lines here, but you get the idea.
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Post Weird Al’s version. Much better.
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Now you’ve gone and made me look up what Blurred Lines is?
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My deepest apologies …
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And now I had to look it up….
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YEP, even I wouldn’t post that video.
Hot chicks, though (sexist misogynist pig that I am or in old fashioned terms-dirty ol’ man-ha ha!)
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All song-&-dance aside, the point, if anyone missed it, is a bit like this:
When it comes to making it clear where she stands on education, I’m guessing Hillary will probably keep the lines blurred just about as long as Obama did, if not longer.
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Yes she certainly does.
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It was wayyyyy too early for endorsements – for anyone. Positions aren’t even clear yet.
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Pushback, I’ll say so. I’m leary of her corporate ties, her SuperPac and inability to remember important details.
I’m more than a little angry that the membership of the Union has little input into these endorsements. Why is the leadership in bed with Hillary already?
Bernie supports the middle class and organized labor. That’s me and most of you. Make sure you don’t miss the bus. Sanders for President 2016.
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I like what Bernie has to say, but I have heard nothing from him supporting public education. I need to hear it!
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Same here.
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EXACTLY!
This is a big mistake by his campaign, and I have tried , believe me to get to him.
He and I are alumni and classmates from James Madison HS,, and I did meet him recently, when we inducted him to our Wall of Distinction, and I snapped his picture.
The publisher of the newssite where I write http://www.opednews.com/author/quicklinks/author40790.html
has tried to get him to call me,
and so have his friends and people who know him in Vermont, people who also know me… but to no avail.
I could put into words what we teachres NEED TO HEAR from a presidential candidate, but I just want him to talk to Diane, as she is so erudite, so informed and in truth, the most knowledgeable person on what is ongoing. Politico knows that, and so should he!
The deadline for the primaries is approaching and Bernie Sanders is making a terrible mistake by not speaking directly to teachers and parents, and letting them know that HE GETS IT…. that he sees how the conspiracy to end our democracy, or road to the American dream is being ENDED by giving our schools to the charlatans! He needs to give us a plan to take back our schools, to fund public schools not starve them, so that SMALLER CLASS SIZES can be achieved by hiring real LEARNING PROFESSIONALS i.e. TEACHERS!
Maybe we need a hashtag which says
BERNIE SAYS TAKEBACKOURSCHOOLS@dianeravitch or call SUSANSCHWARTZNOW@knowthetruthaboutschoolreform.
somedamnpoet help create a hashtag that brings bernie to us!
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I agree 100%,
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Thanks Diane for posting this Clinton column from the LA Times which I mentioned here earlier today. I too have tried to get messages to Bernie through his lifetime friends…to no avail. We wanted him to sit down with Diane and discuss all the ed issues.
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We can’t forget what happened with Obama. Teachers helped to get him elected due to his solid platform on education. But, as soon as he got in office, he immediately turned to the dark side when he hired Duncan over Hammond. So, even if Hillary says the right things to appease teachers, I don’t think that will cut it. And in her case, there is ample evidence of her accepting huge sums from the main privatizers.
She certainly has a dilemma. She needs the large donations from the likes of Broad and the Waltons, but may instead lose the election due to accepting this tainted money.
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Exactly. Darling-Hammond was on Obama’s transition team as “a sop to the base” according to insiders.
http://www.epi.org/publication/grading_the_education_reformers/
“DFER, with funds from Eli Broad, wrote a secret memo for the “informal yet real education transition team.” Jon Schnur organized the effort and strove to calm his nervous fellow-reformers, assuring them that the Darling-Hammond appointment was only a sop to a faction that would have no real influence, while DFER’s secret memo set forth the Administration’s actual policy – including the naming of key Gates Foundation and Teach for America operatives for crucial administration policy posts, and calling for use of student test scores to evaluate teachers.”
So far, Hillary’s team is firmly in the neoliberal privatization camp.
Eli Broad & Hillary have a mutually beneficial relationship that needs an open & honest discussion about their goals. So far their goals for public education look like lay-offs, firings, segregation, school “reconstitutions”, school closings, reduced wages & profits for the rich investors.
http://www.defendpubliceducation.net/eli-broad-and-the-clintons/
Hillary owes all teachers an explanation a clear picture of her relationship with Jeb’s for-profit education company.
“Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received nearly a quarter of a million dollars last year for a speaking engagement on behalf of Academic Partnerships, a for-profit education company in which Jeb Bush held an ownership stake and on whose board he served.”
