If Donald Trump has his way Russia will surpass the USA in any achievement. It looks like "W" has laid the framework for the failure of the USA educational system, Trump just needs to finish it.
October 21, 2016
By Scott Powers
After laying out his wife’s education plans (click here) from universal prekindergarten through college student loan refinancing, former President Bill Clinton told a Florida’s teachers’ union Friday in Orlando that “if she becomes president, you will have a partner in the White House.”
Clinton’s 35-minute speech to the Florida Education Association delegate conference at the Rosen Centre lightly portrayed Donald Trump‘s vision as that of pessimism, craziness, and longings for the past, while Hillary Clinton‘s vision is forward-thinking, aimed at making public education integral to economic improvement.
The former Democratic president cited Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan‘s song “Forever Young,” and then argued, “The way you stay forever young is to have your dreams for other people always outweigh your memories of yesterday, no matter how good it was.
“This country, and the emphasis we have put on education from our beginning have kept us forever young. It will keep us always imagining a different tomorrow. We have got to stop the craziness of trying to bring each other down to the lowest common denominator,” Clinton said....
This is not America.
This generation is lucky to find a job they are looking for and when they do their student loans prevent them from purchasing a home. When this generation overcomes the hurdle of student loans to homeownership, they can't get a loan because the Republicans removed all assurances of continued employment. Amazing. What next?
October 12, 2016
Not much more could fit in Lisa Lugo's two-bedroom apartment, (click here) so she went to the bank this summer to inquire about a mortgage for a house.
Everything was working out. She had just scored her first full-time teaching job at St. Petersburg's Lakewood Elementary.
"And I kind of hit a wall," said Lugo, 22. "They said (no) basically because I can't promise I will have a job next year that pays this much."
Lugo is one of thousands of teachers in Florida hired after 2011, when Gov. Rick Scott signed a law eliminating teacher tenure. Since then, teachers not grandfathered into the old system must work under contracts that have to be renewed every year, and districts don't need a reason to let them go.
But 38 school districts statewide, including two in Tampa Bay, have found a way to give a sense of job security for teachers in good standing, and Pinellas County hopes to join their ranks this week....
October 21, 2016
By Scott Powers
After laying out his wife’s education plans (click here) from universal prekindergarten through college student loan refinancing, former President Bill Clinton told a Florida’s teachers’ union Friday in Orlando that “if she becomes president, you will have a partner in the White House.”
Clinton’s 35-minute speech to the Florida Education Association delegate conference at the Rosen Centre lightly portrayed Donald Trump‘s vision as that of pessimism, craziness, and longings for the past, while Hillary Clinton‘s vision is forward-thinking, aimed at making public education integral to economic improvement.
The former Democratic president cited Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan‘s song “Forever Young,” and then argued, “The way you stay forever young is to have your dreams for other people always outweigh your memories of yesterday, no matter how good it was.
“This country, and the emphasis we have put on education from our beginning have kept us forever young. It will keep us always imagining a different tomorrow. We have got to stop the craziness of trying to bring each other down to the lowest common denominator,” Clinton said....
This is not America.
This generation is lucky to find a job they are looking for and when they do their student loans prevent them from purchasing a home. When this generation overcomes the hurdle of student loans to homeownership, they can't get a loan because the Republicans removed all assurances of continued employment. Amazing. What next?
October 12, 2016
Not much more could fit in Lisa Lugo's two-bedroom apartment, (click here) so she went to the bank this summer to inquire about a mortgage for a house.
Everything was working out. She had just scored her first full-time teaching job at St. Petersburg's Lakewood Elementary.
"And I kind of hit a wall," said Lugo, 22. "They said (no) basically because I can't promise I will have a job next year that pays this much."
Lugo is one of thousands of teachers in Florida hired after 2011, when Gov. Rick Scott signed a law eliminating teacher tenure. Since then, teachers not grandfathered into the old system must work under contracts that have to be renewed every year, and districts don't need a reason to let them go.
But 38 school districts statewide, including two in Tampa Bay, have found a way to give a sense of job security for teachers in good standing, and Pinellas County hopes to join their ranks this week....
