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cali

(114,904 posts)
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 03:04 PM Sep 2012

Romney says Chicago teachers turn backs on students, Obama favors unions over education

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. Obama’s top spokesman said the president has not taken sides but is urging both the teachers and the city to settle quickly.

Chicago’s mayor, Obama ally Rahm Emanuel, called Romney’s statement “lip service” as the dispute in the nation’s 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 Chicago’s 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

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Romney says Chicago teachers turn backs on students, Obama favors unions over education (Original Post) cali Sep 2012 OP
Romney attacks teachers, uses student as pawns, plans to gut education funding. n/t ProSense Sep 2012 #1
so Mitt is siding with Rahm Enrique Sep 2012 #2
CPS Parent Matt Farmer Downwinder Sep 2012 #3
Romney says lots of shit, none of which is credible any more (if ever). n/t porphyrian Sep 2012 #4
When mitt is "disappointed" with you, you know you're doing something right. Squinch Sep 2012 #5
Fuck Romney Zadoc Sep 2012 #6
Chicago teachers are striking over No Child Left Behind, not pay. ieoeja Sep 2012 #7

Zadoc

(195 posts)
6. Fuck Romney
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 03:47 PM
Sep 2012

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)
7. Chicago teachers are striking over No Child Left Behind, not pay.
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 04:31 PM
Sep 2012

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.

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