Katrina 'best thing' for N.O. schools: DoE

The biggest decline in educational standards have come since the creation of the Department of Education. I doubt that anybody from the Department of Education has taught one child in New Orleans anything. A lot of people that work for the Department of Education are nonperforming teachers that are being warehouse there.

Katrina was the best thing to ever happen to the Republican knuckle-draggers.

They got to watch poor minorities run for their lives 24/7 on Faux Republican Propagada Channel.

SOMEONE NEEDS TO ASK GRAMPY MCCAIN HOW HE THINKS THE NOLA RECOVERY IS GOING

During his press conference on Tuesday in Baton Rouge, John McCain declared in strong terms that he's voted for every investigation of Hurricane Katrina.
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http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/mccain_i_forgot_two_of_my_key.php

The only problem, as the DNC has been pointing out to reporters, is he voted twice against Democratic proposals to investigate the levee failures.

After a local reporter at his Baton Rouge press conference asked why he voted against forming a commission to investigate the levee failures in New Orleans, McCain insisted that he supported every investigation -- and added that he was "not familiar" with what the reporter was talking about:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ng9q4L3_vU

McCain voted against establishing a commission to investigate the levee failures, in a September 2005 party-line vote in which all Republicans voted against the Democratic proposal.
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http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00229

McCain then repeated that party-line GOP vote against a similar Dem proposal in February 2006.
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http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00006
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A lot of people that work for the Department of Education are nonperforming teachers that are being warehouse there.

Posted by: Crooks_In_DC | January 29, 2010 3:01 PM
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Yeah, they should all be Home Schooled and taught about how Jesus rode a dinosaur and the Earth is flat, right Sparky?

Katrina was the best thing to ever happen to the Republican knuckle-draggers.

They got to watch poor minorities run for their lives 24/7 on Faux Republican Propagada Channel.

Posted by: former Republican | January 29, 2010 3:12 PM

What a repulsive post-

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What a repulsive post-
Posted by: heartburn | January 29, 2010 3:41 PM
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The truth hurts, doesn't it?

"Heckuva Job", heartburn!
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/warnings-went-ignored-as-bush-slashed-flood-defence-budget-to-pay-for-wars-505500.html
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Arne Duncan is easily one of Obama's better appointments. Really looking forward to robust education reform in the near future! If there is one bipartisan effort this could be it. Let's hope.

Too bad a katrina can't hit chicago - it'd be the best thing for the hopelessly corrupt, and formerly run Arne Duncan disgrace.
I guess when you throw ton of taxpayers dollars at something you'll see some improvement.
Imagine of a republican had said the exact same thing - he'd be labeled a racist.

What is Arne Duncan Smoking?
Tin-ear politics aside, notice that he gives not one piece of evidence, not one piece, that test scores are getting better in the New Orleans school system.

Duncan's grade on this assignment? F

THE STATED GOAL OF THE TEACHER'S UNION IS NOT EDUCATION BUT KEEPING TEACHER'S JOBS AND SALARIES. REALLY.

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THE STATED GOAL OF THE TEACHER'S UNION IS NOT EDUCATION BUT KEEPING TEACHER'S JOBS AND SALARIES. REALLY.

Posted by: Bobby Mobbie | January 29, 2010 6:05 PM
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YEAH.....EXCEPT FOR THE 'FACT' THAT YOU CAN'T PROVIDE ANY PROOF TO BACK UP THAT CLAIM..

Try again, Girlfriend....

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Too bad a katrina can't hit chicago
Posted by: worsethanbefore | January 29, 2010 4:55 PM
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THERE'S (see above) THE RIGHT WING MOUTH-BREATHER'S TRUE FEELINGS ABOUT AMERICA, PEOPLE.

KATRINA DIDN'T KILL ENOUGH POOR PEOPLE AND MINORITIES FOR THEIR TASTES, THEY WANT MORE DISASTERS TO HIT TARGETED PARTS OF AMERICA THAT THEY DON'T LIKE.

THE RIGHT WANT'S MORE DEATH, DESTRUCTION AND POVERTY - IT'S THE REPUBLICAN WAY OF DOING BUSINESS!

"It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and
there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that
our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist
economy than our own market economy."
-- Albert Shanker, former AFT president, The Wall Street Journal, October 2,1989
The American Federation of Teachers falls under the AFL-CIO umbrella, a coalition of industrial unions.

The AFT has its roots in a number of urban teachers' unions from the early 1900s.

AFT affiliates are primarily located in larger cities, such as New York City, Detroit, Chicago, Washington, DC, New Orleans, and Los Angeles.

The AFT has about 1.2 million members - most of them school employees. The union has also organized health care personnel as well as day care workers, with the assistance of ACORN.

The union's most famous president arguably has been Albert Shanker, who has his roots in New York City's United Federation of Teachers. While Shanker is credited with being reform-minded, his reforms always were couched in the belief that they would not harm his organization.

