LETTER: PWEA picks for Tuesday
Published: November 1, 2009
Bob McDonnell voted against Mark Warner’s historic $1.5 billion investment in public education in 2005. Creigh Deeds voted for the investment and has a 93 percent record in voting for the Virginia
Education Association’s legislative priorities.
The McDonnell/Bolling plan for putting more money into classrooms is a 65 percent gimmick that puts Richmond in charge of deciding how our local schools spend their resources and will likely cause
major cuts to essential staff. This plan does not put more money into public education, it just shuffles around the already limited resources. The McDonnell/Bolling plan supports school voucher programs
that divert taxpayer money from public schools to private schools. Until the Standards of Quality are fully funded and we rise from the abysmal rank of 37th in state funding for public schools, we cannot
lose a penny to private education.
The Virginia Education Association and Prince William Education Association ask for your vote to support our Friends of Public Education. Our recommended candidates are Creigh Deeds for governor, Jody Wagner for lieutenant governor, and Steve Shannon for attorney general.
Our recommended local candidates are John Bell in the 13th, Paul Nichols in the 51st, Luke Torian in the 52nd and Jackson Miller in the 50th district. We hope you will vote for the candidates who truly
understand the need to prioritize education funding and do what is best for schools, education employees, and the children.
BONNIE KLAKOWICZ
President, Prince William Education Association
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Bob actually wants to put more towards public schools unless you of course believe Deeds who said otherwise. Deeds by the way has no plan as he has said on many occasions. I have the thesis so i don’t need a plan.
Xanadu,
Maybe you can answer this. Democrats say education is an extremely important state function. But it is only a small part of the state general fund budget.
So why is it that whenever someone talks about adding transportation funding to the general fund, Democrats always are the first to suggest taking the money out of the education funding, instead of one of the hundreds of other programs funded out of the general fund?
By that logic, wouldn’t adding universal preschool to the general fund take money from existing education programs?
Bob McDonnell wants to shift money from the public schools to roads. Maybe he thinks that paving over all of northern Virginia will solve the transportation problems.
I dont understand how PWEA could support Luke Torian in the 52nd when at the onset of his campaign he was “Dr. Luke Torian” the Dr. stuff ended when no dissertation could be found. Now he’s breaking the law by with holding the 990 tax forms of his church? And taking a note to the editorial board of the N&M was an childish attempt to explain ones bias acts. The PWEA would have sent a more positive message to the community with a better selection in the 52nd District. Pastor Torian has yet to have a single Clergy member publicly support him. But can you blame the clergy? because being a Pastor running for public office sends a conflicting message to the community as a whole.
Well that seals it for me. If the PWEA is FOR a candidate, I am AGAINST him/her. PWEA is part of the huge union interest only interested in themselves, not the children. BTW, the PWEA will be screaming in a couple of months when the budget cuts go down about larger classroom sizes, all the good teachers leaving, yada yada, but it’s interesting that this year our local schools have put money into sod (remember the vandalism) and archeologists (Dumfries elementary parking lot expansion.) When wasn’t this money put into a reserve for next year ... there won’t be any stimulus $$ to bail them out again!! Poor planning and foresight.
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