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City, public schools are certainly not palted. here is what i say. i'll leave the question whether to give rid of the department of ed to people with bigger sledgehammers than me. it becomes a political issue. what i do is hopefully the opposite of politics. what i know, however, is the idea of having the federal government setting education policies way down the line seems to not be a good idea. as you talk about here. when we look at test scores and r.o.i.s, you think like a business person look at r. oi r.o.i. and we are spending more money and getting less output. if you ask a lot of educa...

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You mean mitt romney has a worldly view of education and not american? in other words, forget the real life experiences of teachers in the classroom, mitt romney will liston what a think tank tells him. he doesn't have to do anything and he doesn't know anything about overcrowding or underfunding when it comes to schools and what it will do to them. romney doesn't seem to care, just like he didn't care when he was the governor of massachusetts. in his first year, romney cut education funding to close a $1.2 billion budget gap. the cuts caused local taxes to go up. they also caused layoffs of m...

He's the current secretary of education. i hope that's not heresy in the room, but he is has a program called race to the top which is more testing of kids, more evaluation of teachers. those are things that make some sense. >> this week, romney touted his free market vision of educational reform at an inner city at a predominantly black charter school in west philadelphia. romney sat down for questions and tried to defend his previous claim that class size doesn't improve student performance. >> i said let's compare the average classroom size with the performance of our students. we test our ...