HERE'S YOUR PROOF TINKERBELL: ANY QUESTIONS?

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"Despite what some of us would like to believe, it is not because of our creative ideas. It is not because of the merit of our positions. It is not because we care about children. And it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child.
NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power."

We can entertain dissatisfaction with the DOE ala those who went to public school for 12 years but never learned to read. Maybe they will respond; please chime in, you sad sack illiterates.

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HERE'S YOUR PROOF TINKERBELL: ANY QUESTIONS?
Posted by: Bobby Mobbie | January 29, 2010 8:31 PM
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HUH? YOU THINK THAT THAT RIGHT WING TALKING POINT VIDEO PROVES YOUR POINT? HAHAHA!!!!

THAT PROVES NOTHING...

TRY AGAIN, PAID TROLL.

AND I THINK WE'RE ALL AWARE OF THE FACT THAT YOU'RE TRYING (and failing) TO FIND A SOME WAY TO BASH UNIONS BY TYING IT TO EDUCATION.

IDEOLOGE WINGNUTS LIKE YOU HATE EDUCATION BECAUSE IF PEOPLE ARE EDUCATED THEY ARE BOUND TO LEARN THAT REPUBLICANS (like you) ARE FEEDING THEM A LINE OF CRAP IN ORDER TO SELL THEM OUT TO YOUR RICH BILLIONAIRE OVERLORDS.

HHH is that the best you can do, sad. I see you're a mind reading now, seeing how you think you know me, what a joke. Try a fact for once you drip.

Thank god I'm NOT a Conservative, really. Try to show that is was it has not become.

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We can entertain dissatisfaction with the DOE ala those who went to public school for 12 years but never learned to read. Maybe they will respond; please chime in, you sad sack illiterates.
Posted by: 3pieknow | January 29, 2010 8:37 PM
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I don't see what Republicans are whining about here.

99.9% of the sad sack illiterates in this country "graduate" to being lifetime members of the Republican party (the base) - without the low IQ goobers, Republican leadership wouldn't be able to dupe anyone into voting for their tax cuts for Billionaires proposals because they would know better.

Exhibit A:
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NO I'M BASHING ONLY EDUCATION BECAUSE IT HAS PROVEN TO BE AN INEFFECTIVE, INEFFICIENT, CORRUPT ENTITY. THROWING MORE MONEY DOWN THIS HOLE HAS NEVER IMPROVED RESULTS. RESULTS DON'T IMPROVE BECAUSE IT IS A UNION-RUN, UNMOTIVATED, LIBERAL BASTION OF FAILURE. GOT IT?

Bobby Mobbie you got that right. Most school systems are no longer ran in a way that tries to better the student they are there for the unions and bureaucrats. If they were really concerned about educational standards a lot of the deadwood that call themselves teachers would be cut and kicked to the curb where they belong. Call me heartless but anybody that had to attend a public school or has had to deal with the public education system knows that it is weighed to benefit the workers and not the children. Since the creation of the Department of Education there has been a steady decline in educational standards. Can anybody name one child that the Department of Education has taught? All the Department of Education has done is raise the cost of education and create a boondoggle in regulations that most have nothing to do with teaching the children. I imagine Benjamin Franklin would spin in his grave if he knew of a thing called the Department of Education.

You liberals really need to go back to school...and finish 6th grade. Maybe then you can rise above the inane and juvenile name calling, but education isn't for everyone. That's why they have unions.

In Los Angeles, 80 percent of 9th grade students WANT to go to college. By the time they are scheduled to exit the public education system, 60% drop out.

What a tragic failure.

Duncan, Obama's hand-picked Secretary of Education, oversaw a district where 60% of the students dropped out before graduation, and those that did not drop out had test scores barely above random, all the while spending over $17,000 per student.

No information on test scores, no information on graduation rates, no information on any quantifiable level of performance, only that "the progress that they've made in four years since the hurricane is unbelievable."

That's a nice way to put it.

Contrary to some comments, there are some excellent public schools in Chicago. But their one common denominator: Parents committed to quality education coupled with school staffs with the same criterion. You can have the best school and staff in the world, but if you have disinterested and uncommitted parents and students, it also will fail.

Derrick, the education department does its best to encourage parents to be disinterested. Those administrators don't take kindly to parents wanting a good, quality education for their children. The elite educators know best. That's why big cities all across the nation have the worst test scores and dismal drop out rates.

AND, you don't see the elitists taking blame now do you? OH NO, it's because of parents and overcrowding and not enough money. They have been singing that song for 50 years. Meanwhile, these very same elitist educators have received everything they asked for: more and more and more money. Teachers unions, their handpicked curriculum, constant meetings for staff, lavish conferences paid for by the taxpayer at 4 star hotels, more and higher paid administration that eats up obscene amount of the budget, and on and on.

All it takes for a child to learn is a good teacher and an interesting presentation. What's so hard here? Drop all the administration, including the DOE and just hire good teachers and present learning in a fun, interesting way.