Julian Vasquez Heilig has a good post on Hillary and K-12 education. He asks whether she is with us (supporters of public education) or with Wall Street.
Only Hillary can answer. She should do so soon.
Julian Vasquez Heilig has a good post on Hillary and K-12 education. He asks whether she is with us (supporters of public education) or with Wall Street.
Only Hillary can answer. She should do so soon.
Clinton will NOT answer that question. She prefers to lie until she is cornered. Then she re-directs, obfuscates, and if pushed hard enough gives a fake apology. Only the most deluded sheople will find a justification to vote for Hellary.
I’m voting for Sanders but what if Hillary wins the primary? I will not ever be voting GOP and 3rd party candidates are not even on the radar. I will vote for Hillary over any of the lying maniacs of the GOP.
Education is not the only issue: there is the Supreme Court, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, abortion rights, marriage rights, etc.
Where is the upvote button? FI Teacher is correct, period, end of story. Diane should know this by now. Randi Weingarten is totally in Hillary’s camp and will sell us down the river to Hellary and her privatizers.
I am less optimistic than Julian. I’m less worried about Bernie, whether he mentions K-12 education or not. He’s proven himself to be a very good learner. As far as Hilary is concerned, I’ve convinced myself that she’s the least worst choice. Her saving grace, should she be elected, will be much the same as President Obama; she will be judged as good only because the alternatives would have been so much worse.
Why don’t we directly ask Randi what’s going on – no re-direction, obfuscation – just ask Randi.
She’s worried about her checks, that’s it.
Bentsen,
Randi endorsed Hillary.
Benten,
My phone corrected me.
Hillary cares about Hillary. She will ward off questions but I believe that she will take the baton and run with it and continue the pattern we’ve all seen playing out so far. Not good.
Is Hillary a neo-liberal too? Uh, yeah.
“Hillary Clinton top campaign contributors”
https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00000019&cycle=Career
She sure does accept a lot of money from people with business agendas… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6WZy1Niux0
Who does she owe?
She said flat out she would close 50% of the public schools in this country. Her husband is big buddies with Eli Broad and Bill is said to have made assurances on charter schools.
No you can’t trust her, I will never vote for her.
Hillary *has* answered the question for anyone with ears to hear and eyes to see. She supports “public” education. To her, charters are “public”. She just told us the other day (although some people don’t want to believe her) that she will close all schools that are not above-average. What do you think she plans to replace those schools with?
Her comments show a commitment to stack ratings of schools and not much more. She also thinks of teachers as if moveable furniture, just move the good ones to schools that do not “meet expectations” and problem solved. There is not an ounce of difference from Gates on how to solve problems, or how to characterize “problems.”
If you vote for Hilary over Bernie in the primaries because Bernie “can’t get elected”, please don’t complain when the “electable” candidate continues the test-and-punish regimen that leads to the closure of public schools.
I’m voting for Bernie but if he loses the primary I hope you do realize that he will be campaigning for Hillary. Education is not the only issue in the world. I voted for Obama twice and his educational policies are/were an abomination. The alternative would have been a GOPer who would have done the same or worse for education. However, Obama did not select far right wing corporatists to the Supreme Court.
The latest (Dec 22) Quinnipiac poll has Sanders beating Trump in the general election(were it held today) by 13 points with Hillary beating Trump by just 7. Clinton, like Trump, actually has a negative favorability rating while Sanders has a significant positive rating.
From poll
American voters back Clinton over Trump 47 – 40 percent. In other matchups:
Clinton gets 44 percent to Rubio’s 43 percent;
Clinton and Cruz are tied 44 – 44 percent.
Sanders tops Trump 51 – 38 percent. In other matchups:
Rubio gets 45 percent to Sanders’ 42 percent;
Cruz gets 44 percent to Sanders’ 43 percent.
Clinton has a negative 43 – 51 percent favorability rating. Other favorability ratings are:
Negative 33 – 59 percent for Trump;
40 – 31 percent for Sanders;
37 – 28 percent for Rubio;
35 – 33 percent for Cruz.
//end poll results
Hillary’s slight lead and Sanders slight lag to Rubio are really virtual dead heats given the margin of error (+-2.9) (as are Clinton vs Cruz and Sanders vs Cruz)
People really need to bust out of the “Sanders is unelectable” myth because it is just that, a myth.
‘If you vote for Hilary over Bernie in the primaries because Bernie “can’t get elected”, ‘ then you aren’t even paying attention. He is far more favorably viewed by a broad spectrum of voters, and polls seem to show him doing better than Clinton over Republicans, which is not surprising. Don’t forget, the Democratic Party nominee has to beat a Republican by winning over enough of the people in the center and on the right. Clinton does not have nearly the appeal as Sanders to those voters, in my opinion.
Totally agreed. I know some Republicans who have expressed admiration for Bernie and complete distrust of Hillary. Most of my friends and acquaintances are sick (and I mean SICK) of the status quo and will vote their conscience. Not their party.
It is funny, politicians make these breathing mouth noises that sound like support of us but then mysteriously morph into policies that suck more joy out of learning and teaching.
Any explanations?
No, I haven’t the $lighe$t idea.
Hillary will be Obama II if she wins. She’ll waffle on the issue but she wants and needs the support of the billionaires and education “reform” (aka: there’s gold in them that hills!) is one of the top items on their agenda.
Don’t kid yourselves: she will cave and we’ll be the worse off for it for another 4 years. No way around it.
Bernie Sanders for president. He might not have as nice a talking head…but he’s honest and he’s not been bought.
Campaign finance reform. No education reform.
And, just think, she’s going to have to run for re-election. Obama’s been bad even in his second term; imagine her first, with Republicans trying to remove her.
“with us or with Wall Street”? Ha, ha, ha, you have to ask? How much did you donate?
I have NEVER found anyone with whom I agree on everything.
There is MUCH I dislike about Hillary and the above people have enumerated some of these things
but
can anyone in their right mind vote for any of the Republican candidates?
Sometimes the choices we have are not good ones and we must choose between the lesser of two evils.
I for one have had enough of the George W mentality and the party of no. I personally believe it is treason when anyone deliberately keeps the government from working as has Mitch and his buddies. There will always be differences of opinion and in a democracy these differences need to be aired and thought about carefully.
However not all views are good ones. The flat earth mentality prevails way too often.
As educators we MUST lead by example and be aware of the larger issues. Of course we are concerned with the things which hinder our ability to educate and fight hard for our rights to educate and our public schools but
education entails the whole gamut of things which affect education and we absolutely must recognize that and not put on blinders.
I hear you on this one, Gordon. But here’s my take, at this point of time:
1) I think Bernie has a better chance vs a Republican than does Hillary. I know people who are Republican who have expressed admiration and trust in Bernie. I don’t know ANY Republicans who like or trust Hillary. At all…and for the same reasons that I won’t vote for her.
2) I’ve been voting the lesser of two evils for way too long. I didn’t like Obama at first and he’s more than confirmed my fears, over the two terms he’s served.
Big money runs Obama and will run Hillary, if she’s elected. Bernie was doing extremely well in the polls and, for some odd reason the media (aka: the billionaires boys club) dropped the ball on him and started following Trump. Billionaires don’t like Bernie because they don’t own him.
Vote Sanders. Push VERY hard for campaign reform laws. That’s how the oligarchs control us. Punch a hole in that spot and the balloon will deflate.
Yes, Julian Basquez, Hillary is another Obama on education.
Deal with it and move on . . .
Agree. Nothing to see here. Move on.