Opinion: He's Just Not That Into You Obama is trying have an informal meeting with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani. Rouhani refused, just like Iranian president Mohammed Khatami refused to meet with president Bill Clinton. Khatami reasoned that he couldn't because of inner Iranian politics restricting it. Rouhani too, is saying that he cannot meet with Obama due to internal Iranian politics. Obama gave a speech about how they are not aiming to change the regime, and respect Iranian rights to access nuclear energy. Rouhani gave a speech about the complexity of Iranian politics, a rather blunt topic, shortly after Obama's speech. Politics don't exactly exist in Iran, the rules are all set, so the leaders chosen are accountable to nobody, but Iranian leaders do know how to humiliate other leaders to make them feel weak. President Obama shoudl be happy about the way he has been taught about politics.
Failure in Philadelphia The students in Philadelphia's school's are suffering from a system failure. The students have gotten slightly better test scores, but they are still quite low. Last year about 40% of the students were proficient in reading although there was 99.5% teacher satisfaction. Because of the low level of proficient students in public schools, the charter school enrollment has gone up to 56,000 from 12,000 i the year 2000. Now, there are 25% less students attending public schools. While the students are taught with better teaching methods, the teacher is paid three quarters as much on a per student basis than a public school teacher. The average salary for an average charter school teacher is about $110,000 every year. These teachers also get health benefits and a retirement pension equivalent to 80% off of their final salary. Their health and welfare fund is also over $71 million while public schools had to borrow $300 million. Two dozen schools were closed and 3,000 employees were laid off(this included 600 teachers) because they couldn't pay them. Where is Obama when the education system needs help?
Failure in Philadelphia The students in Philadelphia's school's are suffering from a system failure. The students have gotten slightly better test scores, but they are still quite low. Last year about 40% of the students were proficient in reading although there was 99.5% teacher satisfaction. Because of the low level of proficient students in public schools, the charter school enrollment has gone up to 56,000 from 12,000 i the year 2000. Now, there are 25% less students attending public schools. While the students are taught with better teaching methods, the teacher is paid three quarters as much on a per student basis than a public school teacher. The average salary for an average charter school teacher is about $110,000 every year. These teachers also get health benefits and a retirement pension equivalent to 80% off of their final salary. Their health and welfare fund is also over $71 million while public schools had to borrow $300 million. Two dozen schools were closed and 3,000 employees were laid off(this included 600 teachers) because they couldn't pay them. Where is Obama when the education system needs help?
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