At a Raleigh luncheon today, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani called for more charter schools.
He said that the competition would force public schools to end teacher tenure and offer merit-based pay, both of which he said would improve education.
"They would have to do it because they have to survive, because they would be losing students," he said.
He said public schools in many places are a "job protection system."
He also said that charter schools would help the poor.
"I'll be darned if I'm going to concede that Democrats care about poor people more than we do," he said.
Comments
Re: Giuliani on education
April 27, 2007 - 3:48pm — SenateI like where this blog is going. BlueNC is going to have some competition.
Re: Giuliani on education
April 27, 2007 - 1:33pm — Anglico"I'll be darned if I'm going to concede that Democrats care about poor people more than we do," he said.
Just because Rudolph won't concede it, doesn't mean it's not true. How else to explain stagnant or falling income levels for the vast majority of people while the wealth of the upper crust is increasing as never befdore in history.
The truth is, though, Republicans do care about poor people. They have a vested interest in their being lots and lots of poor people do clean their houses and work in their fields and slaughter their hogs and cut their lawns and keep their stock prices movin' on up.
Re: Giuliani on education
April 27, 2007 - 1:28pm — YasminahCharter schools are private schools taking public school funding. They are exclusionary and actually harm public schools. This is not about poor people. What a maroon.