Bobby Jindal in CPAC 2016-2019

On Education: If it's not about student achievement, what's it about?

Everybody says they're for great teachers, but to be honest look at how we hire, fire, pay and promote our teachers today. So in Louisiana we decided to do something about that. We said "wouldn't it be special, wouldn't it be great if we actually hired, fired and promoted and compensated our teachers based on how well students are doing rather than simply how long teachers have been breathing in the classroom?"

We've radically changed our tenure laws, our hiring laws, our firing laws, our compensation laws to link teacher advancement to student achievement. Unions didn't like that. They said we don't have any problem with you evaluating teachers; we just don't want it to be tied so closely to student achievement. It's like going to a football game and saying: don't worry about the score at the end of the game. If it's not about student achievement, what's it about?

Source: Forbes Magazine on 2014 CPAC convention Jun 24, 2015

On Education: Fight to give parents choices in schools

Who could be against giving choices to parents? Eric Holder and President Obama, that's who could be against giving parents choices. The Department of Justice has taken us to federal court to try to impede this program. We've got [Attorney General] Eric Holder trying to stand in the schoolhouse door to prevent minority kids, low-income kids, kids who haven't had access to a great education the chance to go better schools. Over 90% of these kids are minority children. Over 100% of these kids are in low-income families who would otherwise go to C, D, or F schools.

I think it is cynical, immoral, and hypocritical for the attorney general and the president to deny these children the same choices and chances they would want for their own children.

It's especially cynical to try to use those same rules designed to protect these children to trap them in failing schools. But I've got a message for Eric Holder: We're going to fight them every step of the way to defend these children's rights.

Source: Speech at 2014 CPAC convention Mar 7, 2014

The above quotations are from Speeches at Conservative Political Action Conferences (2016-2019). Click here for other excerpts from Speeches at Conservative Political Action Conferences (2016-2019). Click here for other excerpts by Bobby Jindal. Click here for a profile of Bobby Jindal.
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