One of my friends on Twitter pointed me at this little gem last night.  This is from the recent Republican Gubernatorial debate on WCSH 6.  During the debate, moderator Pat Callaghan gave the candidates an opportunity to weigh in on the effectiveness of “local control” in public education.  During a somewhat rambling missive, LePage slipped in a rather innovative solution to Maine’s education woes:

Watch Paul LePage on education during the WCSH6 GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Debate

Unless I’m mistaken, LePage is advocating importing students from Asia to bring up Maine’s public school test scores?

I’ve grown used to the GOP’s usual platitudes on charter schools and home schooling, and their frequent rebukes of Maine’s teachers unions.  But it sounds like this darling of the Tea Party wing of the Maine GOP has some truly unique ideas.

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 at 12:40 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.