Education Association endorses Miller in 1st Senate District

The Virginia Education Association will endorse Democrat John Miller for the 1st Senate District seat tonight during an event in Newport News.

This ought to surprise everyone who hasn't been paying attention at all.

Miller's mother is still a teaching assistant in suburban Chicago. He works at Christopher Newport University and has been collecting school supplies at campaign events.

Republican Tricia Stall, on the other hand, has been taking heat since the spring from education advocates and even members of her own party because of her signature on a online petition. The group she signed on with favors halting state funding for the public school system -- a view that Stall denied on the campaign trail, saying instead that she favors giving parent options.

But her signature lives in cyberspace -- click here.  It is interesting to note that her personal comment has since been removed.

If memory serves it read something like "public education is totally government controlled to socially engineer our society into dumbed down citizenry who will accept and tolerate whatever the government tells them to do."

Gee, why wouldn't the teachers endorse her?

Comments

[lindy]

and cary nunnally is running stall's campaign.
gee, tricia's kids went to public schools in newport news and public colleges. why would she dis public education?
ask her. then ask her why here web page changes daily.
now she endorses public education.
sounds like flip flopping to me.

[Cary Nunnally]

Teachers in our area are well aware what a heavy price they pay to the VEA for little benefit. Teachers can join VPA and get twice the coverage for a third of the money. The VEA has lost credibility. Its endorsement will work in Stall's favor.

[eileen]

But she nonetheless cannot change, delete or deny that her name appears on a Separation of School and State Proclamation declaring: "I proclaim publicly that I favor ending government involvement in education."