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WASHINGTON Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Monday said Chicago teachers are turning their backs on thousands of students and that President Barack Obama is rooting for the striking educators. Obamas top spokesman said the president has not taken sides but is urging both the teachers and the city to settle quickly.
Chicagos mayor, Obama ally Rahm Emanuel, called Romneys statement lip service as the dispute in the nations third-largest school system inserted itself into the hard-fought presidential campaign.
Hours before he was set to land in Chicago to raise money for his White House bid, Romney released a statement that promised to side with the parents and students depending on public schools to give them the skills to succeed. He said he was disappointed with Chicago teachers, who walked off the job in Chicagos first schools strike in 25 years.
At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney said Obama was monitoring the situation in his hometown but was not itching to take on a role in the dispute.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-says-chicago-teachers-turn-backs-on-students-obama-favors-unions-over-education/2012/09/10/61f08d6c-fb66-11e1-98c6-ec0a0a93f8eb_story.html
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)does that mean Mitt is a Chicago-style politician?
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)porphyrian
(18,530 posts)Squinch
(50,774 posts)The only way to get education standards up is to have higher paid professional teachers.
Vote here if you support the unions: http://bit.ly/CTUvote
ieoeja
(9,748 posts)Everybody, administration and teachers, have come out and said that they are in complete agreement on pay. Pay is unequivocally not an issue.
The big issue is judging teachers by the quality of pupils they have to teach. The last few years have seen numerous public run schools handed over to privately run charters because of a lack of progress in test scores. The charters then make great progress ... by kicking out the low performing students. These students then travel to other public schools where they begin lowering the scores of that school. And so it continues.
In addition, they are protesting classroom conditions, Zero Tolerance policies, etc. But listening to the teachers talk, the passion comes out when they start talking about NCLB.