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Rick Perry presidential campaign, 2016/Education
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 Rick Perry |
Governor of Texas (2000-2015) Lieutenant Governor of Texas (1998-2000) Texas Agriculture Commissioner (1990 - 1998) Texas House of Representatives (1984-1990) |
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- In June 2013, Rick Perry signed legislation in Texas that prevented the state from implementing Common Core education standards.[2]
- In March 2013, Perry called homeschooling "one of the greatest displays of love in our country."[3]
- In his 2013 State of the State address for Texas, Perry advocated for tuition-free public charter schools.[3]
- During a November 2011 presidential primary debate, Perry said he would dismantle the Department of Education. The previous month, Perry had said he would just defund a large portion of the department.[4]
- In 2011, Perry signed into law a bill that permits Texas schools to use corporal punishment on a student unless that student's guardian has signed a statement prohibiting it.[5]
- In his 2008 book, On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For, Perry mourned the disappearance of community-regulated corporal punishment. Perry wrote, "If my dad found out that I was paddled at school, his first question of the principal would be, 'What did the boy do wrong?' It wasn't ever a question about whether someone who didn't share my bloodline had the right to discipline me. It was merely assumed, in a community where parents shared the same interest of raising children to respect authority and live by established values, that other adults exercised their authority in a manner consistent with what was best for the child. If an educator did that today, the threat of a lawsuit wouldn't be far behind. The ability of the community to set guidelines and enforce them is greatly impaired by a litigious climate that has arisen out of distrust among adults who share no sense of community with one another."[6]
- In 2010, Perry said that he believed creationism should be taught in public schools. Perry explained, "I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution."[7]
- In his 2010 book, Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington, Perry professed his support for school choice at the local level, but remarked that it was not the federal government's place to institute education policy, as many "perfectly laudable policy choices at the local level are nor appropriate (much less constitutional) at the federal level." [8]
- In 2005, Perry put forward an education funding plan that was voted down unanimously in the state house.[9][10]
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Footnotes
- ↑ CNN, "Rick Perry launches comeback White House bid," June 4, 2015
- ↑ Texas Legislature Online, "HB 462," accessed June 14, 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Forbes, "Rick Perry On Education: 7 Things The Presidential Candidate Wants You To Know," June 4, 2015
- ↑ Education Week, "Ed. Dept. on Perry's Hit List; GOP Candidates Talk Student Loans," November 9, 2011
- ↑ Legislative Reference Library of Texas, "HB 359, 82nd Regular Session, Actions," accessed June 14, 2015
- ↑ Perry, Rick. (2008).On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For. Macon, GA: Stroud & Hall. (page 35)
- ↑ The Guardian, "Rick Perry's true ID: creationism in the classroom," August 23, 2011
- ↑ Perry, Rick. (2010). Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company. (pages 86-87)
- ↑ Texas Observer, “Can Rick Perry Govern?" August 15, 2011
- ↑ Houston Chronicle, "Legislature takes another stab at school funding," accessed December 18, 2014
