Reply #58: sorry, yours is the lie. obama publicly supported the decision to fire. [View All]

[Hannah Bell]

"So if a school is struggling, we have to work with the principal and the teachers to find a solution," Obama said. "We've got to give them a chance to make meaningful improvements. But if a school continues to fail its students year after year after year, if it doesn't show any sign of improvement, then there's got to be a sense of accountability."

"And that's what happened in Rhode Island last week at a chronically troubled school, when just 7 percent of 11th graders passed state math tests -- 7 percent."

http://wbztv.com/local/central.falls.high.2.1528415.html

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - President Barack Obama Monday weighed in on the recent firing of all teachers at the long-struggling Central Falls High School.

Obama said during a speech in Washington Monday that there needs to be "accountability" if a school continually fails its students without improvement.

"If a school continues to fail year after year after year and doesn’t show sign of improvements then there has got to be a sense of accountability. That happened in Rhode Island last week," Obama said.

(with video: "when a school board wasn't able to deliver change by other means they voted to lay off faculty & staff")


uh, sorry obama, and his apologists, that's not "what happened".

and ms tetris, you have very specific & uh - dark - reasons for your non-stop pro-charter posts.


if you can make bullshit accusations, don't bitch when others do the same.

obama clearly, undeniably, made public statements in support of the firings in rhode island & spun the facts for the administration's stance.

no matter how many times you deny it.