Over the past decade, the Republican Party has unleashed a furious attack on public schools. The public has been inundated with absurd claims about “bad teachers,” which has diminished the number of people entering the teaching profession and driven out experienced educators. Other crazy claims: the public schools are unpatriotic, teach “critical race theory (which few teachers ever heard of), sexualize students (which may properly be attributed to the media and the Internet, not the public schools), etc.
Attacking the public schools is a central component of the privatization movement, which has used these canards to promote charters and vouchers.
Thankfully, Carol Kocivar, former president of the California State PTA and a writer, has created a template comparing Biden and Trump on the future of public schools.
She compares their budgets, their policies, and their priorities. You might want to send this to your friends and share widely. Trump would kill public schools, as his former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos recommended.
Kocivar begins:
A great divide: Public education vs private
In the presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, education didn’t come up even once, as EdWeek has noted. It’s an astonishing omission because the candidates have deep philosophical differences about education in America. These differences can change not only how schools are funded but how important topics are taught. At stake is what our children learn about democracy as well as about their rights and responsibilities as citizens.
This post reviews the differences between the candidates on education based on their records as well as their stated intentions. In a nutshell, Biden’s record and campaign statements point to incremental change and increased support for traditional public schools. Trump’s record and campaign statements point to reduced funding for public education along with programs to subsidize private and religious education.
Please open the link to compare the education plans of the GOP vs. the Democrats.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Education did not come up in the debate. Who is surprised?
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The Reichwing in the United States went absolutely nuts when we elected a black man as President, even though he was far, far, far from being a progressive.
Think how they are going to act when Kamala Harris is sworn in as president this coming January! They might spontaneously combust! ROFL. She is going to be one of the greatest presidents in the history of our nation. Let’s give her a Democratic Senate AND House to work with and start rolling back the egregious rewriting of our political system being done right now by the nonoriginalist, activist, backward, oligarchy-serving Roberts Extreme Court.
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The DUH-BAITS quack like exercises in hot-air authority. Pitch enough ‘jargon’ and ‘minutia’ to illustrate you are ‘one who knows’, one who should sit on the highest pedestal, of an ‘all men are created equal’ mythology. Pop the corn while the word keisters translate (define) the opposition out of existence. Play dumb. No matter how many privileges for the few are legalized, (hallmark of Aristocracy) school it as a democracy. Enter Kamala the savior.
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“As Abraham Lincoln put it, ‘the philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next.”
The public schools are the most important Democratic institution in America. 90% of US students matriculate through the public schools. A sound democracy requires an educated polity. Otherwise, the quality of our participation and operation of government suffers. This is why the Republican Party seeks the demise of the public schools. They believe in a government run by their minority with only scraps available for the rest of us. It is time for the Democratic Party to admit that experiments in privatization have put our republic at risk. The Democratic Party needs to provide full throated support for public schools through dynamic funding and support that insures quality facilities and teachers for all students. Pay teachers, build new schools, and provide the resources for time, money, and professional collaboration. Vigorously funding the public schools serves as an investment for societal prosperity and a bright future. We haven’t made such an investment and too many have suffered for it.
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Trump could care less about public education
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I tried to share this Edweek piece on facebook and they kibashed it for being against community standards.
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thanks so much for publishing this.
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