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Luna Adds 2 Cents On Chicago Strike

Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna, an education adviser to GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, says President Barack Obama's "refusal to speak out against the teachers strike in Chicago represents an abdication of leadership." Luna's statement came in a news release issued by the Romney campaign in Boston late Monday. Obama's adopted home town is Chicago, where he met former Chicago school superintendent and now-U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Obama's former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is now Chicago's mayor and is pitted against teachers in the two-day-old strike. In past years, Luna credited Obama and Duncan for supporting linking student performance to teacher evaluation. That issue is a major point of contention in the strike/Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman. More here. (AP photo from first day of teachers' strike in Chicago)

Question: Wouldn't it be nice if the Superintendent Tom Luna stood up for the students of Idaho by supporting quality education rather than experimentation that drives off teachers?


Read more here: http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2012/09/11/idahopolitics/idaho_schools_chief_luna_calls_obama_stand_students_chicago_stri#storylink=twt#storylink=cpy


D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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