Fade the Butcher
02-01-2006, 08:45 AM
There is no crisis in education. White American students are for the most part on par with their contemporaries in Europe. The schools aren't failing black and hispanic children. The black and hispanic children are failing in school. California is the richest state in America, but its students are vastly inferior to those of Iowa and North Dakota.
Bakersfield (http://www.bakersfield.com/state_wire/story/5872552p-5887532c.html)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, in a nationally televised Spanish-language speech, faulted the White House Tuesday for policies he said pushed more Americans into poverty and failed to address a crisis in education.
"America can do better," the mayor said in response to President Bush's State of the Union address.
"Under this administration, 4 million people have fallen from the working class into the ranks of the poor," the mayor said. "Six million children are on the verge of failing out of school and 11 million Americans can't read a bus schedule or fill out a job application.
"I'm worried that too many hardworking Americans are earning less and losing faith. And I'm concerned that we're not investing enough in our children," he said in the address carried on the Univivision network. Excerpts of his remarks were also released before the speech. . . .
Bakersfield (http://www.bakersfield.com/state_wire/story/5872552p-5887532c.html)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, in a nationally televised Spanish-language speech, faulted the White House Tuesday for policies he said pushed more Americans into poverty and failed to address a crisis in education.
"America can do better," the mayor said in response to President Bush's State of the Union address.
"Under this administration, 4 million people have fallen from the working class into the ranks of the poor," the mayor said. "Six million children are on the verge of failing out of school and 11 million Americans can't read a bus schedule or fill out a job application.
"I'm worried that too many hardworking Americans are earning less and losing faith. And I'm concerned that we're not investing enough in our children," he said in the address carried on the Univivision network. Excerpts of his remarks were also released before the speech. . . .