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Issues / Raising the Bar on Education

Mitt Romney and Charter schools

Press Releases, Quotes, Speeches, and Videos from Mitt Romney about Charter Schools Policy: organized by year

Governor Mitt Romney "Charter School" Quotes

“Charter schools are important centers for innovation, achievement and accountability in education. It is especially important for parents with children in low-performing districts to have an alternative, and I will continue to fight any measure that would restrict this choice or the addition of new charters.”
- Governor Mitt Romney, 05-03-2006 Press Release

“Charter schools embrace innovative educational practices that encourage competition and hold teachers and administrators accountable for the academic achievement of their students. Choice within the Massachusetts public school system should be available to all parents, particularly those with children in our low-performing districts.”
- Governor Mitt Romney, 05-05-2005 Press Release

Governor Mitt Romney "Charter School" Press Release

2006

05-03-2006; Governor Mitt Romney grants charters to three new public schools

Charter School Debate

Also see Mitt's Education page.

School Choice and Charter Schools

Books to Read

De-Schooling Society by Ivan Illitch

Websites

http://fornits.com/gatto/

Google

http://www.doe.mass.edu/charter/

http://www.masscharterschools.org/

http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/charter.asp

http://www.lighthouse.chtr.k12.ma.us/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school

http://www.parker.org/

http://www.rivervalleycharter.org/index.php

http://www.essentialschools.org/

http://www.nlns.org/NLWeb/Index.jsp

http://www.uscharterschools.org/pub/uscs_docs/index.htm

http://www.edreform.com/index.cfm?fuseAction=section&pSectionID=14&cSectionID=34

http://www.nea.org/charter/index.html

http://www.charterassociation.org/home.asp

http://www.cacharterschools.org/

http://www.charterschool.org/

http://www.ade.state.az.us/charterschools/info/

http://www.penncharter.com/root.asp?display=flash

Mitt Romney has said: “The defeat of this radical and violent faction of Islam must be achieved through a combination of American resolve, international effort, and the rejection of violence by moderate, modern, mainstream Muslims. An effective strategy will involve both military and diplomatic actions to support modern Muslim nations. America must help lead a broad-based international coalition that promotes secular education, modern financial and economic policies, international trade, and human rights.”

Lets contrast that with Hillary Clinton. Hillary believes that America can not preach secular education in the Muslim world and promote vouchers at home. Here is the video:

First parent who comes says, ‘I want to send my daughter to St. Peter’s Roman Catholic School’ and you say ‘Great, wonderful school, here’s your voucher.’

Next parent who comes says, ‘I want to send you know my child to the Jewish Day-school’. ‘Great here’s your voucher.’

Next parent says, ‘I want to send my child to the private school that I have always dreamed of sending my child to’. ‘Fine here’s your voucher.’

Next parent says, ‘I want to send my child to I want to send my child to the school of the Church of the White Supremacist.’ You say, ‘wait a minute. You can’t send, we are not giving you a voucher for that.’ And the parent says, ‘Well the way that I read Genesis, Cain was marked, therefore I believe in white supremacy. And therefore you gave it to a Catholic parent, you gave it to a Jewish parent, you gave it to a secular private school parent, under the Constitution, you can’t discriminate against me.’

Suppose the next parent comes and says, ‘I want to send my child to the school of jihad.’ ‘Wait a minute. We are not going to send a child with tax payers dollars to the school of Jihad.’ ‘Well you gave it to a Catholics, you gave it to a Jews, you gave it to the private secular people. You going to tell me I can’t. I’m a tax payer. Under the constitution.’

Now tell me how we are going to make those choices.

It’s not difficult. All you need is Common Sense.

Speaking of Common Sense, Philip K. Howard wrote a book called, The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America. This book outlines how New York City laws forbidding Mother Theresa from opening a two-story homeless shelter unless she installs an elevator. The project was scraped.

According to Hillary Clinton you can’t have vouchers because people could teach bad things with those vouchers. Using that same logic, we shouldn’t have ropes, because people could do bad things with them.

The media acts like democrats are sophisticated, just because they seek to be counterintuitive. Just because you are counterintuitive does not mean you are smart.

3rd graders understand the stupidity the idea that “you can’t have vouchers because people could teach bad things with those vouchers.” But these are the kind of unsophisticated, stupid things that democrats believe, when even a 3rd grader can find the solution: DON”T GIVE VOUCHERS TO THOSE WHO PREACH HATE! But that would force someone to make a value judgments, and democrats have to tell themselves that they are better that republicans, because they don’t impose their values on others. And so they can’t “judge” jihadist schools or white supremacist schools are bad, they have to outlaw all vouchers!

Do you agree with Mitt Romney that “America must help lead a broad-based international coalition that promotes secular education, modern financial and economic policies, international trade, and human rights.”

Do you think that American tax payer funded schools should promote a secular education in the Islamic world? In America? Do you agree with Hillary Clinton that we should not have vouchers?

Do you agree with Romney’s education policy?

http://myclob.pbwiki.com/Education

Do you agree with Romney’s support of Charter Schools?

http://myclob.pbwiki.com/Charter-Schools

Do you agree with me that democrats oversimplify things more than Republicans, and that Hillary’s logic shows has some major problems?

Appreciate any feedback.