Vernon Parker launches video campaign.
Paradise Valley mayor, Republican, and expected Arizona gubernatorial candidate Vernon Parker has released a series of videos addressing state issues. The straight-forward videos are available both on YouTube and his exploratory campaign Web site. Here's Vernon taking on education:
It's very early in the state's election cycle, but it's great to see a Republican embrace new media from the outset rather than as an afterthought. Florida senate candidate Marco Rubio and NY-23's Doug Hoffman have proven how powerful Web efforts can be in stirring up the grassroots.
It's very early in the state's election cycle, but it's great to see a Republican embrace new media from the outset rather than as an afterthought. Florida senate candidate Marco Rubio and NY-23's Doug Hoffman have proven how powerful Web efforts can be in stirring up the grassroots.
Don't get me wrong....a Republican's solution to a problem will generally be a better solution than a Democrat's.
But, Parker is a bit mixed up here.
Teach for America is a good program, and it does what he says--takes bright college graduates and puts them into under-performing schools sans a teaching certificate. It is good for those college graduates; it is good for the kids in those districts; and it is good for the .edu industry to see that it is possible to educate without the certificates that they so highly prize.
That said, TFA is about the money. The payoff for that bright college graduate to take on teaching in some sh*thole school filled with thugs and gangstas is that the .gov will pay for their masters degree after their 2-year TFA obligation ends. Lets not pretend that this is all about the altruism of the bright kids helping out the poor. Those bright kids are in the program for the payoff.
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