Heave only knows what she will actually do if elected. But so far, the evidence doesn’t bode well for public education.
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I just went to the link http://www.defendpubliceducation.net/eli-broad-and-the-clintons/
It is all there, folks, if you have any questions as to what Hillary will do for public education. She is part of ‘the plan’ of 1/10 of 1%ers to engineer the end of public education.
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One of Duncan’s top appointees reportedly received an ethics waiver because of her prior employment at the Gates Foundation. Via the revolving door, she is now an education executive at a firm founded by Bain.
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Yes..educator…especially with all the photos of the Clintons with their close pals, the Broads.
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Agree JCGrim…
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The same thing happened in NYS with Cuomo. Fool me once ….,., not a second time.
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“Senator McCain doesn’t talk about education much. But I don’t accept the status quo. It is morally unacceptable and economically untenable. It’s time to make an historic commitment to education a real commitment that will require new resources and new reforms.
We can start by investing $10 billion to guarantee access to quality, affordable, early childhood education for every child in America. Every dollar that we spend on these programs puts our children on a path to success, while saving us as much as $10 in reduced health care costs, crime, and welfare later on.
We can fix the failures of No Child Left Behind, while focusing on accountability. That means providing the funding that was promised. More importantly, it means reaching high standards, but not by relying on a single, high stakes standardized test that distorts how teachers teach. Instead, we need to work with governors, educators and especially teachers to develop better assessment tools.”
Source: Speech in Flint, MI, in Change We Can Believe In, p.249 Jun 15, 2008
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Education.htm
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In 2015, thanks to Emergency Manglers, they can’t even keep the lead out of the water in Flint. Imagine what that does for early learning, not to mention irreversible learning deficiencies.
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Smoke ‘n Mirrors.
What a shame.
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“Talk is cheap.”
“Actions speak louder than words.”
Just those two clichés demolish all his credibility.
😎
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Tweetily supporting unions is one thing.
Finding comfortable shoes is another.
These are the times that try (wo)men’s soles
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The early endorsements Hillary engineered through allies Lily and Randi were needed b/c Hillary’s candidacy is stalled, needs to push both teacher union cliques to come forward now before it’s too late and before rank-and-file teacher support for Bernie has a chance to spread. Bernie’s campaign is making headway, esp in NH and IA; he’s a populist barnstorming huge crowds Hillary cannot draw. Then, Dem elements are pushing Biden to challenge Hillary, so she needs to shore up leadership elements immediately to secure her candidacy. At this moment, the GOP circus is her best ally, and Wall St. financiers next, with conservative Dems in South coming in third. Next to the GOP freak show, it’s easy to look good, which is why right-wing media relentlessly broadcast the email problem, to make H’s character the issue, deflect attention from GOP idiots on TV, weaken the obvious advantage GOP jackasses provide anyone who runs against them.
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Hillary supports charter schools.
Hillary has no credible explanation for the Benghazi debacle.
Hillary voted for the Iraq War.
Randi is placing her bets on Hillary because she covets Arne’s job.
This is not rocket science my friends.
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Can we put that on a bumper sticker?
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Republicans support charter schools. Republicans would likely still have been in committee when Benghazi happened. Republicans voted for the Iraq war. Republicans are upfront about desiring to deep-six ‘govt-monopoly schools.’
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And so are Democrats, Bethtree…Eli Broad is a Dem..and then there is the guy in the current WH…and loads more Dems who support charters…and they even call themselves ‘liberals’…like Henry Waxman.
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Read up on DFERs…
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Democrat Andrew Cuomo seeks to break the public school monopoly.
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Dinos-Democrats in Name Only
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AS, What indicators are there that Randi Weingarten wants to be Secretary of Ed? It’s a no-win job, especially after the events of the past 15 years.
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The Secretary of Education is a tad more powerful than the AFT President. It is my impression that the Secretary is thanked very nicely by his corporate benefactors. Moreover, he gets to shoot hoops with the President.
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Wasn’t Randi in Israel on Labor Day, 2014, exhorting American workers, back in the states, to carry on the fight of their lives?
Sounds like personal ambition, to me.
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What does it matter. All politicians lie to get elected. After teachers supported Obama, look what he did, allowed the dismantling of public Ed in Chicago under his buddy Rahm and Allowd his other buddy, Duncan to dismantle public Ed nationally. Hilary will go along with this. No teacher’s union should support any candidate that doesn’t support public Ed.
