Bush's Secretary of Education likens teachers to Osama bin Laden...
I had heard about this when it happened a couple of weeks ago, was pissed then and am still now. Here's what happened. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, while speaking to the nation's state governors at a conference in Washington D.C., called the National Education Association (NEA) "terrorists." He was referring to how the nation's largest teacher's union, the NEA, has filed numerous lawsuits against Bush's No Child Left Behind Act.
"This is typical behavior for the Bush administration. It says one thing - "no child left behind" and does another - under-funding its promises to our schools by $9.4 billion in its latest budget proposal. And when people dare to disagree with its policies, it questions their patriotism or labels them terrorists," says MoveOn.org's website.
"Secretary Paige uses insult to defend the indefensible. Not only did the president break his promise to fund the reforms, his current budget calls for cuts in support for schools over the next five years. And he still wants to take billions from public schools to pay for private school vouchers. So Paige resorts to slurs: even in his supposed apology, he dismissed teachers' growing concerns as "obstructionist scare tactics."
Help join the effort to fire Secretary of Education Rod Paige by signing a petition a here.
Also on this topic, Bush has scorned Senator Kerry for his voting record, saying Kerry voted for No Child Left Behind and now does not support it. Guess what, President, a lot of people supported the bill you pushed through, but not the one that came out on the other side. And I guess, in hindsight, that should be no surprise.
I had heard about this when it happened a couple of weeks ago, was pissed then and am still now. Here's what happened. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, while speaking to the nation's state governors at a conference in Washington D.C., called the National Education Association (NEA) "terrorists." He was referring to how the nation's largest teacher's union, the NEA, has filed numerous lawsuits against Bush's No Child Left Behind Act.
"This is typical behavior for the Bush administration. It says one thing - "no child left behind" and does another - under-funding its promises to our schools by $9.4 billion in its latest budget proposal. And when people dare to disagree with its policies, it questions their patriotism or labels them terrorists," says MoveOn.org's website.
"Secretary Paige uses insult to defend the indefensible. Not only did the president break his promise to fund the reforms, his current budget calls for cuts in support for schools over the next five years. And he still wants to take billions from public schools to pay for private school vouchers. So Paige resorts to slurs: even in his supposed apology, he dismissed teachers' growing concerns as "obstructionist scare tactics."
Help join the effort to fire Secretary of Education Rod Paige by signing a petition a here.
Also on this topic, Bush has scorned Senator Kerry for his voting record, saying Kerry voted for No Child Left Behind and now does not support it. Guess what, President, a lot of people supported the bill you pushed through, but not the one that came out on the other side. And I guess, in hindsight, that should be no surprise.
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