Monday, April 15, 2013

California Democrats and Education Reform

From this weekend's California Democratic convention.
If your agenda is to shut teachers and school employees out of the political process and not lift a finger to prevent cuts in education, in my book you're not a reformer, you're not helping education, and you're sure not much of a Democrat.

Who said this? Was it a representative of the teacher's unions? A far left progressive activist? Nope. It was State Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said this about Democratic school reform groups that are backed by President Obama and Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The reporter reports this without noting how extreme this is. Barack Obama just drew over 60% of the vote in California and is the Democratic President. The top education official in California isn't saying that Obama has his opinion and there's room for disagreement in the Democratic party. Nope. "you're sure not much of a Democrat."

And Republicans are the extremists?

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