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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (720)	9/19/2000 4:27:32 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Tracking poll: Gore continues to hold narrow lead For first time, more think Gore will win By CNN Polling Director Keating Holland WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Vice President Al Gore continues to hold a narrow lead over presidential rival Texas Gov. George W. Bush in today's CNN/USA Today/Gallup tracking poll. The numbers reveal a presidential race essentially unchanged, with the Democrat Gore's support remaining in the high 40s while Republican Bush's numbers are in the low- to mid-40s. Interviews with 741 likely voters, conducted September 15-17, show Gore drawing 48 percent of the survey's voters, while Bush pulls the support of 43 percent, a lead of five points. Since the poll has a sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points, Gore's lead does fall within the statistical margin of error. For the first time in this campaign, more voters believe that Al Gore will win the election: 54 percent now think Gore will win in November, up from 34 percent in late August. And Gore's favorable rating, which rose to a new high of 61 percent after the Democratic convention, has maintained at that level since then. Bush's favorable rating, however, has dropped from a personal best of 67 percent after the GOP convention to 61 percent after the Democratic conclave, to just 52 percent today. Joe Lieberman's favorable rating is at 58 percent, a drop from his 65 percent figure after the Democratic convention but still higher than Dick Cheney's 52 percent favorable rating. The two presidential candidate's approval ratings show the same pattern, with the number of voters who approve of how Gore has handled his job as vice president holding steady in the post-convention season while the number who approve of Bush's record as Texas Governor has dropped. The Summer Olympic Games, however, may put the election in a holding pattern for a few weeks. Most voters say that if they could only watch one thing on television in the next few weeks, they would choose the Olympics. Only 39 percent would pick coverage of the presidential election over the Olympics. CNN will be releasing the results on its tracking polls every day until the November 7 elections. The polls monitor public opinion of the presidential race over intervals of two to three days.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (720)	9/19/2000 10:36:17 PM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 10042

<Right now there is no nationwide standard that is enforced for displaying nationwide student aptitude and/progress.> NYS has made an Academic Diploma necessary in order to graduate High School. That means passing a standard Algebra and Geometry Regents, along with two Sciences, English, Global and American History. You can't get a general HS diploma in NYS anymore. Even Special Ed. kids have to pass the Academic requirements or they don't get a HS diploma. As usual, Bush is a little to late. <Challenging both teachers and students to perform to a certain standard is VITALLY important. > How inspiring, Ron! But first you got to hire the teachers. There is a massive shortage of teachers here in NY. No one wants the job. The Board of Ed. is trying to fill the shortage from overseas, where many don't even speak English well enough from the standpoint of a second language. Did you know that over 80% of new teachers here leave after 5 years? <And holding school accountable for the performance of their students progress by virtue of the purse strings is key to that.> Ron, many schools have closed up around here because the vast majority of the students at their schools have done poorly on English and Math State Tests. Now we have overcrowding in our classrooms with 45 students in a class in many instances. Want to come and teach here, Ron? We are very accountable. <We've learned from the past several decades that throwing money at education, without demanding accountability and performance, is nothing more than a recipe for continued failure.> They better start throwing some more money at new teachers or when the old hacks from the NEA and UFT retire with their fat pensions, they will have to close down the schools from lack of teachers. The Private school situation is even worse here. It is common for a child to go through 3 or 4 teachers in the primary grades. Music and Art teachers teach math and science in High school. Most private schools don't have a majority of their faculty that is teacher certified. <Bush also is recommending that schools be held more accountable to individual parents, reinvigorating the influence of the local PTAs over the NEA.> Get with it, Ron. Schools have always existed in theory for the sake of the community, not the other way around. The problem is that in a single parent home, where the mother gets home late at night from working a few jobs to make ends meat, there is no time to go to a PTA meeting. In the better neighborhoods, the PTA already runs the school, as well they should, since it is their school. Education is not a partisan political issue for me Ron, as it is for you. I'm in the business. I own a learning center. I hear all the stories every day straight from the horses mouth, from the children who come to my learning center because they get meager portions of learning from their public and private schools.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (720)	9/19/2000 10:40:01 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Right now there is no nationwide standard that is enforced for displaying nationwide student aptitude and/progress.> NYS has made an Academic Diploma necessary in order to graduate High School. That means passing a standard Algebra and Geometry Regents, along with two Sciences, English, Global and American History Regents. You can't get a general HS diploma in NYS anymore. Even Special Ed. kids have to pass the Academic requirements or they get no HS diploma. As usual, Bush is a little to late. <Challenging both teachers and students to perform to a certain standard is VITALLY important. > How inspiring, Ron! But first you got to hire the teachers. There is a massive shortage of teachers here in NY. No one wants the job. The Board of Ed. is trying to fill the shortage from overseas, where many don't even speak English well enough from the standpoint of a second language. Did you know that over 80% of new teachers here leave after 5 years? <And holding school accountable for the performance of their students progress by virtue of the purse strings is key to that.> Ron, many schools have closed up around here because the vast majority of the students at their schools have done poorly on English and Math State Tests. Now we have overcrowding in our classrooms with 45 students in a class in many instances. Want to come and teach here, Ron? We are very accountable. <We've learned from the past several decades that throwing money at education, without demanding accountability and performance, is nothing more than a recipe for continued failure.> They better start throwing some more money at new teachers or when the old hacks from the NEA and UFT retire with their fat pensions, they will have to close down the schools from lack of teachers. The Private school situation is even worse here. It is common for a child to go through 3 or 4 teachers in the primary grades. Music and Art teachers teach math and science in High school. Most private schools don't have a majority of their faculty that is teacher certified. <Bush also is recommending that schools be held more accountable to individual parents, reinvigorating the influence of the local PTAs over the NEA.> Get with it, Ron. Schools have always existed in theory for the sake of the community, not the other way around. The problem is that in a single parent home, where the mother gets home late at night from working a few jobs to make ends meat, there is no time to go to a PTA meeting. In the better neighborhoods, the PTA already runs the school, as well they should, since it is their school. Education is not a partisan political issue for me Ron, as it is for you. I'm in the business. I own a learning center. I hear all the stories every day straight from the horses mouth, from the children who come to my learning center because they get meager portions of learning from their public and private schools.