it s up to democrats across the country to help win this thing. the outcome is important to anyone who supports democratic values no matter where you live. the e-mail went out to millions nationwide and expected to be a boost to their campaign. do you trust mitt romney with public education, 2% said yes and 98% said no. a day before the big debate, milwaukee mayor tom barrett releases a new ad slamming scott walker on his john doe investigation. dogs are the best of the best of the best.
mom and dad together has a big impact. in my view, that s critical down the road. i didn t know schools could get involved in social engineering and control the home life of these kids. how is a two-parent home a valid education policy? how would that work? i don t know. a lot of people are going to be sent to the principal s office, i guess. you know, you talk to people who work in troubled schools. obviously, home life and family life, a variety of issues, not just single parent families and housing and nutrition and other health issues play a role in student performance and students ability to learn. that said, what are you going to do about it? if it affects education starting from the standpoint of the schools, let s first work on the classroom. let s work on what happens in the classroom because that s what you can control. sam, why did he go to philadelphia? i don t know.
singapore and around the united states and said, gosh, in the schools the highest performing in the world, their classroom sizes are about the same in the united states. did he say around the world? you mean mitt romney has a worldly view of education and not american? in other words, forget the real life experiences of teachers in the classroom, mitt romney will liston what a think tank tells him. he doesn t have to do anything and he doesn t know anything about overcrowding or underfunding when it comes to schools and what it will do to them. romney doesn t seem to care, just like he didn t care when he was the governor of massachusetts. in his first year, romney cut education funding to close a $1.2 billion budget gap. the cuts caused local taxes to go up. they also caused layoffs of more than 14,000 teachers, police officers, librarians and other public employees. in 1999, mitt romney said, we
abundant school choice among traditional, public schools, charter and online alternatives. romney doesn t care if the class sizes are overcrowded. more students means more money, to keep the schools in the black, students are another spot on the ledger, another number on the bottom line. it s the romney family way, get a load of this. take the private equity firm solamere capital. romney invested $10 million. the firm s managing partner is his son, tagg romney. he has an investment stakes in ta associates, on thor of several for profit schools. how about that? folks, it isn t about education, about making a dollar. privatizing education takes care of a lot of republican problems. number one, weakens and maybe kills the unions and allows funding cuts for schools so governors can run wild with the budget and hurt kids. most importantly, it increases
more students means more money, to keep the schools in the black, students are another spot on the ledger, another number on the bottom line. it s the romney family way, get a load of this. take the private equity firm solamere capital. romney invested $10 million. the firm s managing partner is his son, tagg romney. he has an investment stakes in ta associates, on thor of several for profit schools. how about that? folks, it isn t about education, about making a dollar. privatizing education takes care of a lot of republican problems. number one, weakens and maybe kills the unions and allows funding cuts for schools so governors can run wild with the budget and hurt kids. most importantly, it increases the profit margins of people like mitt romney and his son. the education of future generations takes a back seat to all of this. for profit. is that where we want to go in