Learn & Earn + School Vouchers= No Children Left Behind (Vote Pat McCrory!)

An innovative education reform program, Learn & Earn, pioneered by the outgoing NC Democratic governor will give motivated high schoolers the gift of a lifetime; the opportunity to earn an associates degree while in high school and if successful, go on to a university for their bachelors at the state’s expense. This is an incredibly great program for kids to maximize their potential and avoid the “lost year” syndrome many seniors experience. It does a fine job of taking care of the 67% of the student population that goes to decent or better schools.

A pity then that the Democratic candidate for governor, Bev Perdue, supports this program but not vouchers for poor students and those who attend failing schools. She cares about the future of the 67% of students fortunate enough to attend schools that function as intended. Her ideological opposition to school vouchers for the 33% of NC students who attend failing schools renders her talk of supporting children and families hollow. Even if she thinks she has these students’ best interests at heart by defending the public school system, she is punishing those students who attend failing schools. Even if she believes she can be the governor to somehow overcome incompetence and indifference at the federal, state and local levels and save those 33% of schools that fail their students day in and day out, she is still then abandoning these students to failing schools for years to come while she fixes the system. That is unacceptable.

Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory , the Republican candidate for governor, supports school vouchers. He would not only ensure the Learn & Earn program offers teens the opportunity to get an invaluable head start on adult education, but would give EVERY NC child the opportunity to attend a school that fulfills it mission and offers a quality education, ensuring that as few children as possible are left behind. The 67% and the 33% are joined together in what over time could become one of the nation’s best school systems. McCrory’s education policies would help lay the grounds for a strong, secure and dynamic NC for decades to come, a better environment for businesses, citizens and communities alike.

 

Bev Perdue wants to continue to abandon the children in poor and failing school districts (disproportionately minorities). She’s running spiteful ads that portray Pat McCrory’s ambition to offer ALL NC children the freedom to a quality education as an attack on the middle class. Bev Perdue is engaging in class warfare and fear mongering. Pat McCrory is daring to stand up for freedom in North Carolina. There is no greater freedom for a child than access to a quality education, one that can open countless doors throughout life. Vote freedom, vote for the future, vote for the children. Vote Pat McCrory!

NC Dem. Gov Candidate Wages War On The Poor

North Carolina’s Democratic Gubernatorial candidate, Bev Perdue, has run a vicious ad that raises paranoia about vouchers for students stuck in failing schools (of which there are many in NC). She manages to combine an anti-poor message with an attack against McCrory (the 7 term mayor of Charlotte) for daring to take action in response to continued local, state and federal failures in public education.

This being NC, where we have the bracing poverty and perpetual underdevelopment of the western mountain counties (mostly white) with the impoverished, backwards delta and coastal counties (substantially black), her attack on the poor’s right to an equal education is not racial. Yet the message to white voters in the suburbs east of Charlotte (which is viewed alternately as a cesspool and a foreign city by many NC residents) is undeniable; McCrory would put poor kids before your kids.

I am a supporter of North Carolina Republican Gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory. Bev Perdue’s despicable fear-mongering about equal education opportunity for the poor is an excellent reason why.