Posted on 11/23/2016 10:20:12 AM PST by hotsteppa
BREAKING NEWS: President-elect Donald Trump has named Betsy DeVos, a conservative activist and billionaire philanthropist who has pushed forcefully for private school voucher programs nationwide, as his nominee for education secretary, according to a person close to DeVos.
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Teachers unions are fit to be tied. She’s gotta be good. I tutor kids - the teachers are bailing on Common Core and giving the kids ‘supplementary’ material that skirts it. The parents are furious, the teachers hate it, the kids are flummoxed by it - well, they WERE until the teachers started skirting it.
It will sink with the weight of its vileness before long, and DeVos will help to bury it. Not to worry.
If she were to propose RIF’ing 50% of DOE employees, as a starting measure, I’d support her almost without question.
You are correct.
I for one would like to see the DOEd relegated to the scrap heap of history with all its punch returned to the states. Including a proportional allocation of the school lunch program funding.
You ask her. Sheesh you are an obstinate toadie, and are boring the crap out of me. bye
Part of the problem is ease of mobility, it makes it too easy to just abandon what we don’t like and leaving it to the lowlifes instead of making a stand where we are. Eventually the day comes when there is nowhere to escape to.
Wonder where she stands on SEX EDUCATION in schools....like to see it dropped, except with parental permission in high school.
She is admits she has been a member of associations that support Common Core, but claims she does not support it personally.
I hope this is not a case of explaining “what is is”.
My daughter’s elementary school just started allowing some kids from disadvantaged communities to go there, with their tuition paid by the school. These kids have already started vandalizing the bathrooms and causing other problems.
I totally agree with you about "school choice" vouchers for the reasons you state.
Government keeps paying more and more for helping kids go to college, but nobody’s tuition ever really goes down does it?
If government gave everybody a $5000 voucher to use for tuition, all tuition would go up by $5000. It's simply the law of supply and demand. Too many citizens including most of our so-called "leaders" have little or no understanding of basic economics.
Get the government out of education altogether and let the free market work.
Most politicians are against ‘common core’ these days.
It’s a poisoned name.
What they still support is fedgov control of some or most of the curriculum.
She hasn’t denied that.
Most states that passed anti-common core initiatives simply renamed the same curriculum. And still teach it.
DO it! replace the public school monopoly
Yep
You put it better than I did.
Also, one of the biggest reasons for private schools is to get you kid away from the riffraff! I would rather have my daughter have a mediocre or even lousy teacher at a private school than a great teacher at an inner city school.
There are some good articles on what school choice is about if you would bother to read them. Common Core is the least of our worries, we have to keep our eyes on the structure they are shooting for. I think we will have to go down this road before we realize what it really means. Slick marketing and echo chambers abound on School Choice. CC gets rebranded.
Here is an excerpt on Choice from the linked article below:
“That’s what School Choice has always been about. This is from the Foreword to the 1990 book, written by the Brookings’ President (my bolding):
“the nation’s education problem, then, is an institutional problem. To overcome it, the authors recommend a new system of public education based on fundamentally new institutions. They propose a shift away from a system of schools controlled directly by the government–through politics and bureaucracy–to a system of indirect control that relies on markets and parental choice.”
Trump never conferred with the activists who live and breathe education on the ground as he did on immigration.
We had to take a hit somewhere I guess.
I’m still not sick of winning.
Let me say this. She will do what she is told to do or she will be fired. She sets no policy— TRUMP SETS POLICY. Common Core is DEAD!!
A graduate of Calvin College.
Conservative, evangelical Christian. I’m not worried about her one bit. A million times better than what we’ve had.
From the site:
Q: There’s been a lot of talk about Common Core. Can you provide some straight talk on this topic?
Certainly. I am not a supporter—period.
I do support high standards, strong accountability, and local control. When Governors such as John Engler, Mike Huckabee, and Mike Pence were driving the conversation on voluntary high standards driven by local voices, it all made sense.
Have organizations that I have been a part of supported Common Core? Of course. But that’s not my position. Sometimes it’s not just students who need to do their homework.
However, along the way, it got turned into a federalized boondoggle.
Above all, I believe every child, no matter their zip code or their parents’ jobs, deserves access to a quality education.
Rush job. Reversing the order of paragraphs 3 & 4 would make for better flow / clarity. :-)
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