Friday, February 26, 2010

Even more....

Teachers, parents, and students are frightened about the talk that has come out of the mouth of John Kasich, Republican candidate for governor, and former director for the now bankrupt Lehman Brothers. If Kasich cuts education by eliminating the state income tax, the entire state will become a disaster area.


Toledo Blade:

Gov. Ted Strickland was cheered by members of the Ohio Federation of Teachers at a convention in Toledo Friday as he lambasted political opponents who want to eliminate the state income tax or are "cheerleaders for failure."
Mr. Strickland said Ohio’s "evidence-based model" education reform plan that he helped pass last year was recognized as the most innovative education plan in the country by the nonprofit Education Commission of the States....
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State Sen. Gary Cates (R., West Chester) criticized the award as "political" and said the state is undeserving....

Strickland is right. Cates, Kasich, Husted and the rest of them want Ohio's schools to fail so that they can let their buddies/campaign contributors put charter schools all over the state.