Posted on 11/17/2016 5:27:01 AM PST by bryan999
The Donald Trump transition team is eyeing former Washington, D.C. public school chancellor Michelle Rhee for Secretary of Education, multiple sources close to the transition tell the Daily Mail.
The appointment of Rhee – who has been dubbed 'Public Enemy No. 1' of the teachers' unions -- would be a bold move by the Trump team, and a signal that his administration is gearing up to take an aggressive stance on education reform.
It would also cut across partisan lines. Rhee is a lifelong Democrat, and a proponent of Common Core, a set of federal education standards that is opposed by many conservatives and Donald Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Maybe she's merely not liberal enough for the libs whose feathers are ruffled.
Like, what did she actually ACCOMPLISH in the DC schools
nada
Now put her in the cabinet and multiply her non results by 57
Not impressed
Looking for an Asian female token imo
Hate to see Trump playing this game
Definite RED FLAG, which Freepers are letting go UNDER THE RADAR!
NEVER ASSUME.
I have to wonder why she chose to be a democrat. Makes me question her mental fitness. Does she want boys using girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms?
Hear ya.
The criteria is about WHAT you represent, not WHO one represents.
How do you know this? Has Donald announced it?
“Rhee is a lifelong Democrat, and a proponent of Common Core”
“Lost me right there. I heard Dr Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College is under consideration also. I like that him better.”
Agreed. Why put a Commie Core proponent in? Put Arnn as head of DOE with orders to close it down.
Reported to be eyeing her for position. Until the actual choice is made and announced to the public. I wouldn’t put much faith it what the press reports.
Kinda like the polls.
“Trump has vowed to abolish Common Core in his first 100 days”
Common Core is a set of education standards created by the National Governors Association. If Trump thinks he can abolish something that has nothing to do with the federal government he is deluded.
HUGE, our failed and unresponsive public schools are a drag on our economy and our nation.
I put school reform in the top 10 of necessary reforms.
Congress established the U.S. Department of Education (ED) on May 4, 1980, in the Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96-88 of October 1979). Under this law, ED’s mission is to:
Strengthen the Federal commitment to assuring access to equal educational opportunity for every individual;
Supplement and complement the efforts of states, the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the states, the private sector, public and private nonprofit educational research institutions, community-based organizations, parents, and students to improve the quality of education;
Encourage the increased involvement of the public, parents, and students in Federal education programs;
Promote improvements in the quality and usefulness of education through Federally supported research, evaluation, and sharing of information;
Improve the coordination of Federal education programs;
Improve the management of Federal education activities; and
Increase the accountability of Federal education programs to the President, the Congress, and the public.
http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/mission/mission.html
Our mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.
Comments?
If they are scouring these forums looking for our opinions, then we need to share them
I tihnk someone is reading
Not just Urban, 2 grands live in Calhoon, GA, and cursive was never taught. 1 went off to college this year sans cursive ability, 2nd is 17 and still can’t read or write cursive.
I am a adequate basic math person, this commie core math is worse than algebra. Thankfully I learned the basics in the 50’s.
Then there’s Betsy DeVos. She is a proponent of school choice and charter schools.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2016/11/16/betsy-devos-education-secretary-trump/93973224/
From Breitbart:
Includes a longer list of potential names for Ed Sec.
Being a Common Core proponent is surely a highly questionable trait. She’ll suddenly reverse her opinion because of...?
The Daily Mail?
Interesting! Would be great to have an administrator in the field of education who sincerely cares about children.
The National Education Association has been Public Enemy No. 1 for me for a long time.
Anti-Christian, pro-homosexual, pro-Marxist-socialist, anti-male, money-grubbing, Democrat-supporting bunch of people who use and abuse our precious children for their unAmerican and sometimes perverted purposes.
And our pubic school teachers that have quietly paid their dues and bowed to them all these years? F THEM! I want to see vouchers and new school additions on churches across the land!
To you good, Christian, hetero-normative teachers - now is the time to take on the N.E.A.
Maybe Trump has already turned her? Or maybe she turned herself?
People change... I think this is an excerpt is from her book (and from the Daily Beast article I linked above):
“But I drew a very deep line in the sand when it came to vouchers. As a lifelong Democrat I was adamantly against vouchers. Vouchers provide public funds to parents who need help in paying tuition for private or parochial schools. Proponents, mostly Republicans, see vouchers as leveling the field and broadening choice for families. Detractors, usually Democrats, decry the use of public funds to pay for private education. I had bought into the arguments that Democrats and others use in opposition to vouchers: vouchers are a way of taking money away from public school systems and putting them into private schools; vouchers help only a handful of the kids; and vouchers take children and resources away from the schools and districts that need those resources the most.
For all of those reasons, my view on vouchers was set.
But soon after I arrived in Washington, D.C., I was in a pickle. The District of Columbia had Opportunity Scholarships, a federally funded voucher program that helped poor families attend private schools. The program was up for reauthorization, and there was a heated debate going on in the city.
“You’re the most high-profile education official in the city,” a Washington Post reporter asked. “Do you think the Opportunity Scholarship program should be re-upped?”
My inclination was to say no. As a good Democrat, I should have responded, “I don’t support vouchers, because they are not a systemic solution to the problems we face.” No one would have been surprised or upset with that answer.
However, I wanted to have my facts straight. So I decided to meet with families across the city and spend some time better understanding the Opportunity Scholarships initiative. It’s amazing what one can learn from talking to parents.
The outreach I did about the Opportunity Scholarships was part of a countless number of meetings I had with parents over the course of my time in D.C. Many of those parents were young mothers who came to me looking for answers. Although they were different in many ways, they often came with the same goal: better schooling opportunities for their children. Usually mothers would request meetings with me during the school selection process that takes place each January and February.
The typical mom would come to the meeting armed with data and talking points. For example:
“I currently live in Southeast,” she would say. “Our house is zoned to the local elementary school. I have done quite a bit of research into the school and was shocked to find that only 20 percent of the children are operating at grade-level proficiency. That means my child has an 80 percent likelihood of failure. That’s simply not acceptable for me and my family.”
Absolutely right, I would think.
Then the mother would tell me she had gone online and researched all the best schools in the district. She had read about Mann and Key elementary schools, in Northwest D.C. She told me either would give her child a better education, even though it would mean two hours of commuting a day. She had applied to those schools and a number of others through a lottery process that allowed out-of-boundary students to attend certain schools.
It goes on, too much to paste here. But it details her own evolution on the subject of vouchers.
Link again: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/04/michelle-rhee-my-break-with-the-democrats.html
Anyway, maybe she feels the same about Common Core...? I’m going to wait and see before I make any conclusions about her... the press wants to confuse us after all.
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