{"id":12280,"date":"2010-08-10T02:50:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T02:50:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-10T03:09:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T03:09:57","slug":"what-does-fiorina-have-against-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/10\/what-does-fiorina-have-against-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Fiorina Have Against Teachers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

California’s schools are getting ready for the new school year, and are having to make do with vastly reduced resources. Class sizes have soared, even though it’s widely accepted as fact among educators that smaller class sizes are one of the most effective ways to improve student learning. This article from the San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a> shows the struggles that teachers are facing as they try to deliver quality education to students in an era where governments have decided education is no longer important.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the US Senate has decided that mass teacher layoffs aren’t a good way to run a school system or help our children prepare for the future, and passed a bill last week delivering $26 billion in aid to schools, potentially helping save the jobs of 16,500 teachers in California. Unfortunately the Senate chose to cut the food stamps program for it, but that cut doesn’t take effect until 2014, so hopefully that particularly cruel cut can be reversed.<\/p>\n

Barbara Boxer voted for the bill to save these teachers’ jobs. And so Carly Fiorina has come out against saving these jobs<\/a> – by misstating the way the bill works:<\/p>\n

Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina said Friday that a federal bill designed to provide emergency aid to states will not give schools the immediate financial boost they hope will prevent thousands of teachers from being laid off.<\/p>\n

The former Hewlett-Packard CEO said the legislation working its way through Congress is full of accounting tricks that will delay payments for teachers until 2012. She said it also will continue the government’s deficit spending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In fact, as the California Department of Education explained, the funds will actually be sped to schools:<\/p>\n

Maria Lopez, a spokesman for the department, said the law requires U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to make grants within 45 days of the law’s enactment, so the state expects the money for the coming school year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s Carly Fiorina in a nutshell: refusing to support a federal bill to save jobs because, in her misleading claims, it’s “deficit spending.” Fiorina wants California’s teachers to be laid off and wants our children to suffer because, god forbid, the federal government might spend money.<\/p>\n

In this case, the funding is fully paid for, although in a rather indefensible way. But even if it wasn’t paid for – even if it was funded through deficit spending, it’d be worth doing (and not only because the US government can borrow at record-low rates right now).<\/p>\n

Carly Fiorina should explain to Californians why she believes 16,500 teachers should lose their jobs and why kids should be taught in overcrowded classrooms. I’m sure parents across the state will be quite interested to hear her rationalize that crazy stance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California’s schools are getting ready for the new school year, and are having to make do with vastly reduced resources. Class sizes have soared, even though it’s widely accepted as fact among educators that smaller class sizes are one of the most effective ways to improve student learning. This article from the San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a> shows the struggles that teachers are facing as they try to deliver quality education to students in an era where governments have decided education is no longer important.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the US Senate has decided that mass teacher layoffs aren’t a good way to run a school system or help our children prepare for the future, and passed a bill last week delivering $26 billion in aid to schools, potentially helping save the jobs of 16,500 teachers in California. Unfortunately the Senate chose to cut the food stamps program for it, but that cut doesn’t take effect until 2014, so hopefully that particularly cruel cut can be reversed.<\/p>\n

Barbara Boxer voted for the bill to save these teachers’ jobs. And so Carly Fiorina has come out against saving these jobs<\/a> – by misstating the way the bill works:<\/p>\n

Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina said Friday that a federal bill designed to provide emergency aid to states will not give schools the immediate financial boost they hope will prevent thousands of teachers from being laid off.<\/p>\n

The former Hewlett-Packard CEO said the legislation working its way through Congress is full of accounting tricks that will delay payments for teachers until 2012. She said it also will continue the government’s deficit spending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In fact, as the California Department of Education explained, the funds will actually be sped to schools:<\/p>\n

Maria Lopez, a spokesman for the department, said the law requires U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to make grants within 45 days of the law’s enactment, so the state expects the money for the coming school year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s Carly Fiorina in a nutshell: refusing to support a federal bill to save jobs because, in her misleading claims, it’s “deficit spending.” Fiorina wants California’s teachers to be laid off and wants our children to suffer because, god forbid, the federal government might spend money.<\/p>\n

In this case, the funding is fully paid for, although in a rather indefensible way. But even if it wasn’t paid for – even if it was funded through deficit spending, it’d be worth doing (and not only because the US government can borrow at record-low rates right now).<\/p>\n

Carly Fiorina should explain to Californians why she believes 16,500 teachers should lose their jobs and why kids should be taught in overcrowded classrooms. I’m sure parents across the state will be quite interested to hear her rationalize that crazy stance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3c4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}