Race to Top fiasco about arrogance, not Obama

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640

Rachel Maddow took a stray comment in Charles Stiles’ Saturday column and ran with it, offering the Race to the Top fiasco as an example of Republican “Obama Derangement Syndrom.” The folks at Blue Jersey, where I occasionally post, loved it, but I think it overplays the Obama angle in what was really just an example of the kind of arrogant bullying we will see over the next three-and-a-half years from Gov. Chris Christie.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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  1. Usually, step one for Christie is blame the NJEA,blame the NJEA and blame the NJEA. Christie is determined to gut our public schools and as a side \”benefit,\” to kill off the NJEA. NJ has one of the top rated public school systems in the country. We are doing much better than the states that don't have teachers' unions or have greatly weakened unions. Obama's RTTT is atrocious and not even educationally sound. The evidence and data are in and charter schools are no better than public schools and often worse. The only reason that all the pols are pro Charter schools and school vouchers is because the big money is behind this push to kill public schools. Big money being Gates, Dell, the Broad Foundation, the Koch brothers, Walmart and Wall Street hedge fund managers.

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