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Newt may be down, but he ain't out. Never underestimate him:

Governor Brownback Wages War on Teachers

This is the latest outrage from the heartland:

Gov. Sam Brownback has formally introduced his 138-page school finance overhaul, and it includes a provision that Brownback officials had not discussed before publicly: a proposal to evaluate teachers, partly based on student achievement, and post their rankings on the Internet.

That plan received a rough welcome on Thursday from several Republican and Democratic legislators and the Kansas National Education Association.

State Sen. Jean Kurtis Schodorf, R-Wichita, and chairwoman of the Senate Education Committee, described the evaluation proposal as "pretty toxic."

Just like the L.A. Times "rankings." It's all a bunch of shit to shame teachers into quitting.

Since Obama Thinks He is Better

because he went to private schools and colleges all his life, he believes ALL students should go to private schools and universities by waging war on public institutions of learning.

He's a walking disaster:

Obama provided more details on his proposals for higher education, comprised of minor tokens, such as a tuition tax credit, and right-wing pro-business measures. The centerpiece is a plan to tie federal student aid to university tuition rates. “Let me put colleges and universities on notice: If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down” Obama declared.

The thrust of the various proposals is to leverage meager federal assistance to universities and the states into a mechanism for pressing for school “reform” and cuts to programs and pay for faculty. One proposal, a $1 billion grant competition for the states, is called the “Race to the Top for college affordability and completion,” after the K-12 program by the same name that the administration has used to press for charter schools and attacks on teachers.

Watch them try to do away with tenure on the college level.