Clinton criticizes funds for tutor firms

[ProudToBeLiberal]

Source: Associated Press

CONCORD, N.H. - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday criticized the Bush administration for outsourcing teaching to private tutoring companies, arguing that many firms have close ties to Republicans.

"This is Halliburton all over again," the New York senator said.

The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act requires school districts to provide free tutoring in math and reading to poor children in schools that repeatedly fail to meet state testing standards. Clinton said that amounts to $500 million a year being paid to tutoring companies and other supplemental service providers that aren't held accountable.

"Nobody's looking over their shoulder. And we're not really seeing results," she members of the National Education Association's New Hampshire chapter.



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[donco6]

1. Here's how it's working:

NCLB prohibits schools and districts from developing their own tutoring programs. They must be "outsourced." Companies such as Sylvan or Math Monkey or Mathnasium are then contracted to provide the tutoring. These companies then go and hire district teachers to provide the tutoring. They skim off any profit and pay the teachers beans. Yay Capitalism!

[rodeodance]

3. for some schools WH has made exceptions but schools have

to go thru lots of red tape (also calms down complaints).

[Miss Chybil]

2. People will remember this administration as the rapists of our entire

public structure.

[hellbound-liberal]

4. One of our local private tutoring firms is paying their teachers $9 per hour

Guess what kind of teachers show up for these jobs?

[aquart]

6. They may pay $9 but I bet they charge $50.

[rodeodance]

5. this reminds of the Drug law--where Repugs wrote in that Gov

can not negotiate for lower prices.

[DanWithAngel]

7. these teaching firms

should have as much scrutiny as public teaching. if that means looking over shoulders then
make sure ALL teaching is monitored.

NCLB sucks BTW.