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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (45752)	10/13/2000 10:39:30 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Teachers are still the sort who could only get in to teaching colleges. Bureaucratic control insures the bums don't get culled and the heroes don't get properly rewarded, let alone emulated." And whose fault is that, locally elected school boards perhaps? I'm skeptical that the Bush plan does nothing to attack the systemic problem of poor public schools, other than to make the poor ones poorer without guaranteeing to ALL students a decent education. Simply another example of favors for the favored few--the top priority of a party committed to saving the elite and providing welfare for corporations. Art