Re: NCLB Testimonies of the Corrupt

[aburke5054@aol.com]

Accusing George Miller of aiding and abetting the destruction of public 
education because he gets contributions from corporations makes as much 
sense as accusing the Little Sisters of the Poor of being capitalist 
exploiters because they too get contributions from corporations.

Do you really believe that teachers' unions are opposed to NCLB because 
corporations contribute to George Miller's campaign?  Teachers' unions 
contribute to his campaign also, don't they? Does that mean that 
teachers' unions are also part of the plot against public education?

Have you noticed that the civil-rights community recently rallied 
against proposed legislation that would weaken NCLB's accountability 
requirements, the very requirements that you claim were crafted to 
destroy public education?  This makes the whole "NCLB as the hammer of 
oppression" argument just a wee bit untenable, don't you think?

Art

-----Original Message-----
From: monicalucido@comcast.net
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Sent: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 9:42 pm
Subject: Re: [arn-l] NCLB Testimonies of the Corrupt

I have plenty of evidence at my house that says he IS tied into this. 
Go to his
campaign contributions. It's public. See how many corporations are on 
his donor
list and how often they show up. He is the speaker for that committee. 
He gets
more contributions from publishing, testing, and for-profit education 
companies
than ANYONE on that panel. He is tied in to this. When presented with 
this
evidence to their faces, the CTA (CALIF.) had no choice but to call him 
on it
and rallied (finally) to stop the re-authorization of NCLB last fall. 
He is
certainly aiding and abetting at the very least.


Joe Lucido
EPATA
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: aburke5054@aol.com
> Is George Miller leading the destruction of public education now?
>
> That's pretty far out even for ARN.
>
> Art
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MONICALUCIDO@comcast.net
> To: arn-l@interversity.org
> Cc: ca-resisters@interversity.org
> Sent: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:53 pm
> Subject: [arn-l] NCLB Testimonies of the Corrupt
>
> Here are the latest NCLB testimonies of the leading destroyers of
> public
> education. Now, someone tell how this "pay for performance" crap is 
not
> going to
> destroy the original, intuitive, and creative thinking of our kids? 
See
> all of
> them at this site:
>
> http://edlabor.house.gov/hearings/fc-2008-07-17.shtml
>
>
> Joe Lucido
> Educators and Parents Against Test Abuse
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