Mike Klonsky reports on the Trump plan to get rid of public education, as described by Carl Paladino, a Trump surrogate and far-right extremist who owns charter schools in Buffalo, New York.
“If there was any doubt, Trump surrogate Carl Paladino made it perfectly clear that if his boss is elected his goal will be nothing less than the elimination of public education and complete liquidation of the nation’s teacher unions.
Paladino ran for governor against Cuomo and lost. He is the Trump of upstate New York.
Klonsky writes:
“Paladino, Trump’s N.Y State co-chairman told a group of urban school superintendents yesterday, that Trump would seek to do away with “corrupted, incompetent” public school systems in America’s cities, replacing them with charter schools and vouchers for private schools.”
Clinton may or may not continue Obama’s disastrous education policies, but she will listen when we push back.
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Diane Ravitch's blog 
DRUMPH!
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The list of politicians who do not wish to curtail or eliminate the role of public school education is short indeed. Wall Street will maintain Clinton’s feet at a comfortable temperature. Let us not be deluded into confusing fantasy with reality.
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Where’s the billionaires’ boys club for public schools? One of the great achievements of this country is the “free” public schools open to all who are residents of a given district. The reformers want to destroy all that in the name of “free” market solutions and privatization. President Trump would put the final stake in the heart of our public schools while Hillary will do Obama-lite or God knows what? As I’ve said before, I’m not at all optimist about HRC’s future educational policies but education is not the only issue and there are other important issues that compel me to vote for HRC. How do we break out of the duopoly?
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The hyper-conservative evangelicals and alt-right are doubling down on local politics. They are realizing national races are an increasingly lost cause to force their extreme views on a majority of the country, especially given more secular beliefs and changing demographics. Tip O’Neill was right, all politics is local.
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Trump and company would like nothing more than to crush public education and turn the “jackpot” of funding over to private equity with little to no oversight and accountability. If the voters allow it to happen, Trump will destroy public education and go after public universities next.
Hillary is serious about taking Florida. She sent Bill to the ultra conservative panhandle yesterday to hold rallies in Panama City and Pensacola. I am happy to report that Bill was given a warm welcome from a diverse crowd in Pensacola. The deplorables stayed away, and there were no ugly incidents. The silver fox made his case for Hillary: experience, jobs, and helping the working class. Upon leaving, he even posed for a selfie with a man wearing a Trump shirt. If Bill’s appearance inspires more minorities, whose presence is often overlooked here, to vote for Hillary, it was a worthy trip.
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He did say yesterday, after his lawsuit diatribe, that he will get rid of Common Core in his first 100 days.
Oh yeah….
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Since Common Core was the garbage force fed to our public schools, perhaps Mr Trump is correct when he says he will get rid of it…
After all, if he can use his pet dragon Paladino to destroy public schools in 99 days, there would be no more by the one hundredth day.
I think Trump’s response was a general scoop thrown to the public…a “bread and circus” response…meant to soothe, but only soothe.
If he truly wanted to “make America great again”…one way he could demonstrate this would be to protect and strengthen our public schools.
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The article is not the one I was looking for it is slightly older but probably what last weeks article was referring to.
This scares the hell out of me. What made Bernie preform so well against all republican candidates was HE WAS GETTING THE YOUTH VOTE. to make up for this weakness. Poor people and Minorities don’t generally vote in the numbers they should.
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Are we sure he knows Common Core is a set of education standards/ aligned curriculum’s and not a type of fruit.
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And you just touched on Hillary’s biggest problem will the minority vote turn out . Will the Youth vote turn out . The fact that Stein is only polling at a 1-2 percent indicates the youth vote is not going her way.
So where are they. It baffles me why Bill is considered by Blacks , but so be it.
If Hillary does not succeed it will not be because us sixty something progressives did not vote for her . It will be because the Obama base stayed home.
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Maybe Stein should play some her albums.
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I think Bill was sent to drum up minority voters in the panhandle. The event was held in a community center in a black neighborhood in Pensacola. The crowd was about 75% white, but it was good to see minorities as well.
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Joel…I have spent about 8 hours a week on community college campuses over the last 6 weeks, registering first time voters, and talking with students. Most have registered as Dems, but not all.
The 18 – 26 year old group pushed Obama over the top, and they hopefully will vote now to do the same for Hillary. Although most claim they will vote, many are disgusted with this process and have little faith in the how the country is governed. And there is also the percentage that have NO idea about any of this, and seem not to care at all…which makes an aged educator really sad and worried.
I have spent a like amount of time in my county in front of a popular Latino grocery store also registering voters. There, the enthusiasm for voting in this election is huge and they all were excited to be voting for Hillary, and all registered as Dem. This is a true sociological lesson for me, and for the nation. tRump will never learn that all Mexicans are NOT rapists, and that he will never get that wall built…but these new voters will have LONG memories. It will definitely affect the down ballot elections as well.
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I was an ESL teacher for several decades. I worked mostly with Haitians and Latinos. I never politicized my classroom other than to talk about the importance and civic duty of voting. When students asked me my opinion privately, I told them I supported progressives. I never once had a student in favor of Republicans. The deplorables will be in big trouble in the future if they continue their exclusionary tactics.
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My last post should have been here.
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retired teacher
One of my most depressing moments was at the Democracy (Spring)Awakening Demonstration in Washington. A key theme of the Demonstration was the disenfranchisement of minority voters through
bullsh-t voter ID laws that sought to correct a non existent problem.
Poor people and minorities in American cities are not voting twice, the problem is too many are not voting once. (Old White men and women do vote).
The depressing part the Reverend William Barber was one of the few Black faces in the crowd. In a majority Black community. Perhaps Trump has a point. (not a solution) too many broken promises. I hope those former students of yours prove me wrong.
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But aren’t public schools a state thing?
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IF, big if, but now looking maybe possible, Democrats could take both the Senate and House, Bernie would have tremendous power in the Senate. For that we could all wish. Something then might get done in a positive fashion.
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In a shocking on-line video, of a Buffalo school board meeting, Paladino can be seen summoning a police officer over, as if he was a waiter. Paladino appeared to want the officer to evict a citizen, from the meeting.
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The Refund America Project, by the Roosevelt Institute, recently published a report, based on 19 universities, that showed the schools lost $2.7 bil., to toxic financial deals, like interest rate swaps.
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