Billionaire President-elect chooses billionaire amateur to lead the US Education Department.
REACTIONS AND COMMENTS
My reaction:
The losers are the 50.4 million children attending America's K-12 public schools.
Betsy DeVos-- Secretary of Education
...it was always only a question of what form the shafting of American public education would take.
...* She is a leader of the American Federation for Children, a dark money group that works school privatization. AFC is also a trustee-level member of ALEC, which means when you see ALEC pushing privatization, you will find the DeVos fingerprints on their work.
...* While it may seem that DeVos is a charterization fan, what she would really like is vouchers, with the prospect of shuffling public tax dollars to private religious schools, new for-profit charters, and pretty much anything except public schools.
...* In keeping with her Station in Life, DeVos has never held down an actual job.
...* It will be no surprise that DeVos has never worked in education, and her children never attended (as near as I can discover) public school.
...she would rather privatize public education than help it, she would like to make teachers unions a thing of the past, and she has a deep sense of her own rightness.
Betsy DeVos, billionaire donor and school privatizer, is the new EdSec.
The attack on public schools, teachers and unions will continue.
The union-haters and charter lovers can break out the champagne.
Trump Chooses Betsy DeVos For Education Secretary
President-elect Donald Trump has picked billionaire Betsy DeVos, a Michigan Republican activist and philanthropist who is a strong supporter of school choice but has little experience with public education, as his secretary of education.
Washington Post: Meet Betsy DeVos
The story says that some studies find that voucher students are more likely to go to college. Those studies show that voucher schools have high rates of attrition. The students who don’t transfer back to public schools are slightly more likely to go to college. The studies typically don’t factor in the students who leave when calculating the graduation rate. In Milwaukee, for example, 44% of the kids who started in voucher schools in 9th grade dropped out before graduation.
Trump selects DeVos as education secretary
NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia said in a statement that DeVos' efforts have undermined public education.
"She has consistently pushed a corporate agenda to privatize, de-professionalize and impose cookie-cutter solutions to public education," Eskelsen Garcia said. "By nominating Betsy DeVos, the Trump administration has demonstrated just how out of touch it is with what works best for students, parents, educators and communities.”
###
No comments:
Post a Comment