Monday, November 30, 2009
Perry's Race to Mediocrity
Your points are well taken. It's disappointing that our state has a chance to finally make some incredible strides in improving all multiple areas of our educational system, but due to our current governor's attitude, public education, once again, could be falling short of true accountability. Federal standards of public education would mean that dismal rankings of low-achieving schools would be front and center, possibly bloodying the nose of the political leadership that espouses serious resolutions to education issues in our state. When one ponders the idea of "Texas exceptionalism", Perry's statement reiterating his opposition to the federal funds for the "Race To The Top " program says it all. It's difficult to see any stellar progress this leadership has made in the area of education and while I appreciate the desire to handle this situation on a state level, it seems entirely appropriate that the time has come to add more accountability to the fixing the problem. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/DN-perryed_25met.ART.State.Edition1.4b932bf.html
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I completely agree, I couldn't have said it better myself. It's good to see that across the party lines in this class that there is just a lot of common sense. Gov.Perry is caught uo right now and is posturing in the way he thinks Republicans want to see him posturing in. But this isn't true from the average Joe, we just want our kids to have some hope and future sense we've screwed a lot of it up. To cut out one more option for our children is terribl. I say take all of it and any of it that is offered our way. I wonder how many schools Gov. Perry has actually visited? You should check out the information on Bill White . What do you think of him as a canidate? http://billwhitefortexas.com/about/
ReplyDeleteI think the results of this election are going to be very interesting indeed.