Last week on the campaign trail, Mitt Romney introduced a plan to cut back on teachers, firefighters, and police officers and mocked President Obama for trying to put public workers back on the job. Now, teachers, firefighters, and police officers are speaking out and standing up to Romney. So are those who have benefited from […]
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Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts Plan to Cut Jobs for Firefighters, Teachers, and Cops
June 12, 2012 
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While President Obama has a plan to create 1 million jobs, Mitt Romney is proposing cutbacks of jobs for police officers, firefighters, and teachers—the same plan he enforced in Massachusetts. Watch Bay State officials who served during Gov. Romney’s tenure explain how Romney’s cutbacks didn’t work for communities then, and how they won’t work now.
Read moreMessages for Mitt Romney: “Education is not one-size-fits-all”
May 26, 2012 Comments Off
Mitt Romney says smaller class sizes aren’t the answer when it comes to improving our schools—here’s what a few teachers and students had to say in response: “I teach 7th grade language arts. When you put 36 kids in my room for only 50 minutes a day, that is less than 1.5 minutes a day to […]
Read moreThe American Jobs Act Invests in Our Students
November 23, 2011 0 Comments
Jay Chung, a Philadelphia music teacher, says that we need the American Jobs Act because it invests in our schools and our student’s futures. Chung is responsible for music classes at seven different schools in the Philadelphia school district. He travels from school to school, teaching percussion classes using plastic buckets from Home Depot, which […]
Read morePresident Obama: We Can’t Wait to Reform Head Start
November 9, 2011 0 Comments
President Barack Obama announced new standards Tuesday to strengthen the Head Start program. Speaking to students and teachers at the Yeadon Regional Head Start Center in Pennsylvania, the President explained how the changes will benefit students by bringing more accountability to the program: “Under the old rules governing Head Start, there just wasn’t enough accountability. […]
Read moreWe Can’t Wait: Student Loan Reform
October 27, 2011 0 Comments
President Obama just took two serious steps to make life a lot easier for folks with student loans—and there’s a good chance you or someone you know will benefit from these changes very soon. Here’s how: —Effective this January, if you’re someone who has different kinds of loans—guaranteed and direct—you’ll be able to roll them […]
Read moreMaking College More Affordable
October 27, 2011 0 Comments
From investing in Pell Grants to supporting the American Opportunity Tax Credit, President Obama and his administration have worked to make college more affordable for more students and their families. Now, the President is taking the next step by making it easier for students to repay federal student loans. Here are just a few of […]
Read moreNew Mexico State Land Office Earns Almost $10 Million for Oil and Gas Lease Sale
September 22, 2011 0 Comments
State Land Commissioner Ray Powell has announced that the New Mexico State Land Office earned almost $10 million for beneficiaries during its monthly oil and gas lease sale held on September 20 in Santa Fe. Thirty tracts were offered for lease and all 30 sold for a total of $9,990,591. “Our extremely knowledgeable and professional […]
Read moreSenator Bingaman Introduces Package of Education Reform Legislation
June 13, 2011 0 Comments
U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman has introduced a package of bills aimed at reforming America’s public schools by both raising academic standards and helping students achieve them. Bingaman is a senior member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and one of the main authors of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. […]
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Helen Davis: Stop the So-Called ‘Retention’ Bill
Helen Davis is a longtime member of our community and a Doña Ana County Democratic Party member, leader, and neighborhood organizer from Las Cruces. At a time when the New Mexico State Legislature is in special session to address the thorny question of redistricting for the next decade, Governor Susana Martinez has decided to load […]
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