Comments on: Ed in the election: Obama and Romney spar over education spending in first presidential debate

By: HechingerEd Blog | Ed in the Election: Obama and Romney advisors debate education spending

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:18:41 +0000

[...] educational philosophies, which were sometimes blurred when Romney and Obama themselves debated earlier this month. (Disclaimer: The Hechinger Report is published by an independent institute based at Teachers [...]

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Saturday Children and the Law News Roundup | Children and the Law Blog — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 03:09:36 +0000

[...] Ed in the election: Obama and Romney spar over education spending in first presidential debate, HechingerEd Blog (Hechinger Report) In the first presidential debate Wednesday night, President Obama and Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney immediately dove into an often neglected topic on the campaign trail: education. [...]

By: B Fitz

B Fitz — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:55:32 +0000

The number of teachers employed is a decision that should be left to the States, which is the body that is charged with doing so. The Federal Gov’t needs to get out of the business of trying to make people in one part of the country pay for teachers being hired in another part of the country. The taxes I pay to my state should hire teachers for MY children’s school, not those in another. The last time I checked the National Teacher’s Assn’s website there were over 3.6 million teachers in the US. Our population is reported to be somewhere around 314 million, with approximately 50 million school aged children. Thats about 1 teacher for every 87 people in this country and 1 per 14 students. Since I was a kid the ratio of kids to teachers has gone steadily downward, yet the quality of education seems to be getting worse, not better. For far too long the Democrats in DC have tried to re-distribute money to places it wasn’t raised and doesn’t belong. The quality of the schools in my area is a reason why I moved here. Why should the taxes I pay be shipped off to another state? Perhaps some states need to quit looking to Washington to solve their problems, stop handing out all of the local tax dollars to programs for illegals, make their own citizens pay their taxes and get rid of the illegal aliens in our classrooms? Then maybe we could afford to pay for all those teachers in our OWN schools.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:26:59 +0000

What has Obama really done in 4 years? Education has seen more cuts, but he bails out greedy car company’s! Putting us in deeper debt than ever before. I have been in education for 20 years, we need an overhaul! Too many OVER PAID Administrators has killed our education! As a teacher we are on the front lines and have gotten very little money or recognition. Can the president really effect the kind of change we need?