Opinion: Christine O’Donnell - Chris Coons debate: Education
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After a fight over whether Coons is a Marxist, the moderators move the discussion along.
A question is made about education and public schools, and accountability in the classroom.
Coons lauds Obama’s ‘Race to the Top’ program for schools, in which there is money for schools willing to make significant changes. He compliments the Delaware teachers union -- which has embraced charters and allows teacher compensation to be tied to student success.
He said his mother and grandmother were teachers, and that he ‘deeply respects’ the work that they do. He was at a school earlier because ‘today is National School Lunch Day.’
Teachers are critical, he said, and they are entitled to a good standard of living, wtih healthcare, a pension and jobs security. But there are issues that need to be tackled, he added.
He didn’t answer the question, O’Donnell pointed out, ‘probably because he got their endoresement.’
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