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...debaters discussed issues from the economy and campaign finance reform to issues that hit closer to home...
...presidential election this November offers voters a choice between real, tangible, meaningful reform and repackaged, failed policies of the last eight years. Real progress in education will take much more than the tired liberal spending that is the hallmark of the policy advocated by Vice President Al Gore '69. Indeed, Gore is so bound to money from the special interest teachers' unions and National Education Association representatives that one leading education commentator this week concluded that while Gore mouths reformist education ideas, there's nothing in his record to indicate that he would stand up to education unions and take...
Though Gore has decided to mimic Republican education reform proposals--asking to expand the number of charter schools and increase standards for teachers and schools--close examination reveals that Texas Gov. George W. Bush offers the only comprehensive reform agenda centered around high standards, specific accountability and properly-aligned local authority. In an effort to appease teachers unions and school administrators (as with so many of his "reforms") Gore's plan simply suggests, not requires, that schools test their students at least twice during the entirety of their school years. In contrast, the Bush education initiative requires that states test...
...Clinton-Gore record. He will push the argument that the Administration has presided over an "education recession," and he will try to pick apart the details of Gore's prescription-drug plan in an attempt to show it is as onerous as Hillary Clinton's failed health-care reform. The Bush people are also girding to defend their turf. "He will misrepresent the Governor's record in Texas and his proposals for the nation," says Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughes. "But we look forward to explaining the truth." By the time they are finished with three debates, the two candidates will...
After the conventions, though, I was a little worried. Our kids may be gung-ho, but the older ones haven't got a clue about campaign-finance reform, and the youngest wouldn't know George W. from George of the Jungle. How could we translate their interest into a true political education? The numbers don't look good: according to the Federal Election Commission, less than one-third of 18-to-24-year-olds voted in the 1996 presidential election. If we want our oldest to go to the polls in '08, we have to get busy...