Voted "NO" on $52 million for after-school programs through the 21st Century Community Learning Centers, which provides tutorial services and enrichment activities that meet state and local standards in reading and math.Voted "NO" on shifting $5 billion for grants to local educational agencies.
Voted "NO" on shifting $11 billion to fund vocational education, adult education, Pell Grants, and up to $23,000 in loan forgiveness for future math and science teachers from tax loopholes enjoyed by corporations that register off-shore in order to evade taxes, or who export US jobs overseas.
George Allen is rated 27% by the National Education Association.
In contrast, George Allen has earned a 100% rating from The National Sand and Gravel Association, whose spokesperson, Pamela Whitted, lamented to Congress in 2004 that "many of our K-12 schools place more emphasis on an educational track more suitable for attending a university..." therefore robbing industry of uneducated people who are satisfied with low-paying, menial jobs. But on the other hand, Ms. Whitted told Congress that educating more mining engineers would facilitate salary reduction if there were an influx of engineers trained in that field.
So, there you have it. George Allen supports an organization that wants an uneducated workforce, eager for whatever wage they can get, and an educated workforce that will drive salaries lower.
George Allen facilitated the means to identify those children who would gratefully work those menial jobs, but he abandoned any solution for helping them make a better life.
Good job.
I'll do more on this later -- I have a reference someplace about how his term as governor was marked by trying to advance an anti-public school agenda.
I went to Henke's site (shudder), http://www.allenhq.c... where he refers to the "uber-liberal Education Union" backing Jim Webb.
Nice, subtle Germanic reference there, Jon. Are you implying something else?
Hope it helps you.