MSNBC news programs: on Education
Joseph Lieberman:
Would advocate vouchers privately, but support Gore publicly
In 1992, Lieberman voted for funding vouchers to allow low-income parents to pull their children out of dysfunctional public schools and pay tuition at private schools. Gore voted against that proposal. Lieberman said on Sunday that if he and
Gore win, he would continue to advocate vouchers "within the privacy of our relationship, but never publicly." He added that he supported vouchers only as a temporary measure, seeing them as "a way out for poor kids trapped in failing schools."
Source: MSNBC.com on 2000 election
Aug 16, 2000
Pat Buchanan:
Schools went wrong when judges & feds got involved
Over the last 30 years, ever since the judges have gotten heavily into education, and the National Education Association has gotten into control of that Department of Education, test scores go down, there's
violence in classroom, things are going wrong. I would get rid of that Goals 2000, school-to-work-this idea of taking kids at a certain age and putting them right in as though we're in "1984," is an outrage. Let folks do it at the local level.
Source: Interview on MSNBC's "Equal Time" on 2000 election
Nov 2, 1999
Pat Buchanan:
Block grants to states with all federal education funds
I would take all that money from the federal government for primary and secondary education-I would take it and I would block-grant it out to the states, and I would tell the governors, listen to the local communities. Send the money back to the local
communities where parents and teachers and principals-they decide how best to improve education. That way you've got however many thousands of school districts competing with one another, and they're not being dictated to by Washington.
Source: Interview on MSNBC's "Equal Time" on 2000 election
Nov 2, 1999
Pat Buchanan:
Federal role in science & scholarships; not grade schools
Q: Would you abolish the federal Department of Education? A: I would abolish those segments that deal with primary and secondary education. There is a federal role in higher education. We need to be first in science. That's where I'd put some money. And
[some funds] for scholarships; that's a federal responsibility. But primary and secondary education, that belongs to mom, and pop, and the teacher, and the principal and the deputy principal.
Source: Interview on MSNBC's "Equal Time" on 2000 election
Nov 2, 1999
Paul Broun:
Big Bang & evolution: "lies straight from the pit of hell"
The candidate causing the biggest headache [in the Republican primary] is Paul Broun, a four-term GOP congressman who opposes abortion without exception, thinks the Big Bang and evolution are "lies
straight from the pit of hell," (gravity waves be damned), and likened President Obama to Hitler and Karl Marx before he was even inaugurated.Broun, nicknamed "Dr. No" for his constant ideological votes against
House leadership, conceded to MSNBC that, "certainly all our Republicans are conservative to one degree or another."
Democrats are hoping Broun will stay competitive enough to push everyone to the right, but his candidacy could also have a
freeing effect: if his rivals assume that Broun has a lock on the most conservative primary voters, they might turn their attention to winning moderate Republicans, many of whom are concentrated in the Atlanta suburbs.
Source: MSNBC on 2014 Georgia Republican primary Senate race
Mar 26, 2014
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