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And we have a President that pays lip service to better education, but pleas for help fall on his deaf ears and yield only politically-motivated attempts at censorship...
"President Obama isn’t taking kindly to a television ad that criticizes his opposition to a popular scholarship program for poor children, and his administration wants the ad pulled. Former D.C. Councilmember Kevin Chavous of D.C. Children First said October 16 that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder had recently approached him and told him to kill the ad..." Attorney General Eric Holder Tries to Kill a TV ad for School Vouchers. | Chicago Daily Observer
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So you can state your opinion but I cant state mine? I cant point out that you appear to have a double standard since you are complaining about republicans using the net for talking points while the democrats do it
America's schools could and should be better. They're certainly not as bad as Stossel would have you think they are by watching his baloney.
Think again...
Public school student achievement is actually much lower than most people think. Each state's education officials establish their own state standards, commission/construct their own tests, and set their own 'passing' scores. This has resulted in manipulations that make it look like public schools are educating our country's children, when in reality the majority of students in many states are far below acceptable levels of proficiency. In some cases, there's as much as a 70 percentage point difference in proficiency levels between state achievement tests and the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) tests. Not one state listed in the chart below educates even half of their students to grade-level proficiency on the NAEP.
If anyone wants to see their (or any other) state's reported proficiency level vs. the NAEP proficiency level (to see if their public schools are being honest about providing an adequate education), check here: NAEP Researchcenter - NAEP and State Equivalent Percent Table
For each grade level, the first column lists the percentage of students scoring as proficient (meets or exceeds state standards) on the state test; the second column lists the percentage of students scoring as proficient on the NAEP (National Assessment).
Keep in mind that these comparisons were made after NCLB was enacted, when schools knew that they had to improve their academic performance - and they're still educating less than half of the nation's public school students to grade-level proficiency.
The more the Republicans speak the more people hear how ridiculous they sound.
We need a universal health care system. We do not need private health insurance companies. They can go and insure something else.
Funny how you dems can figure out what everyone needs and not sound a little silly now and then. I do not need universal health care, I like the policy we have.
Some silly dem things: Cow farts are ruining the planet. We should ban hamburgers because some people can't help but stuff themselves therefore nobody gets a burger. Now we should not have pets at all and eating the dog may be an answer? Time to Eat the Dog is a recently released book by anti pet people. I think you people take the Oscar in silly.
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