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Exactly why we should support a candidate that will get Washington OUT of education. The unions should get out of national politics too.
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And Paula…all those Obama, smiling love-filled, photos with Kevin Johnson-Rhee, another basketballer and charter school purveyor, and even accused child abuser, politician.
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Obama has been such a disappointment to me in terms of public education. What a nightmare he has brought and Chicago has really felt it. I voted for Jill Stein in the second election. Just abysmal. It used to be that candidates used to stand something. Now, they are just bought and sold.
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This is true; she needs to say. I have written more than once to ask her and have gotten no reply. I believe she is the most qualified. Maybe you can get an answer.
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What is true?
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Who is the most qualified?
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YES, DIANE… we the teachers know what Hillary is all about, which is why Bernie Sanders needs to offer us a policy that shows HE KNOWS what’s up…. that there is a CONSPIRACY TO END PUBLIC SCHOOLS, and that it is based on removing by a LAWLESS civil-rights abuse, compounded by the deliberate inaction to defend its members, by unions across the nation. Have been saying that here from the first day I posted here, , and to you and all the educators that I knew, for at least a decade.
Sure Randi supports Hillary… but then, few teachers out there, have had the experience that WE NYC teachers have had with the UFT when she was president — and the principals could do anything short of murder to harass us out.
She was there when Ivan Tiger was the Manhattan Bureau Rep, at that moment, that meeting, when he refused to represent me as the district superintendent conjured up a ‘guilty’ letter, with no hearing, no witnesses, no charges and with the FACT ONTHE TABLE that I had no idea of any allegations — until that meeting where the letter was read. All he did, as I sat there listening to them trounce my civil rights, was tell me to BE QUIET, AND TO SIT DOWN.
THIS, my dear, is how it worked in NYC and remember… I WAS FAMOUS AND WELL KNOWN. Dan Rather looked me in the eye, knowing my success with kids, and said when I told him, “Unbelievable.”
Exactly. Who would believe it.
Randi came to my rescue, alright –> she rescued me right into retirement– bUT only after my HUSBAND accidentally got through to her on the phone, and told her about the latest assault, the allegation that I had threatened to kill the principal… invented totally by this lethal liar herself.
Even as I had been robbed of everything, all my materials, my books, my research (left behind in my classroom when I was spirited away forever) even as I had lost my reputation and my career, these UNACCOUNTABLE FAILED HUMAN BEINGS came after me, BECAUSE they had no fear that the union would UPHOLD THE CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS! http://www.perdaily.com/2011/01/lausd-et-al-a-national-scandal-of-enormous-proportions-by-susan-lee-schwartz-part-1.html
My husband made it clear how ill I was, so Randi got me a medical leave…. and a date for ‘arbitration’ — where all the ‘documentation’ and lies about me would be made to go away …if I retired…. on the measly pension and social security. I was about to get longevity pay , and go from 58k to 70k. I ran for my life!
Yes, I have Randi to thank for finally extricating me from the swamp that the UFT allowed to exist, fiefdoms where principals lorded it over helpless servants, too poor to sue, and to weak to fight back!
I went to hearings and saw the NYS union lawyers incompetence and complicity, and I know how hundreds of wonderful teachers in NYC were swept away by the lawlessness during her tenure… so please… if she likes Hillary, then I want BERNIE! (even more since I know that he is the real, brilliant, hard -working, honest, person of integrity and real character that he has been since we were in high school.)
and Diane, I know how you feel about unions… and I agree… without them we are fodder.
I want to see all teachers fight for strong UNIONS, with NEW BOLD LEADERS, who ensure the CONSTITUTIONAL rights of anyone in the education workplace !
But the old guard HAS TO GO, and the very hidden nature of their failure and complicity is at the ROOT of the civil rights abuse. If you knew Randi like I know the political creature who is Randi… then you might grasp why she is in Hillary’s corner!!!
http://citywatchla.com/8box-left/6666-lausd-and-utla-complicity-kills-collective-bargaining-and-civil-rights-for-la-s-teachers
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I would hope that she would not support charters. I haven’t heard her address it directly. I think Hillary is not as cozy with corporations as she was in 2008 or like many suggest.
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Maybe you should check out the list of donors to her foundation as a refresher course.
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Hillary says she’s pro-union, but so did Obama. Anyone taking bets on Hillary finding her comfy shoes?
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Not taking that bet.
