Republicans or Democrats?: No Difference for Educators
For about thirty years now, public education as well as its teachers and students have been the focus of an accountability era driven by recurring calls for and the implementation of so-called higher standards and incessant testing. At two points during this era, educators could blame Ronald Reagan’s administration for feeding the media frenzy around the misleading A Nation at Risk and George W. Bush’s administration for federalizing the accountability era with No Child Left Behind (NCLB)—both Republican administrations.
For those who argued that Republicans and Democrats were different sides of the same political coin beholden to corporate interests, education advocates could point to Republicans with an accusatory finger and claim the GOP was anti-public education while also endorsing Democrats as unwavering supporters of public education. To claim Republicans and Democrats were essentially the same was left to extremists and radicals, it seemed.
As we approach the fall of 2012 and the next presidential election, however, educators and advocates for public education have found that the position of the extremists—Republicans and Democrats are the same—has come true under the Barack Obama administration.
Educators have no political party to support because no political party supports educators, public education, or teachers unions.
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Obama is President and what has he done about it? OBAMA is the one...
and this is hardly unfair bashing, this is deserved criticism.
Only a partial assault. 
Both parties are moving rightward on education. Like in every other area, it's a huge, huge "lesser of two evils" trap to judge Democratic policies in education in comparison to what Republicans would do, because Republicans will *always* offer something crazier and worse. That is how we are pulled to the right, and how the corporatized version of education that Obama is pushing now gets to be seen as even remotely acceptable. We must judge Democratic policies based on what we know is right for our children. Republican-light is damaging to our school systems and harmful to our children.
We're fighting a huge battle against Students First and their donations to Democrats. They have tons of money and an army of lobbyists. And a new movie coming out in a few weeks. Woohoo. 
