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TITLE Children

MEDIA TV30:0

DATE 8/22/12

AD BACK=UP

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Im!Barack!Obama!and!I!approve!this

message.

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VO:

Some!of!our!childrens!greatest!experiences

have!been!in!the!smaller!classrooms

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Visual:

Kevin!&!Caroline

VO:

But!MiC!Romney!says!class!sizes!dont

maCer

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Visual:

Washington!Times!5/24/12

Romney!downplays!value!of!small!class!sizes

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MITT ROMNEY SAYS CLASS SIZES ARENT

RELEVANT TO CHILDRENS LEARNING

Washington Times Headline: Romney Downplays

Value Of Small Class Size [Washington Times,

5/24/12]

Romney: The Effort To Reduce Classroom Size

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May Actually Hurt Education More Than It Helps.

Romney wrote, In The United States, then, the effort

to reduce classroom size may actually hurt education

more than it helps. [Romney, No Apology, Pg. 216]

Romney Was Asked About His View On Class

Sizes, And Referenced A McKinsey Study, Saying

Its Not The Classroom Size Thats Driving The

Success Of Those School Systems Around The

World. Questioner: What is your view on that?

Romney: On class size? Well, clearly outside a band

if you had a class of 5, that would be terrific, if you

had a class of 50, thats impossible. So, there are

points where I think those that have looked at

schools in this country, and schools around the world

McKinsey, for instance, the consulting firm

McKinsey Institute, which is a think-tank type

organization, went around the world and looked at

schools in Singapore, and Finland, and South Korea,

and the United States. And, looked at differences at

said, gosh, at schools that are the highest

performing in the world, their classroom sizes are

about the same as in the United States. So, its not

the classroom size thats driving the success of thoseschool systems. [Education Roundtable,

Philadelphia, PA, 5/24/12]

G Romney Cited A McKinsey Study Showing

Classroom Size Wasn't Related To The

Quality Of Education. Romney: There have

been great institutions like the McKinsey

Institute. You may have heard of McKinsey, is agreat consulting firm. They have an institute that

goes around the world, does studies. They

looked at education in some of the most effective

places in the world; Finland, South Korea,

Singapore, Chicago, actually Boston, other

places. And what did they find? They found that


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classroom size was irrelevant to the quality of

education, which was not apparent, not what

people anticipated. But classroom size wasn't

related to the quality of education. [Romney,

Univ. Of Chicago Q&A, 3/19/12]

Romney: Classroom Size Was Not Relevant In

My State To How Well The Kids Were Doing. I

happen, by the way when I came into office people

told me that the key to getting schools better was

shrink the size of the classroom fewer students per

teacher and that makes sense, except as I look at

the data, thats not what it showed. It showed that

classroom size was not relevant in my state to how

well the kids were doing it also showed that how

much you spent per student didnt determine how

good the school was. There was a study done by a

great consulting firm, all over the world the best

schools systems and they concluded the same thing

and they came down to one key determining factor

for how well a school was doing the quality of the

teacher. [Romney Town Hall, Villages FL, 10/4/11]

VO:

And!he!supports!Paul!Ryans!budget!which

could!cut!educaKon!by!20!percent

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Visual:

Cut!educaDon!funding!by!20%

Center!on!Budget!and!Policy!PrioriDes,!5/21/12

Reuters,!8/18/12

THE ROMNEY-RYAN BUDGET COULD CUT

EDUCATION SPENDING BY 20 PERCENT

Non-Defense Discretionary Programs Include

Elementary And Secondary Education. The cutsin non-defense discretionary programs a spending

category that covers a wide variety of public services

such as elementary and secondary education, law

enforcement, veterans health care, environmental

protection, and biomedical research would come

on top of the deep cuts in this part of the budget that


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are already in law due to the discretionary funding

caps established in last years Budget Control Act

(BCA). [Center on Budget Policy and Priorities,

5/21/12]

The Ryan Plan Would Cut Non-Defense

Discretionary Spending By About 20 Percent.

The plan crafted by Ryan, chairman of the House

budget committee, calls for reductions of about 20

percent in non-defense discretionary spending.

[Reuters, 8/16/12]

G If Ryan Budget Cuts Were Distributed EvenlyAcross The Board, 38,000 Teachers And

27,000 Special Education Teachers Could

Lose Their Jobs. If these cuts were distributed

evenly across budget areas, the White House

report said, it would mean reductions in federal

grants that would eliminate funding for 38,000

teachers and aides and a further 27,000 special-

education teachers. [Reuters, 8/16/12]

Ryans Budget Would Cut The Department Of

Education By More Than $115 Billion Over A

Decade. Yesterday, House Republicans released

their budget resolution for FY 2013 On top of the

roughly $1 trillion in cuts in the Budget Control Act, it

would be difficult to overstate the radicalism of the

domestic cuts proposed by the House budget

resolution. In 2013, it would cut annual non-defense

funding by 5 percent. By 2014, the resolution would

cut this funding by 19 percent in purely nominal

terms The Department of Education would be cut

by more than $115 billion over a decade. [Jeff

Zients, Acting Director of the Office of Management

and Budget, WH.gov, 3/21/12]


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ROMNEY SUPPORTS THE RYAN BUDGET

Romney: I'm Very Supportive Of The Ryan

Budget Plan I Applaud It. It's An Excellent

Piece Of Work And Very Much Needed. Romney:

I'm very supportive of the Ryan budget plan. It's a

bold and exciting effort on his part and on the part of

the Republicans and it's very much consistent with

what I put out earlier. I think it's amazing that we

have a president who three and a half years in still

hasn't put a proposal out that deals with entitlements.

This president's dealing with entitlement reform --excuse me -- this budget deals with entitlement

reform, tax policy, which as you know is very similar

to the one that I put out and efforts to reign in

excessive spending. I applaud it. It's an excellent

piece of work and very much needed. [Politico,

3/20/12]

Politico Headline: Romney Endorses RyanBudget. [Politico, 3/20/12]

Romney Advisor Ed Gillespie: Romney Has

Made Clear If The Ryan Budget Had Come To

His Desk As President, He Would Have Signed It,

Of Course. CROWLEY: You can't have a guy on

your ticket without embracing the fullness of his

plan? GILLESPIE: Well, look, as Governor Romneyhas made clear, if the Romney -- I'm sorry, if the

Ryan budget had come to his desk as president, he

would have signed it, of course. And one of the

reasons that he chose Paul Ryan was for

Congressman Ryan's willingness to put forward

innovative solutions in a budget. [State of the Union,


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CNN, 8/12/12]

Associated Presss Kasie Hunt Tweet: Romney,

3/28:I Think Itd Be Marvelous If The Senate Were

To Pick Up Paul Ryans Budget And To Adopt ItAnd Pass It Along To The President [@kasie,

Twitter, 4/3/12]

Holly Bailey: Romney Says He Thinks It Would

Be Marvelous If The Senate Approve Paul

Ryan's Budget But Doesn't Think It's Likely.

[Holly Bailey - @hollybdc, 3/28/12]

VO:

You!cant!do!this!by!shoving!30,!35!people!into

a!class!and!just!teaching!to!some!test

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VO:

These!are!all!issues!that!really!he!personally

cannot!relate!to.!To!be!able!to!afford!an

educaKon,!to!want!the!very!best!public

educaKon!system!for!your!children.

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