Comments on: Now The Roosters Are Crowing For Bureacrat Bailout $$$ http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/01/now-the-roosters-are-crowing-for-bureacrat-bailout/ Politics, Sports and Pop Culture Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:13:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: anonymous http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/01/now-the-roosters-are-crowing-for-bureacrat-bailout/#comment-50934 anonymous Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:41:59 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=17784#comment-50934 New York Times Reports This morning: Mark Sanford, who advocates issuing taxpayer-financed vouchers that parents can use to send their children to private schools, has told the Obama administration that he would not accept some $577 million in educational stimulus money for South Carolina unless he could use it to pay down state debt. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: "Mr. Duncan unleashed a barrage of dismal statistics about the South Carolina schools, noting that only 15 percent of the state’s black students are proficient in math and that the state has one of the nation’s worst high school graduation rates". “Those are heartbreaking results; those are children who will never have a chance to compete,” Mr. Duncan said. “For South Carolina to stand on the sidelines and say that the status quo is O.K., that defies logic.” "ONLY (15) FIFTEEN PERCENT OF BLACK STUDENTS ARE PROFICIENT IN MATH" "Mr. Sanford would not quibble with Mr. Duncan’s portrayal of South Carolina schools, Mr. Sawyer(a spokesman for Mr. Sanford) said. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/education/02educ.html?hpw New York Times Reports This morning:
Mark Sanford, who advocates issuing taxpayer-financed vouchers that parents can use to send their children to private schools, has told the Obama administration that he would not accept some $577 million in educational stimulus money for South Carolina unless he could use it to pay down state debt.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan:
“Mr. Duncan unleashed a barrage of dismal statistics about the South Carolina schools, noting that only 15 percent of the state’s black students are proficient in math and that the state has one of the nation’s worst high school graduation rates”.

“Those are heartbreaking results; those are children who will never have a chance to compete,” Mr. Duncan said. “For South Carolina to stand on the sidelines and say that the status quo is O.K., that defies logic.”

“ONLY (15) FIFTEEN PERCENT OF BLACK STUDENTS ARE PROFICIENT IN MATH”

“Mr. Sanford would not quibble with Mr. Duncan’s portrayal of South Carolina schools, Mr. Sawyer(a spokesman for Mr. Sanford) said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/education/02educ.html?hpw

]]> By: Law Student http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/01/now-the-roosters-are-crowing-for-bureacrat-bailout/#comment-50903 Law Student Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:54:54 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=17784#comment-50903 It strikes me that all three of you are missing the issue here. We do not need our state employees (i.e. USC employees) using state dollars to send out politically charged mass emails to our student body telling them to get involved in an ongoing political matter. As an entity of the state, the University should be a-political. If the University feels the necessity to get involved, it should only contact students with a well-written article describing the nature of the dispute without bias, allowing students to form their own opinions and get involved in the debate on the side they feel reflects their views as individuals. It should not send a sketchy two paragraph email essentially telling students what political position to take without full disclosure of the implications of that position and prompting them to attend an anti-Governor rally at the State House. It strikes me that all three of you are missing the issue here. We do not need our state employees (i.e. USC employees) using state dollars to send out politically charged mass emails to our student body telling them to get involved in an ongoing political matter. As an entity of the state, the University should be a-political.

If the University feels the necessity to get involved, it should only contact students with a well-written article describing the nature of the dispute without bias, allowing students to form their own opinions and get involved in the debate on the side they feel reflects their views as individuals.

It should not send a sketchy two paragraph email essentially telling students what political position to take without full disclosure of the implications of that position and prompting them to attend an anti-Governor rally at the State House.

]]> By: Kyle http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/01/now-the-roosters-are-crowing-for-bureacrat-bailout/#comment-50890 Kyle Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:27:22 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=17784#comment-50890 You obviously know nothing about higher eduction and funding practices. South Carolina is at the bottom of all 50 U.S. States in the amount it funds it's higher education system. This is why comparable universities and states have risen in education rankings and stature while our flagship institution has lost ground. What a sad commentary on such an issue vital to all South Carolinians. You obviously know nothing about higher eduction and funding practices. South Carolina is at the bottom of all 50 U.S. States in the amount it funds it’s higher education system. This is why comparable universities and states have risen in education rankings and stature while our flagship institution has lost ground. What a sad commentary on such an issue vital to all South Carolinians.

]]> By: Snead http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/01/now-the-roosters-are-crowing-for-bureacrat-bailout/#comment-50884 Snead Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:21:37 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=17784#comment-50884 So Sanford can spend taxpayer money to fight the stimulus but others can't spend taxpayer money to support it? What South Carolina “desperately” needs is to clean house, starting with the governor, right on down the statehouse roll. So Sanford can spend taxpayer money to fight the stimulus but others can’t spend taxpayer money to support it?

What South Carolina “desperately” needs is to clean house, starting with the governor, right on down the statehouse roll.

]]> By: anonymous http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/01/now-the-roosters-are-crowing-for-bureacrat-bailout/#comment-50879 anonymous Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:17:50 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=17784#comment-50879 Mark Sanford avoiding the topic of illegal immigration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHJohB8htGk Mark Sanford avoiding the topic of illegal immigration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHJohB8htGk

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