Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Former Speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich
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Gingrich Position on Education
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• Gingrich believes that high schools are now obsolete. He would make schools and teachers compete to improve education.
• He thinks that we should focus on patriotic education instead of multiculturalism.
• He thinks education is the most important factor in our future prosperity and national security.
• He insists that failing schools must change and he supports charter schools. Gingrich would provide students at hopeless schools with private school scholarships.
• He wouldn't charge interest on student loans for science and math students.
• He would bring back school prayer with a Constitutional amendment and thinks that federal aid should go only to schools that allow voluntary
• Gingrich has said that high school girls who graduate as virgins should be rewarded.
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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Political Consultant & Gay Rights Activist
Fred Karger
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Karger Position on Education
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Karger laments the fact that despite being the pioneer in public education system, America’s school children now ranks outside the top twenty in Mathematics and Science among their peers in developed nations. The current system requires a drastic overhaul to halt our slide. Participation from the community, the private sector and individuals are needed to tackle the issue. Controversially, Karger cites the national teaching unions as one of the biggest culprit in the failings of our education system.
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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Career Flight Attendant
Tom Miller
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Miller Position on Education
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• Miller believes that since the Department of Education has taken the U.S.A. from a #1 world education ranking to the 24th place over the last 35 years that the responsibilty of educating our children should be placed back into the States control.
• He will reduce the Department of Education to a limited position of establishing National standards only.
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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
U.S. Representative from the State of Texas
Ron Paul
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Paul Position on Education
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• Ron Paul thinks that shutting down the Department of Education will improve the quality of education. He wouldn't dismantle public schools but would encourage homeschooling and private schools with tax write-offs.
• He believes that black and hispanic colleges should not get special funding.
• Paul voted yes on vouchers for private and parochial schools.
• He would support a Constitutional amendment that allows voluntary school prayer.
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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Former Governor of Massachusetts
Mitt Romney
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Romney Position on Education
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• Mitt Romney points out the underperformance of kids in the US saying that they score only in the bottom 10%- 25%. Therefore there is a need to revamp the education system.
• Education should not be confined to a teacher's union only. There should be involvement from parents, the state, federal government with the support of the teachers.
• Romney advocated better pay for good quality teachers to improve quality of teaching.
• He perpetrates English immersion in schools stressing that English should be learnt at a very young age.
• While Governor Romney brought forth a scholarship for all kids that graduate in the top quarter of the class known as the John and Abigail Adams scholarship, which was 4 years tuition free entry to state colleges and universities.
• He supports the concept of 'No Child left behind'.
• Romney supports setting up of charter educational institutions and conducting immediate third party audit in underperforming schools, giving authorization to principals to replace 10% of underperforming staff etc.
• Romney supported the elimination of Federal Department of education and favored keeping educational reforms t the lowest level involving parents, teachers and community.
• He was against schools inflicting specific religious practices or prayer in schools. Instead Romney stressed on teaching the importance of economics and family values.
• Romney pledged to vote for a means tested school voucher program which gave the students coice toi attend any public or private school of their choice.
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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Former US Senator from Pennsylvania
Rick Santorum
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Santorum Position on Education
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Despite the 2004 controversy surrounding his children and the Penn Hills School District, Santorum is perhaps better known in the education sector for his effort at including the ‘Santorum Amendment’ into the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. It was an attempt at including the theory of intelligent design, alongside the theory of evolution, into the public school science syllabus. The attempt proved to be unsuccessful, but it has been largely credited as the catalyst for the decade long battle between the Creationist and the scientific community.
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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Matt Snyder
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Snyder Position on Education
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As a teacher, Snyder has first-hand knowledge of our nation’s educational shortcomings. America has the most technologically advanced education in the world, and tools for the most outdated curriculum in western society. It is embarrassing that we are still teaching our children to think along career paths suited for the 1950’s during the 21st century. Our country is the largest financial system in the world, based on capitalism within a free market society, yet we do not teach our children even the basics of finance, let alone the fundamentals of how to prosper within our own country.
To win the war on poverty, we must teach modern avenues of prosperity.
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Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Businessman
Vern Wuensche
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Wuensche Position on Education
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• Vern Wuensche believes that the Department of Education should be abolished.
• Wuensche believes that parents should be able to choose their child’s school.
• Wuensche believes that recognized experts should be allowed to teach without an education degree.
• He believes that teachers should be allowed to teach intelligent design.
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