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From: Obama for America Press [mailto:press@barackobama.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 05:58 AM Subject: Obama for America Releases New Television Ad: "Children"

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 Contact: Obama for America Press (312) 985-1198 Obama for America Releases New Television Ad: Children CHICAGOObama for America today released a new television advertisement titled Children that highlights the clear choice for voters between Mitt Romney and President Obamas vision for public education. The President believes a strong education system is critical to creating an economy built to last,keeping America competitive, and growing our economy from the middle class out. The Romney-Ryan plan could gut investments in education by 20 percent and risk as many as 65,000 educators jobs to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, the Romney-Ryan plan denies what every parent knows: class size matters, education funding matters, and, most of all, teachers matter.
!The President has provided temporary support for more than 400,000 educator jobs in the face of

state budget cuts caused by the recession, and he is calling on Congress to provide support to 325,000 more a step that would help the recovery and strengthen state schools for years to come. This is part of a wave of education reform spurred by President Obama including encouraging nearly every state to raise academic standards with a modest investment through the Race to the Top initiative, offering states committed to reform flexibility from the most unworkable parts of No Child Left Behind, and reforming the student loan system by ending billions of dollars in wasteful taxpayer subsidies to banks and instead using that money to directly help more Americans pay for college.
!!Children will air in Virginia and Ohio on Thursday.

Please click HERE to watch the new ad.

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TITLE Children MEDIA TV30:30 DATE 8/22/12 AD VO: Im!Barack!Obama!and!I!approve!this message. ! VO: Some!of!our!childrens!greatest!experiences have!been!in!the!smaller!classrooms ! Visual: Kevin!&!Caroline VO: But!MiC!Romney!says!class!sizes!dont maCer ! Visual: Washington!Times!5/24/12 Romney!downplays!value!of!small!class!sizes !
Romney: The Effort To Reduce Classroom Size Washington Times Headline: Romney Downplays Value Of Small Class Size [Washington Times, 5/24/12] MITT ROMNEY SAYS CLASS SIZES ARENT RELEVANT TO CHILDRENS LEARNING

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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 those school systems. [Education Roundtable, Philadelphia, PA, 5/24/12]

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 a great 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 ! Visual: Cut!educaDon!funding!by!20% Center!on!Budget!and!Policy!PrioriDes,!5/21/12 Reuters,!8/18/12

Non-Defense Discretionary Programs Include Elementary And Secondary Education. The cuts in 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 THE ROMNEY-RYAN BUDGET COULD CUT EDUCATION SPENDING BY 20 PERCENT

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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]

If Ryan Budget Cuts Were Distributed Evenly Across 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 specialeducation 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 Ryan Budget. [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 Romney has 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 It And 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 ! VO: These!are!all!issues!that!really!he!personally cannot!relate!to.!To!be!able!to!aord!an educaKon,!to!want!the!very!best!public educaKon!system!for!your!children. !

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