<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="3">Dear Visionaries:</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4">Researchers in my national union's office did a little research on Romney's claims about his educational achievements in his "home" state. Citizens there complain about the fact that he spent the last two years of his term running for the 2008 GOP nomination.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4">The Truth about Education in Romney’s Massachusetts</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4">Under the leadership of liberal Democrats and Liberal Republicans governors student achievement in Massachusetts was already the nation’s highest. Here is a summary of Mitt Romney’s actions while in office:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4"> • Proposed cutting $18 million needed to reduce class sizes.</font></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify">
<span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4"> • Cut $23 million from much-needed grants and scholarships for students to attend college.</font></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4"> • Eliminated grant funding for full-day kindergarten and early literacy programs.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4">• Vetoed a universal prekindergarten bill and questioned the benefits of early childhood education.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4">• Cut $2.3 million in special education funds and vetoed $6.5 million for special education residential schools.</font></span></p>
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