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George Pataki presidential campaign, 2016/Education
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 George Pataki |
Governor of New York (1995 - 2007) |
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- George Pataki spoke exclusively about his education policies during an interview on Girard at Large in April 2015. Pataki said, "Education has always been a state and local issue. It's not a Washington issue, and the idea that we're going to have one national testing system imposed on students in every community across America is wrong. I opposed Common Core. I think it's a terrible idea. I'm for standards, but those standards should be imposed locally and at the state level."[2]
- Pataki stated the Department of Education should serve more as "an information-gathering center" rather than determine the direction of policy.[2]
- While serving as governor of New York, Pataki tried to establish "an education tax credit where we could take a core part of our taxes and use it to help students to learn better, whether it was with additional support in the public system or paying for education outside in the private or parochial system."[2]
- Early in his tenure as governor in the 1990s, Pataki supported the establishment of charter schools in New York.[2][3] When Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio reduced funding for charter schools in 2014, Pataki said, "This is about empowering the educational monopoly and the bureaucracy at the expense of the children. They see charter schools as a threat to their monopolistic power."[3]
- Pataki received an endorsement from the United Federation of Teachers in his 2002 re-election campaign for governor of New York.[4]
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- ↑ The Boston Globe, "George Pataki to end presidential campaign," December 29, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Girard at at Large, "Governor Pataki Champions States Rights," April 16, 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The New York Post, "Pataki accuses De Blasio of denying schoolkids choices," March 10, 2014
- ↑ The New York Times, "As Expected, New York City Teachers Union Endorses Pataki," October 10, 2002
