Arnold Talks Shop
Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee gives Governor Schwarzenegger credit for getting beyond politics and pushing vocational education:
“For too long, vocational ed has been looked down upon and considered second-class education,” Schwarzenegger said. “People who say that could not be more wrong.” There is, it should be noted, no political advantage for Schwarzenegger to be an advocate of voc-ed, or “career and technical education” (CTE), as it’s now termed to remove some of the stigma. Politically, it would be much better for Schwarzenegger to pander, as other politicians have done, to parental prejudices for college. He’s doing it because he believes in it, pure and simple.
Framed correctly, I’m not sure talking about non-traditional education is such bad politics. For example, if you’re looking for an issue to test that has a lot of potential with Latino voters, try adult education.