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She’ll probably find her comfy shoes about the same time she finds the missing emails.
Come to think of it, maybe she put the emails in the shoes — so she’d have something to read while she was on union marches.
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Bernie has support from the former President of the Communications Workers of America. On many occasions, Sanders has walked the line with union workers.
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How many of these should I expect to get on an average day going forward?
Donald L. Laurie Oyster International Tel: 617 859 3065 Cell: 617 792 7399 don@oysterinternational.com
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At least five. Sometimes 10 or more. Diane’s awfully prolific. I’d suggest you unsubscribe and just come to the blog when you have a chance.
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How many is optimum?
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Do you ship fresh oysters to around the country?
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As an educator, I am NOT in favor of an early endorsement. I personally feel as though the NEA made a unilateral decision that was completely devoid of their members input and voice. The NEA did not make any attempt to obtain member input regarding this matter beforehand. Thus, the NEA does NOT speak for me or my fellow educators. Seriously reconsidering the NEA’s position on looking out for their members. Perhaps our hard earned dollars (and precious time) would be better spent elsewhere. Just saying. Who’s with me?
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There is a primary election for a reason. In March or April, 2016, if Clinton has taken the first few primary states, then we can talk about supporting her because we’ll have no choice. It is still, however, 2015, for crying out loud. To act as if there is only one Democratic candidate remaining, at this point, is to obfuscate the democratic process and hand the election to the Republicans. Here’s why: I’d rather the more progressive leaning candidates have all of their baggage exposed now, in a rigorous primary fight, than have it all come out when facing a Republican who had to show his or her mettle against sixteen other primary candidates. The primary is simply supposed to have more than one candidate.
Now, as for Sanders and Clinton’s views on education, there was a post on this blog two or three months ago in which the two candidates’ staffs wrote answers to a number of hot button education questions. I remember Diane writing something like, decide for yourself which candidate really answered the questions. (It was Bernie.)
Don’t just give Bernie a chance; give democracy a chance by grilling everyone running NOW, before it’s too late, a calendar year from today.
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Best. Post, Of. The Day.
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Yes. Perfect.
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I got this response when I posted this at Oped. Dan Geery is a brilliant, wonderful ex-teacher who ran for Utah Senate.
If you have never been to the site he recommends take a little time and read the stories, and maybe TELL YOURS. Karen Horwitz who runs that sued when they came after her, lost her suit, wrote and self-published “White Chalk Crime” and put up this site where teachers have told the stories of the assault on the civil rights of teachers for a decade.,
Dan Geery Writes.
Anyone supporting the NEA or Hillary is working against the people, kids, and teachers. Where Hillary’s money comes from is who she will be responsible to–please Google that if you haven’t yet.
I am but one of probably tens of thousands at least, stomped on by the NEA, but check my story
http://endteacherabuse.org/Geery.html (that’s the very short version, but you will likely need to just skim even that unless you have much time to kill)
and find countless others on the endteacherabuse.org site.
Daniel Geery
http://www.voteutah.us
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She will just lie if she has to. Why would anyone believe that she will do the right thing for us proles? Feel the Bern.
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Hillary will make very clear where she stands about charters and public education She will be clearly pro-public education and anti-privatization.
And then after the elections when she is in office, she will join forces with Eli Broad and friends and decimate public schools and their unions.
She’s not stupid.
Campaign one way; govern in the opposite way.
Was that so hard?
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I note, that for obvious reasons, that no Republican candidate even makes it into this discussion.
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In Ohio, Republicans lead the ant-labor attack. Kasich is one of the Koch governors. A political party that is in favor of backroom abortions and sex and race inequality, a party that refuses to respond to 88% of the population that want laws to stop gun violence, a party reflected in the privatizing agenda of ALEC and, a party that is led by hypocritical social Darwinists like Paul Ryan, deserves no space in any blog.
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What are those “obvious reasons”? I can’t figure them out.
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Is it because it’s a post about the idiotic NEA endorsement of HRC?
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that should be AFT not NEA
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ABSTRACT: The Clinton Foundation has even gushed over Broad’s charter school philanthropy. From the foundation’s website, which is referring to a 2007 donation Broad made to LA charters totaling $27 million: “[Broad’s donations] will have a far-reaching impact on improving the education of students in Los Angeles. By broadening the investments in charter schools in Los Angeles, a tipping point will be created that will put pressure on all other public schools in Los Angeles to improve the educational opportunities for all children.”
