Obama and Duncan to defend education reforms in spite of opposition.

President Obama to defend education plan


The Race to the Top reform program have been criticized for promoting popular but unproven methods in public education. AP



Arne is right about one thing. His money talks in this poor economy. He can get school systems and unions to jump through hoops to get the hundreds of millions he promises.

Looks like the process to "reform" education will continue despite opposition from teachers, unions, parents, and now civil rights groups.

Civil rights groups break with Obama on education.



Their agenda is going to continue no matter who opposes it.

It is the same agenda the Bush administration tried to get through, but we as Democrats fought him.

:sarcasm:

We have 40 students in a class and not enough desks for them yet Arne hoards cash. How is that improving student learning? More students that must achieve higher goals with less support. And I thought being called a terrorist was bad.

We are screwed, and what is happening in education means at least a whole generation lost.

:cry:

Clinton: NAFTA. Welfare to Work.
Gore: Stolen election. (And current smear campaign.)
Kerry: Stolen election. (And smear campaign.)
Obama: Elected.

Makes ME ponder, anyway.

only a Democrat could get away with implementing Republican policies.

Kind of like Nixon goes to China, but worse.

I may wear a tinfoil-hat, but I don't threaten!! :-)

The goals set by these cretins are lower. Just fill in the right circle with the No. 2 pencil.

Dumber curriculum. Lower standards. Less prepared teachers. And we campaigned and voted for the idiot who hired a bigger idiot to put ronald reagan's dreams for schools into effect. I know it's not great form to call the president and idiot, but I would rather think he is a idiot who is clueless about what is happening under his administration than think that he is nasty and mean enough to do this knowing the outcome.

maybe misguided fool is a better term.

the middle class, the emergence of a plantation society

Follow the money.

It's hard to think of it that way when hundreds of thousands of teachers will be gone next year. That money should and could be used to help them out. But when David Obey tried to take some of the money to help teachers from being laid off....the president threatened a veto.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/6415

"Where's the push?"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8822053&mesg_id=8822053

It's all about blaming the victim.

Yes, I DO know who therefore would be in the role of the Devil.

... to thunderous applause as Duncan continues the privatization of education?

:wtf:

and then it will be too late.

in spite of opposition.

So much for the "make me" myth.

I, for one, will continue to oppose it. :(

There is pretense by Arne, but his answers to questions go in circles...he ends up saying nothing but catch phrases.

left by teachers and others who oppose his agenda on ed.gov?

while they full well understand the hard core resistance to this destruction of

public education, evidently someone has more LEVERAGE on them than the voters do -- !!!

I'm concerned they believe they simply don't need teachers nor unions to win elections any longer. The Obama administration
is more than likely going to win the votes of the Hispanic community like never before as a result of the GOP's insane and
immoral stand on immigration and perhaps believes they will have made up for lost labor votes.

The changes taking place are sad to me on many levels, there is nothing substantial in Duncan's past in Chicago that should be identified as a policy to adopt for the nation imo. So Duncan will coerce schools because as he said himself, .."in difficult budget times, nothing produces change as quickly as the opportunity to get more federal funding."


Shameful!

By any chance do you write any letters to the newspapers in your area? You express yourself so well, I just wondered why not
spread the information mainstream perhaps?

I agree btw, no one will likely challenge Obama nor Arne.

when its political class is more afraid of its base than it loves slopping at the corporate trough. They will fear us when we actively, not passively, oppose them, when we stop begging and start demanding, and that requires active organization against them by labor unions either by sitting out or going for the opposition. There it is, unpleasant as it is to say it.

for the American people until we fight for public funded elections. How the hell are we going to come
up with the kind of money Wall Street has, and that is only ONE of the many sources we are up against.

There was an article recently about the labor unions and Jerry Brown, they are dipping deep to help him against Meg Whitman,
but they are not confident that Brown will help them much. They only know for certain that Whitman will be much worse.

Anytime your political choices are between the lesser of two evils you obviously are not being represented in your own representative government.

just keep smiling and wave at the camera.... awwww... all better now.

that he had no opposition to his ideas. How in the world could he be sincere?

Can we show that photograph. The one with Obama and a dick.

Other than that, I'm speechless.

Got that, asshole!

"The right" will not vote for Obama in 2012, AND he alienates public school teachers, his previously most loyal voting block.

Obama has NO INTENTION of doing ANYTHING he doesn't want to do. Opponents can protest until the cows come home but the joke is on them because it's a total waste of time and energy. Obama is arrogant and smug through and through. He is deliberately and permanently deaf and blind to any opposition. Anybody who thinks otherwise is just delusional.

I truly despise this man.

Once again Madfloridian reminds the public of one of Obama's expansion of Republican and Corporate efforts to dismantle public education and break unions. I can only speculate as to why Obama is robbing children of what a public education system that provided most of the nation's children with a competitive education. Sadly, change is not reform and reform does not equal excellent public education where all children make progress. I can not comprehend how the Obama administration can continue to support policies and funding that result in public school systems being forced to reduce the school year, eliminate programs that kept students in school, lay off teachers, and foster strategies that are not proven. I might add that I hate the underlying arrogance that disregards pedagogy. Note to Obama, it is sheer ignorance to think that earning a degree from Harvard or Princeton (or any college) qualifies someone to practice professionally as a teacher, social worker, psychologist, lawyer, economist, accountant. Our children are suffering more under this administration (granted Reagan and Bush started the slide).
We all need to contact our public officials and not stop.

Word.

:puke:

the words "Trojan Horse" have come to mean and who and what could fit into that description.

pulling the rug out from under democracy --

and once again mimics Bush's failed agenda --

We need a very firm message of "NO" to keep going forward on this --

I'm sure many of us will still be voting against GOP in November --

but I doubt we'll actually be voting in support of Obama's performance --

If we can't move Obama to the left, then we need another Democratic candidate in 2012!!

Whitehouse, Feingold, Grayson . . . any recommendations?