Reader Alice, a teacher, watched the Congressional oversight hearing where Acting Secretary John King robotically defended the ED chief information officer and said again and again that having two outside businesses (“hobbies”), hiring ED employees (“teaching”), and collecting a bonus while under an ethics investigation was just fine.
Alice was shocked by the ethics of the Department, the same Department that sanctimoniously lectures teachers, parents, and students.
Alice has been writing her elected officials. She is starting a campaign.
Will you join her?
Alice writes:
“Okay. I’m taking the leap. If anyone else is interested in speaking out as a unified voice regarding the contents of the Congressional hearing, and other relevant, pertinent education issues, please visit: http://fromwhereiteach.blogspot.com (It’s a blog-in-progress)
“Leave me a comment.
“Let’s take our collective intelligence and articulate, passionate words, direct them with laser precision and timing, and create some real change!”
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Plunderbund reported today that the Washington Post has a headline, “John Kasich Gets “F” in Schools”.
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Today, the Dispatch reports a bill by Republicans ensuring religious activities have equal time to secular. These “student” religious groups more often try to create a power clique to front an adult’s agenda and are very non-Christian in treatment of Others. The kicker, no student can be graded differently if advancing a religious view as science. So much for scientific method in science class, hello filling vacuums of knowledge with pseudo-science and ignorance.
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Mathvale,
Which Dispatch? What state?
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Sorry. Ohio.
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Visited the blog. Nice site. It’s always great to see how educators are working online to make something positive happen. Thanks for the link.
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I find it disturbing that we have had more than a dozen presidential debates counting both parties………and never, ever is there a significant question asked about education……and that is because there is not enough pressure on the media……they hate talking about it……and candidates have ten second escape answers…..so not bringing up anything about some of the most crucial things happening in people’s lives iworks well for the media and the politicians.
perhaps there should be a lobbying effort to demand a debate devoted solely to education.
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Joe
The Network for Public Education has been in touch with the campaigns, urging the candidates to make a speech about K-12. So far no luck. They only want to talk pre-K and college.
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The public is mistaken if they think, the issue of K-12 privatization isn’t a high enough priority to reach debate discussion. The candidates address each bookend, pre-school and university education, which demonstrates deliberate avoidance.
In the case of Bernie, he may not want to criticize Obama.
Cory Booker, advocate for school privatization, will be a stand-in for Hillary in an upcoming debate.
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