Posted on 01/18/2017 4:44:21 PM PST by mdittmar
DeVos Confirmation Hearing: Public Education Funding
Patty is just mean-spirited.
Murray: I really am troubled by some of the comments and things you said about public education – how you see the role of the department you’ve been nominated to lead now. So my first question for you really is – yes or no, that’s all I want is a yes or no – do you believe that the mission of the Department of Education should be to strengthen public education for all of our students?
DeVos: Yes, I do.
Murray: Good – so can you commit to us tonight that you will not work to privatize public schools or cut a single penny from public education?
DeVos: Senator – thanks for that question. Um…I look forward – if confirmed – to working with you to talk about how we address the needs of all parents and all students, and we acknowledged today that not all schools are working for the students that are assigned to them, and I’m hopeful that we can work together to find common ground and ways that we can solve those issues and empower parents to make choices on behalf of their children that are right for them.
Murray: I take that as not being willing to commit to not privatizing public schools or cutting money from education?
DeVos: Well, well, I guess wouldn’t characterize it in that way.
Murray: Well, ok.
Patty Murray is both disgusting and a blithering idiot, and she proves it every time she opens that trap of hers. How this idiot gets elected is beyond me!
Can NOT stand Murray. Such a hypocrite. Accepted almost 1/2 a million from Big Pharma since 2011. She talks out of both sides of her mouth. Wonder how much she has accepted from the Teacher’s Unions?
The NEA owns patty.
They should remove the cameras, which would reduce the grandstanding, at least a little.
She plays the "mom in tennis shoes" bullshit every election, and the WA idiots eat it up. She is extremely stupid, and, apparently, very corrupt as well.
In other words, a mainstream liberal Democrat.
IMO DeVos is right on about parental primacy and choice in education.
What I am concerned about is the fact she seems not concerned about the Common Core curriculum and methodology as well as its predecessors which is a damaging conventional wisdom about content and method which has permeated the American education profession. It is said her money is printing and selling Common Core acceptable textbooks.
There is nothing better suited as a basis for all careers and professions than a classical methodology and curriculum for all children in the early years.
I encourage all interested to look at the online essay by Dorothy Sayers, “The Lost Tools of Learning”. Also investigate a school in the Rio Grand Valley utilizing the principles set forth in that essay.
Never have I seen/heared more despicable excuses for supposedly educated, you-would-think well-mannered ppl who are actually so pedestrian and ill-equipped to serve, that they are an embarrassment to our country. Apparently they feel that these hearings are their platform to show their constituents that they are “all down for the people” and these Republicans up for cabinet positions are cokd hearted billionaires who don’t care about anything but lining their own pockets.
I for one, have called all four of my Pennsylvania congressman who are boycotting the innaguration, to tell them that I am now making it my second job to make sure that they do not win reelection and that I hope they enjoy Washington while they are there. Many republicans have to go, too.
When a private business owner refuses to serve a customer for whatever reason, we are told that it is a public business.
When a private school wants to control the criteria for teachers and students, we are told it must follow the public standards.
But when we want to let the parents control where to send their children and control the money for those children, then suddenly the school becomes private.
He who controls the language.....
I love it. I’d give vouchers to every black family that wants it for starters. Wait a year for the rest. Illegal but just see what happens!
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