The Broads and Bill and Hillary Clinton have connections that go as far back as 1983 and as recently as Sept. 19, when Bill Clinton attended the second opening night of the Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Times quoted Clinton at the gala talking about their friendship, which dated back to when Hillary was Broad’s lawyer. “I looked up one day and Eli was in my living room, and my life has never been the same,” Clinton said.
http://laschoolreport.com/broads-support-of-clinton-raising-concerns-within-teacher-unions/
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Carrie…our Senior Ca. State senator Diane Feinstein also “gushed” over how wonderful Eli Broad is “not only for all he has done for the arts, but also for the amazing work he had done for education”…I was in the room and heard this comment a few weeks ago at a LAWAC meeting at Loew’s in Santa Monica. I almost vomited.
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I think NEA members should really push for Lily Garcia’s removal or threaten mass withdrawals from the association. Why do we have members if this type of decision is basically being made unilaterally? The 500 bucks a year I give the NEA is going so that I get absolutely no chance to be asked who I prefer?
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Just because Hillary and Randi are friends does not necessarily mean Hillary “supports unions.” When Hillary was on the board of Walmart, she was working for the law firm that helped the Waltons fight unionization and she did not intervene on behalf of workers.
Don’t try to divorce Hillary from Bill when she has stuck by his side through thick and thin. Just look at what Bill did: In education, he pushed for national standards and test-based accountability and he promoted school choice, charters and TFA. http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/bill_clinton_education.htm
Much of that may have not seemed cancerous to many at the time, because Bill is a smooth operator who chooses his words very carefully, especially when he’s trying to pull the wool over your eyes (as in “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”), but the truth became evident when it metastasized as it subsequently all played out. Hillary is also slick, so no one should be pressuring her to take a stand where she hasn’t, because just to win votes, she could very well make the same kinds of false promises that Obama made.
And don’t even get me started on how Bill turned Democrats into RepuliCrats, such as by adopting GOP economist Milton Friedman’s free-market neoliberal fiscal policies that support corporations over workers, the gutting of Glass-Steagall to the benefit of bankers, pushing trade agreements like NAFTA resulting in the outsourcing of millions of American jobs to people in foreign countries for slave wages, etc.
The Clintons have continued to take a lot of money from big business, which comes in exchange for favors, so Hillary will owe much to the 1%, just like Obama. I don’t think we have any reason to believe Hillary would be different from Bill or Obama on economic matters, especially public education since it’s been monetized and is such a huge cash cow for their crony privatizers.
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Really hope you are not Homeless, Educator (if you are please contact me at joiningforces4ed@aol.com)…but you sound like my alter ego. Add to Bill’s destructive neoliberalism his Welfare to Work law, adopted in 1996 in California as CalWorks…which has forced endless families into homelessness and lives on Skid Row. At LAUSD we have 13,000 homeless students who get their only meals at school, and also their only showers.
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Thanks, Ellen. Yes, you are right. Bill’s Welfare Reform policies have been catastrophic to many struggling Americans. We’ve got over 20,000 homeless students in my district now, which is not in a temperate climate so street living is harsh for most of the year here.
People often don’t realize how Bill Clinton destroyed the safety nets for most Americans. Those who tout how public assistance caseloads have fallen since Welfare Reform, including the Clintons, don’t understand that this is because fewer folks meet the eligibility requirements for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which is just for people with dependent children living with them and has a federal maximum lifetime limit of 5 years or less, depending on the state. Except for the legally disabled and seniors age 66 and over, virtually everyone else facing economic hardship is on their own and cannot get cash assistance to help them survive. (And the 1% in both parties are aiming to gut the remaining programs for the disabled and seniors.) Also, there is very limited low income housing available, so they have long waiting lists.
Yes, I really am homeless. I recently got food stamps but was horrified to discover that we are not allowed to buy any hot food. That means we can’t buy a rotisserie chicken or soup displayed in the self-service food bars at grocery stores, which is absolutely ridiculous, when we have no kitchen in which to cook, reheat and store food. This necessitates buying prepared food that is cold and that will keep for just one day, such as sandwiches and salads, which also costs more than food you can prepare and store in your kitchen. We can buy lots of cake though, so I think the Clintons and their ilk are akin to Marie Antoinette and have absolutely no clue about what it means to be poor and homeless.
