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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeVos: "It is not the education dept's. job to protect LGBTQ students."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/betsy-devos-lgbtq-students_us_5936c878e4b013c4816b4ebcU.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Tuesday that her agency would not give federal funds to private schools that defy federal antidiscrimination laws. However, she suggested it is not the Department of Educations job to prevent discrimination against students in cases in which federal antidiscrimination laws are murky, such as with LGBTQ students.
DeVos took part in a contentious hearing before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education on Tuesday morning. There, Democrats and Republicans hammered the secretary on the administrations proposed budget, which would cut billions of dollars in funding for public education while increasing money to support school choice programs. The budget directs some of this funding toward helping students attend private and religious schools.
While under questioning from Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), DeVos wouldnt definitively say whether private schools receiving federal funds would be punished for religious discrimination or discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students. She maintained that these schools would be required to follow federal antidiscrimination laws, but said the Department of Education would not be issuing any directives beyond that.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)Yes it is you deplorable ratbag .
dchill
(38,532 posts)and her cronies.
Botany
(70,581 posts)God damn I hate those mother fuckers. It is the job of the schools, the school districts,
and the Dept. of Education to protect ALL students.
BTW we are the United States of America because in no small part because of a
gay man, Barron von Stuben ..... and we won WW II in part because of a gay man,
Alan Turing.
As a dumb ass old white straight guy I just don't get it. Johnny Mac speaks for me.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029165655
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)then should put her money where her mouth and stop fronting for christofascist theocracy.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)be so evil? Don't those children represent enough money per student to hold her attention and compassion? She, and her brother, are sure cut from the same bolt of cloth.
pepperbear
(5,648 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I have 5 teachers in my family. They are all worried about their jobs, even though they have high seniority. The Repubs now have our public school system "bigly" screwed up and our local union contracts are worthless. Seniority is just a word in the dictionary and teachers are demoralized because they no longer have any protection or say in the performance of their jobs.
Now, DeVos sweeps onto the scene and brings forth her warped ideas of how an educational system should be run. You can tell from her testimony that she doesn't have any idea of the history of public education or the actual progress of present day education. How many private/Christian schools are successful? Profitable? One of our local Christian schools sends their students to the public schools for certain types of classes not available there. Seems they are competent enough to handle that task.
She will be in office just long enough to royally screw everything up and then get bored and move to her next conquest. What a hateful woman.
Thanks for the article.
gademocrat7
(10,669 posts)Thrill
(19,178 posts)Arazi
(6,829 posts)It fucking is your job ferchrissake
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)In your heart, you do not believe LGBTQ kids deserve protection.
You are a horrid horrible person.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)There has to be a way to get rid of this evil woman before she causes irreparable damage to our educational system.
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justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)She's right, we aren't a federally protected class so legally people can and still do discriminate against us. And I think Obama's EO doesn't necessarily work here.
salin
(48,955 posts)Sorry your private schooling excluded this land mark Supreme Court ruling back in 1954. Sixty three years of history, has passed you by. This and other Supreme Court rulings regarding civil rights that clearly were absent in your private school education, are important for you to read and become familiar with for you to carry out role as Sec. of Education for the federal government. If you find yourself a bit overwhelmed by all of this information that you were shielded from in your private school education - but is binding you in your actions as Sec. of Education - take it as a personal "learnable moment" - as you push a 'school choice' agenda over public school - does it matter if schools that receive public funds, exclude actual history and science facts - that may leave a graduate - unable to perform a future job due to that exclusion of information/knowledge?
SharonAnn
(13,778 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)is that they are blaming Obama. Look at what the rethug chairman said in her support.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)LGBTQ families, however, aren't good enough to go into those schools. Is that about the size of it?