Bad losers in Tuesdays election
Glenda Ritz, newly-elected Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction.
No sooner had veteran teacher Glenda Ritz upset Tony Bennett as schools Superintendent of Public Instruction in Indiana’s election by questioning his corporate-based school reform agenda than unhappy Republican state leaders threw down the gauntlet to Ritz and her supporters.
Here’s what Gov.-Elect Mike Pence (R) said, according to the Evansville Courier & Press:
I want to be very clear: I support the policies and progress that we’ve made on education. We will support that in the next four years, and we will seek for ways to build on that to really put kids first and continue to keep Indiana in the forefront of the kind of education reforms that focus on results.”
He said that voters, by keeping Republican legislative majorities in the state, really liked