I am waiting to hear if I can get into a homeless shelter later next week. It’s a shelter that is difficult to get into because it’s one of the few places that provides more than just an overnight stay and has services that try to help people get back on their feet, but I don’t know of any shelters or programs that provide cash assistance for people like me.
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In six years as a member of the Wal-Mart board of directors, between 1986 and 1992, Hillary Clinton remained silent as the world’s largest retailer waged a major campaign against labor unions seeking to represent store workers.
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I find it profoundly disturbing that she supports one of the most pro-charter, anti, union, anti public ed. mayor I know of, Mr. Rahm Emanuel in Chicago. To say she is pro union OR pro public education and want him on her team is very hypocritical. You can pretty much ask anyone to in the Chicago Teacher’s Union the lengths this man will go to in order to destroy public schools while his own children go to nice low classroom ratio private schools.
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Here is a line from that article:
“But she has been careful not to embrace union rhetoric when talking about the contentious Obama school accountability and choice initiatives proving popular with voters.”
Are so-called school choice and “accountability” measures actually popular amongst voters? Or is the ideology of the LA Times editorial board spilling over to the news pages? They seem to be really popular amongst neoliberal politicians and wealthy elites, but not so sure about most voters.
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Knowing Broad’s views on education since the 90’s and of his relationship with both Clintons, I do not expect Hillary to do anything differently than Obama.
Do you think she would really support charters return to their original intent when Broad has announced his wanting to take over 200 schools? I don’t believe he is suddenly going to have a change of heart about unions. I do not see these schools suddenly accepting their share of moderate to severe special ed students. I do not see him keeping behavioral problems or placing them in non-public schools at his charters’ expense. After all he believes he can provide a better education cheaper. And I do not see him coming up with any great teaching methods. (His man handling this move did not show any teaching leadership as head of LAUSD unless you count the expensive ipad debacle that could have been handled better by a novice teacher.)
Perhaps teachers should look for a candidate they can really support and talk to their family and friends about supporting that candidate–or just vote for someone other than the rep or dem.
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And of course, Randi loves Hillary. It’s a perfect match because they both are frauds, blow with the strongest wind, and are in business for themselves first and foremost.
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They haven’t even had the first debate!! Too early?? No kidding. I am a union supporter but if my union, NEA, had already endorsed somebody like the AFT did then I would quit that union. Too early!!! And by the way I am feeling the Bern!! Hillary has been flip flopping her entire career, is worth between 30 and 40 million, is taking the financial advantages of the super pacs although she says Citizens’ United was a mistake, and she just spent $600 on a HAIRCUT when 37% of our children are living in poverty and 1 million went bankrupt because of medical bills! I don’t don’t think she gets it.
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Spot on Janet!
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You just admit – her hair was getting a little ratty. She looks much nicer with the new do.
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I’m a retired teacher and am supporting Bernie Sanders.
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She is not my candidate of choice either. I just don’t trust her on education issues. Now there’s talk of Randi stepping down to put her first capo, Mulgrew, in charge. Mulgrew who threatened to punch anyone in the face who defies Common Core.
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Diane–did you have a chance to speak personally with Hillary? With Bernie? It would be great if the dem candidates had your input and advice, and in a personal meeting you could find out more about where they stand.
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I have been saying this to Diane for a long time now.
I know that many very knowledgable people, even people like Bernie cannot follow the real events or the conspiracy that we know is winning…. and thus, they
are unaware of the PACE that the privatization is moving, or that the people who are chosen to ‘call the shots’ about reform, (after the schools) “fail” are hand picked non-educator — critters like Richard Parsons, in NY state– an “exemplar of ‘failing up’ ” as Jeff Bryant noted.
I know Bernie, and I know that if he was given the ‘lowdown’ about how many states have fallen already, and how Koch<Broad and clones are packing the legislatures, he might put forth more than a 'policy statement. When Bernie tells it like it is, people listen and he is broadening his focus. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/us/politics/bernie-sanders-election-campaign.html?emc=edit_th_20151002&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=50637717
Jeff Weaver is making a huge mistake by not contacting Diane, and I hope she will richest to him, because the deadline to register as a democrat is a few days away, and there are millions of teachers who have been screwed by Duncan and company. They are listening.
Moreover, Bernie is a voice to be reckoned with, even if he does not get the nomination, and I know that he will recognize in Diane what we all do, her enormous intelligence and grasp of the issues, and will turn to her.
Bernie is not merely a 'candidate' he is a person of great integrity, like she is, and he will know it immmediately.
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No Hillary 4 me.
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