Nancy Bailey writes that the best way to fire Betsy DeVos is to vote for Biden and Harris.
She writes:
If you’re Democrat or Republican, and you care about public education, vote for V.P. Joe Biden to remove Education Secretary Betsy DeVos from the U.S. Department of Education! Four more years of Betsy DeVos means the end of public education.
With a President Biden, public schools have a chance of surviving. With a President Trump, they don’t. It’s as simple as that.
You may be thinking, Democratic leadership has failed public education in the past. Many were disappointed in the Obama administration’s Race to the Top.
Once there’s a President Biden, the country can remind him of this. But the odds of losing our schools with a President Biden is less of a worry now than leaving DeVos in her perch at the U.S. Department of Education.
There are dozens of reasons to check the Biden/Harris ticket. Public schools affect every other issue on the ballot, every issue we face as a nation. Democratic public schools are the backbone of the nation.
She goes on to explain why we all should be worried about the damage Trump and DeVos can do if given four more years to transfer public funds to non-public schools.
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Wonderful article by Nancy Bailey.
I can’t imagine another 4 more years of this horrible dumpster and his gang of liars, cheaters, and sex offenders.
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Firing Ditzy DeVoid, aka Clueless DeVille, younger but equally cruel sister of Cruella, is reason enough to vote for Biden. Call this sufficient reason number 134,586.
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This is a WONDERFUL article by Ms. Bailey. It is a specific, multi-count indictment of DeVoid and Don the Con for their abuse of children via the policies and practices of the current Department for the Privatization and Promotion of Theocracy in U.S. Education (the DPPT-USE), formerly the USDE.
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Ed reform must love the Republican Convention. No mention of public schools other than to bash them. They have a nightly Bash Public Schools Half Hour.
I can’t distinguish between the ed reform Republicans approach to public schools (wholly negative) and the ed reform Democrats approach (also wholly negative).
Is there a difference? What (exactly) is it?
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a sidenote: it is interesting to watch the RNC’s “nightly Bash Public Schools” messaging while knowing that a huge percent of Trump supporters couldn’t function without the public school system—they have no clue that he/his lineup are only speaking to the rich
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Teachers voted for Obama and got Arne Duncan, Race to the Top, and Common Core. I’m not convinced that Biden/Harris (neoliberals favoring market-based solutions) will do an excellent job for public educators. Better than Trump/Pence? Yeah, I suppose. Has there ever been a lower bar over which a candidate has to jump?
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Whomever is selected as Biden’s Secretary of Education will be a million times better than DeVos. Biden has pledged a major increase in funding. His wife is a professional educator. Are you a Trump troll?
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LOVE the headline! You’re on fire, Diane!!!
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The rigorous and totally non-biased researchers of ed reform issued a report on how well charter schools did in the pandemic.
The charters ended up looking really great, mostly because the rigorous research completely (and deliberately) excluded every public school in the country.
https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/research/schooling-covid-19-lessons-leading-charter-networks-their-transition-remote
They compare charters to….. the public schools they didn’t include. Perhaps unsurprisingly, charters totally won this competition!
Things that public schools all over the country were doing – feeding kids, scraping by to get devices- are attributed to the unique genius of ed reform leaders. It’s just nonsense.
I get it- they all promote charters and vouchers. But is it really necessary to portray public schools in this unfair and unflattering light in order to promote privatization? How is this fair to students in public schools? Is this part of the reason our schools were so grossly neglected in funding, because we have 15 ed reform lobbies working full time against them?
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Here’s how ed reform chooses to portray every public school in the country:
“An analysis from the Center for Reforming Public Education found that by June, three months after schools closed, “only one-third of districts expect[ed] all of their teachers to continue to engage and interact with all of their students around the curriculum content…. Just one in three districts expect[ed] teachers to provide instruction, track student engagement, or monitor academic progress for all students…. Only 27 percent of rural and small-town school districts expect[ed] teachers to provide instruction…. Far too many districts are leaving learning to chance during the coronavirus closures.”
In other words, remote learning was a disaster.
But not for everyone.”
Got that? Every public school in the country was a “disaster” and only these 8 charter chains succeeded in the pandemic.
Is it any wonder we can’t get politicians to do anything for our schools? They’re surrounded by this “movement” echo chamber chorus who tell them every day that all public schools are failing.
If you have a kid in a public school you KNOW this isn’t true. You watched them feed kids and scramble for devices and access to wifi and spend the whole summer frantically working to open the school. But this is the narrative lawmakers hear, and they never hear from anyone else, not in the Trump Administration, not in the Obama Administration and not in the Bush Administration. Twenty years of ed reform lobbying.
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Bailey makes a clear case for why anyone the supports public education must vote for Biden/Harris. It is the only way public schools can be given any consideration at all. Public schools have spent far too many years a mere a host to parasitic charters and/or vouchers. I will take Biden at his word. It is time to build back better. Bailey notes that if Biden/Harris win, we must hold them accountable.
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There are thousands of reasons to get rid of the maladministration of the QAnon/Alex Jones president. He must be ousted to put this country back on the tracks to sanity and decency. The GOP has decided to go with the Joe McCarthy/Roy Cohen dirty tricks ops with lying on an epic massive scale. All we can do is to hope that enough Americans will come to their senses and vote this human pustule out of office. Biden/Harris will be a great antidote to the sickness of Trumpism.
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