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Obama for America

"Children" +

:30 ad announced Aug. 22 to run on Aug. 23, 2012 in OH and VA .

Obama (voiceover): I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message.

[Music] Kevin: Some of our children’s greatest experiences have been in the smaller classrooms…

Male Announcer: But Mitt Romney says class sizes don’t matter…and he supports Paul Ryan’s budget which could cut education by 20 percent.

Kevin: You can’t do this by shoving 30, 35 people into a class and just teaching to some test…

Caroline: These are all issues that really he personally cannot relate to...  To be able to afford an education, to want the very best public education system for your children.

Notes: According to the press release, the ad...

highlights the clear choice for voters between Mitt Romney and President Obama’s 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.