Monday, November 21, 2011

Newt: Fire the janitors, hire kids to clean schools - Maggie Haberman - POLITICO.com

Newt: Fire the janitors, hire kids to clean schools - Maggie Haberman - POLITICO.com:

Newt: Fire the janitors, hire kids to clean schools

Via POLITICO's Reid Epstein, Newt Gingrich tonight said at an address at Harvard that child work laws "entrap" poor children into poverty - and suggested that a better way to handle failing schools is to fire the janitors, hire the local students and let them get paid for upkeep.

The comment came in response to an undergrad's question about income equality during his talk at Harvard's Kennedy School.

"This is something that no liberal wants to deal with," Gingrich said. "Core policies of protecting unionization and bureaucratization against children in the poorest neighborhoods, crippling them by putting them in schools that fail has done more to create income inequality in the Uni



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