Wednesday, September 26, 2012

NYC Public School Parents: Noah Gotbaum vs. Mitt Romney on who parents trust more, the union or Michael Bloomberg?

NYC Public School Parents: Noah Gotbaum vs. Mitt Romney on who parents trust more, the union or Michael Bloomberg?:


Noah Gotbaum vs. Mitt Romney on who parents trust more, the union or Michael Bloomberg?

See the video below, in which NYC parent leader Noah Gotbaum confronts Mitt Romney at the propaganda fest known as Education Nation about how parents support the teachers union more than the Mayor, a proposition that Mitt says he doesn't believe. Noah is right , of course.

Parents do support the teachers union far more than they support Bloomberg and  the Chancellor as seen in thisQuinnipiac poll from last February. The poll found that overall, NYC voters trust the teachers' union more than the mayor to protect the interest of public school children 56 - 31 percent,; and public school parents trust the union by an even larger margin: 69 - 22 percent.

The same was true in Chicago, with most registered voters supporting the teachers, even during the strike,