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John McCain: Town Hall Meeting 07/09/08

2008-07-18T16:52:30Z

John McCain
Town Hall Meeting
Portsmouth, OH 07/09/08

TRANSCRIPT:
QUESTIONER: "I've been a teacher for about 31 years. What is your feeling about No Child Left Behind?"

JOHN MCCAIN: "Thank you. By the way, did I mention that Cindy was a teacher of special education before I took her out of that honest line of work?

MCCAIN: "[...] I think No Child Left Behind needs to be fixed. However, I think it was a right beginning. I think we need to be able to judge [...] students' performance all over America. [...] But now [...] we need to go back and sit down together again Republican and Democrat and fix what needs to be fixed.

MCCAIN: "And [...] some of what needs to be fixed is more full funding for some of the programs that were never adequately funded, as you know. Including special education. Including this terrible problem that you're very aware of in this rise in autism amongst children in America. It's a terrible thing that's happening. And it's going to require additional educational capabilities.

MCCAIN: "So I want to fix it but I also have to give you a little more straight talk. I'm for choice and competition. Now Cindy and I had the money to send—the ability to send our kids to Catholic school. I want every American to be able to send their child to the school of their choice.

MCCAIN: "[...] Charter schools work. Charter schools are good competition. Some of them don't work. Some of them don't work, so they should fail. But if you look at New York City today and if you look at New Orleans [...] New York City's education has improved rather dramatically. And also, New Orleans because they had to start from Square One because of the tragedy of Katrina; they know have 30 charter schools there. And the quality of education is improving.

MCCAIN: "Learn the lessons of No Child Left Behind. Fix the problem. Reward good teachers. Find bad teachers another line of work. Fix education, which is the future of America."

LABEL: JM OH 7-9 (SD#25) GHBST-ClipE

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John McCain: Press Conference 12/11/07

2008-07-02T18:45:23Z

John McCain
Press Conference
Greenville, SC 12/11/07

TRANSCRIPT:
JOHN MCCAIN: "I would emphasize completely choice and competition in education. Choice and competition. Choice and competition . . . I'm for vouchers, I'm for chartered schools, I'm for rewarding good teachers and finding bad teachers another line of work, I think that, in my home state of Arizona, my friends, we have had a dramatic increase in chartered schools, some have failed, some have failed, but it provided competition for the public schools, and the public schools have gotten better. If you want to home school your child I'm for it. If you want to have a voucher and take your child to a school of your choice I'm for that too. And by the way, on the issue of No Child Left Behind, it's full of faults and it needs to be fixed. But to scrap it - we go back to where we were before. And I don't think where we were before No Child Left Behind is where we want to be . . ."

LABEL: JM SC 12-11 (JR#12) F - ClipB

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John McCain: Town Hall Meeting 02/15/08

2008-07-01T09:58:52Z

John McCain
Town Hall
Osh Kosh, WI 02/15/08

TRANSCRIPT:
JOHN MCCAIN: "The essence of education, in my view, has to do with just two words: competition and quality. Competition and quality. And choice.

"Three. Choice."

"I want every American family to have the same opportunity that Cindy and I did."

LABEL: JM WI 2-15 (JR#51) F-ClipI

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Re: Got a Question for Ralph Nader?

2008-09-07T22:41:47Z

Mr. Nader,

Will you honor your oath to the US Constitution to uphold the rule of law with regard to the use of US Armed Forces, unlike McCain, Obama and Hilary? Will you pledge that you will not be singing about bombing other countries like McCain or that you will not keep illegal options on the table like Obama & Hillary? Will you will absolutely rule out the use force unless it is legal according to our Constitution and the Constitutional responsibility to abide by the international treaties the US has signed which prohibit wars of aggression? McCain, Obama and Hillary are unwilling to abide by the UN Charter which the Unites States has signed. Will you declare that all threats of force are off the table and that you will instead abide by UN Charter and the law of the land as spelled out in our Constitution?

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Headzup: The McCain Plane

2008-06-27T08:39:26Z

John McCain is asked about using his wife's corporate jet for very little money.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/us/politics/27plane.html?pagewanted=print

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Emily Drinker performs with Quaker's Dozen

2008-09-07T22:21:29Z

My sister Emily and eleven other Penn Charter students put on a stellar set at this year's A Capella Fest, held at Germantown Friends School. Emmie Liz is the tall redhead who pretty much looks like me and who the camera just seems to adore. The one who had a 102 degree fever the night of the performance but refused to sit out. In fact, it seems, many of this twelve seem to be afflicted with something.

Penn Charter... you owe me one.

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Emily Drinker sings "Be My Baby"

2008-09-07T22:21:29Z

From Penn Charter High School's performance of the broadway musical "Leader of the Pack".

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Leader of the Pack

2008-09-07T22:21:29Z

Emily Drinker performs the title song in Penn Charter High School's production of "Leader of the Pack".

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"I Can Hear Music"

2008-09-07T22:21:29Z

Emily Drinker sings with the cast of "Leader of the Pack" at Penn Charter High School's spring musical.

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My Old Man by Joni Mitchell

2008-09-07T22:21:28Z

Emily Drinker sings with her friend Jenny Singer on the piano. This performance took place for Showcase at Penn Charter.

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How Cincinnati's Anti-Gay Charter Was Overturned (Part 1)

2008-09-07T22:32:44Z

Part 2: www.youtube.com

"A Blinding Flash of the Obvious" is a short film about the successful 2004 campaign to overturn Cincinnati's anti-gay city charter provision which had been added a decade earlier. The film includes interviews with local officials and activists as well as national civil rights leaders. Find out more at www.pfaw.org

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How Cincinnati's Anti-Gay Charter Was Overturned (Part 3)

2008-09-07T22:32:44Z

Part 1: www.youtube.com
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How Cincinnati's Anti-Gay Charter Was Overturned (Part 2)

2008-09-07T22:32:44Z

Part 3: www.youtube.com

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JOURNEY SCHOOL-Where Education is a Journey and Not a Race!

2008-06-10T09:34:58Z

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