Betsy DeVos called Lily Eskelsen Garcia, the president of the National Education Association. She said, let’s talk. Lily wrote her a letter laying out some conditions before talking or meeting.
Read Lily’s letter here.
http://lilysblackboard.org/2017/02/betsy-devos-called-sent-letter/
Here are her conditions:
“It’s important for educators, parents, and communities to know where you stand on some of the most critical work of the federal Department of Education. We must ask you to give us the substantive answers that we did not hear you give to the senators at your hearing on issues critical to our students:
1. Do you agree that all schools receiving public dollars must be held to the same accountability and transparency standards?
2. Will you agree not to privatize funding for Special Education of Title I?
3. Will you stand with educators and protect our most vulnerable students from discrimination, including LGBT students, immigrant students, students of color, girls and English language learners?
4. Will you focus, as educators are focused, on the civil rights of all children, regardless of their ZIP code, by challenging the inequities so many face in equal access to programs, services and support?”
Reblogged this on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé.
Devos already blew # 3
I told her — ❝Lily, Don’t Go❢❞
Yeah, there is no reason or time to talk anymore. We already know enough to get rid of her.
Teachers have now watched union leaders “go along to get along” for years and years and years. The reality has become death by a slowly and regularly delivered thousand cuts in place of leadership standing strong, uniting teachers, and facing down the monster.
Agreed. Cowardice seems the rule. Many union leaders have taken the membership for granted, not realizing that the Reagan generation does not really believe. And these same union leaders failed to deliver a convincing message to those too young in the profession to have experienced teaching before the unions.
I disagree. Ms. Garcia should meet/talk with the new SecEd. “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer” – Michael Corleone