Betsy Devos On Track To Slash Public Education No thinking person should be surprised
Meanwhile--Repugs hitting on all of us --all across the USA!
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Betsy Devos On Track To Slash Public Education
No thinking person should be surprised
From Time
Randi Weingarten
May 19, 2017
Every time I read another piece on Betsy Devos I think of my mother. My mother was a teacher. Her love for learning, her own curiosity that made her a great teacher was something to behold. Going to the beach was never just an opportunity to build sand castles and go swimming it was always an adventure into the tidal pools, the rocks where starfish would hide and the carcasses of horseshoe crabs. Teaching was part of her being.
My respect for educators and for those that teach our children started then and has only grown knowing the challenges that they face. Betsy Devos has no respect for educators and she is not one. She is a rich woman with a point of view about education that has no foundation in facts. Now because she is the Secretary of Education under Donald Trump she has the power to affect our children’s education. And just as many of us predicted she is slashing the budget for public education to fund her pet projects – charters schools and voucher programs.
According to Randi Weingarten,
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The Trump/DeVos budget funnels more than $1 billion to new voucher and market strategies even though study after study concludes those strategies have hurt kids. Recent studies of voucher programs in Ohio and Washington, D.C., show students in these programs did worse than those in traditional public schools. Further, private voucher schools take money away from neighborhood public schools, lack the same accountability that public schools have, fail to protect kids from discrimination, and increase segregation..................................
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