San Diego district disinvites DeVos and hammers her 'ideologically driven view of our schools'

[fleur-de-lisa]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/san-diego-district-disinvites-betsy-devos-and-hammers-her-ideologically-driven-view-of-our-schools/

Board of Trustees of the San Diego Unified School District were expected to pass a resolution on Tuesday, Feb. 14 to extend an invitation to President Cheeto’s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos to visit the city’s schools.

On Monday, Feb. 13, however, Board President Richard Barrera released a statement announcing that the visit would not be happening, after all. Noting that the board’s intention was to help DeVos learn about what the public schools are doing well, Barrera wrote, “We also believed — and still believe — that her narrow ideologically driven view of our schools does not stand up to the facts. So, my intention was to challenge her views openly and in a public setting.”

The plans for a resolution to invite DeVos were first released on Friday, Feb. 10. They revealed the board was expected to invite the new education secretary for a visit “on a fact-finding mission to learn what the school district is doing to create quality public schools in every neighborhood, so that she can collect the data needed that will allow her to base her decisions on what is best for students rather than on any political ideology.”

Barrera’s statement noted, “Given the polarizing nature of the DeVos nomination and confirmation vote, however, it is clear this would be the wrong time to engage the Secretary in dialogue. Now is the time for those of us who believe in public education to stand together and confront the threat clearly posed by the DeVos ideology.” Barrera added he would withdraw his co-sponsorship of the resolution, effectively killing the measure.

[Lucinda]

1. I dunno. You can't even begin to re-educate her if she isn't exposed to reality.

[lpbk2713]

2. I love it.

Pulled the rug out from right underneath her they did.