You will note that all of Betsy DeVos’s stories are about struggling students who were rescued from failing public schools by choosing to go to a charter school, a religious school, a home school, or a virtual charter school. Apparently she has never in her life seen a successful public school.
Her latest story is about a young man from India who attended the usual horrible public school. But his life was turned around because he had the good fortune to attend a virtual charter school in Washington State. DeVos was speaking to the National Association of State Boards of Education.
Mercedes Schneider decided it was time for fact-checking.
The young man to whom DeVos referred attended a virtual charter with a four-year graduation rate of 19.1%. After five years, the graduation rate was up to 23.6%.
Surely, someone on her staff knew this. Yet she chose to conceal that the young man succeeded in a failing school.
Like Trump, DeVos must be constantly fact-checked. Her stories are misleading and inaccurate and have no point other than to smear public schools.
Devos: Queen of the cherry-pickers.
Like Trump, DeVos must be constantly fact-checked. Her stories are misleading and inaccurate and have no point other than to smear public schools.
The smear campaign must be sustained or the conversion of public to private cannot be completed.
So is this critical background information that DeVos omitted being sent on to the National Association of State Boards of Education that she was trying to con?
That’s exactly what these POS do in the new administration, ALT-facts. The new term that is going around when you blow a question but it still turns out in your favor is.. I DeVos’d it. Sorry state we’re in. Something gotta go.
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The Trump Administration is drowning in its own lies, and Betsy DeVos, the deplorable, incompetent U.S. Sectary of Education, must also be constantly fact-checked.
Background and motivation are key elements in determining the success in cyber charters. The only students that can function in such a sterile environment are mature, motivated middle class students. It has been a failure for most poor students for whom forging a positive relationship with a caring adult is paramount to their success. DeVos can cherry pick and crow about one student, but the facts tell the true story of worthless cyber instruction that is inappropriate for the very students they want to cheaply service. In fact, the overall results are abysmal!
Mature, motivated middle class students”
Yes, and/or ones who have overachiever parents hounding them every minute.
I don’t think it is any accident that the one student who succeeded is from India where testing is a way if life and the only way a student can hope to succeed is by doing all sorts of extra work outside the traditional classroom.
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It’s weird that no one at the US Dept of Ed can find a single successful student at a traditional public school.
Not one.
There are no public school parents who support their children’s public schools, either. Zero.
They keep saying they are “agnostic” but they consistently omit public schools. I don’t think they’re “agnostic” at all. I think they’re running a political campaign promoting charters and vouchers.
“The One Union Deformer’s Like”
Betsy is a yokel
In Union number 2
The Cherry-picker’s local
Where “choose” is what they do
After re-reading this story it occured to me that this “success story” had very little to do with the school or the setting but rather the real story is the student decided that his education was worth getting.
If he doesn’t change his attitude and approach then nothing else matter. The student should be recognized for his improvement. The “school” had very little to do with it.
Diane, I think a correction is in order. This is is a K12 virtual school but apparently not a charter. It appears to be run directly out of Quillayute Valley School District, which is not an approved charter authorizer under Washington law.
Nelson,
Whatever it is, it is not a successful school
Has the CT senator who questioned DeVos re guns in schools at her hearing invited her to a CT school yet?
…but it was cheaper, for the school, to educate this student…and where did the taxpayer dollars go…and, is there a union? Are the lessons straight out of the box, turnkey? DeVos and her ilk would LOVE to eliminate the brick and mortar schools, and have a one-size-fits-all use over and over and over “product” to display on a computer screen. If the kids learn, great – its a success. And when it isn’t a success? They’ll show you kid who wanted to succeed, regardless if the lessons came at a discount. Homeschooling? Great (cheap). School in a box/computer lessons? Great (cheap). Religious schools? We know how Betsy stands on that issue….how is she going to feel when those tax dollars are going to non-christian religious schools? Will she then change her tune, or call it the cost of gathering more kids into HER God’s kingdom?