Betsy DeVos is dangerously and embarrassingly unqualified to lead the...
Betsy DeVos and her Husband have a long history of promoting Charter Schools in Michigan . They have donated Millions in an effort to promote these for Profit schools . The Gop have long painted...
View ArticleDangerous Choice for Public Education TBD Today #DumpDeVos
Yesterday, Betsy DeVos, President Trump’s education secretary nominee, submitted written answers to questions from the Senate Education Committee. As in her hearing, she avoided substantially answering...
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DeVos Ramifications Flowchart
The prospect of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education is alarming, as it is for many others. The Detroit Free Press, Politico and other articles were illuminating. It’s not just that DeVos...
View ArticleBrat & DeVos Team: A Nightmare for Parents and Educators
Be afraid; be very afraid. This is our warning to parents, teachers, and public school administrators in Virginia, especially if you live in Virginia’s 7th Congressional district. Michigan’s Betsy...
View ArticleTrump and DeVos Push Failing School Voucher Plan – Alan Singer’s Latest...
Donald Trump and Betsy “Amway” DeVos will probably dismiss a recent New York Times article highlighting the failure of voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio to improve student learning as...
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Republicans Love Affair with Shoddy Voucher Programs
Republicans are anxiously pushing voucher programs for healthcare and education. If successful every person, young and old, will find themselves without adequate healthcare when costs rise and...
View ArticleWill Los Angeles voters let their school board tilt toward the Betsy DeVos...
Los Angeles voters have a choice on Tuesday. The city is holding Board of Education elections, and big-money backers of charter schools—one of the forms of education privatization framed as “choice” by...
View ArticleWell-Connected Charter Threatens Manhattan High School - Alan Singer's Latest...
The New York City Charter School of the Arts is well connected and University Neighborhood High School is not. The charter school, which went into operation at the downtown private Pine Street School...
View ArticleThe Choice for Donald Trump -- Fix Our Public Schools, or Let China or India...
Lindy Elkins-Tanton, writing in Slate, writes that if India or China were to beat us to Mars, it would feel like a military defeat for us. If Trump’s Secretary of Education gets her way, then school...
View ArticleMassachusetts faces a zombie attack on public education
Some people really cannot take a damn hint, even when the hint comes in the form first of a lawsuit being dismissed and second in the form of a massive defeat at the polls. A trio of hotshot Boston...
View ArticleEMERGENCY! To all Parents, Teachers and Basically Anyone:
By Guest Blogger, Mollie KidariFYI: Having a school voucher system (proposed by Trump's Education secretary Betsy DeVos) doesn't just mean you can choose any school you want your kid to go to. It also...
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the dismantling, de-funding, and disappearance of public education -- this is...
Back in 2003, Kenneth Remsen, a school principal in Vermont, wrote a cautionary tale called No Cow Left Behind and in response to the 2002 No Child Left Behind unfunded legislation imposed during the...
View ArticleCalifornia is undermining public education by spending big on charter schools...
California charter schools have gotten more than $2.5 billion to build, lease, or buy school buildings over the past 15 years. Has the money been well spent? Not if by “well spent” you mean fulfilling...
View ArticleSchool boards – the first line of resistance to charter schools and...
33 states have jurisdictions with school board elections coming up. School board races are usually non-partisan; that is political parties do not field candidates but do make endorsements, which comes...
View ArticleIn Minnesota, Walmart-style education is not a figure of speech
Here’s the effort to kill public schools in action. There are 36,000 students in Minneapolis-St. Paul public schools, Ed Hive MN’s Rob Levine reports. There are about 25,000 students in charter schools...
View ArticleOur Revolution Fights Back Against Betsy DeVos' Agenda By Helping These...
Received this e-mail today from Bernie Sanders’ group, Our Revolution:Our public schools need your support. With the most unqualified Secretary of Education in our country's history pushing for-profit...
View ArticlePaul Ryan's visit to charter school in Harlem ends with him leaving to...
Speaker Paul Ryan announced and visited one of the more publicly praised charter schools in the country, Harlem’s Success Academy. Run by the terrible human being Eva Moscowitz, Ryan and Moscowitz and...
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United Teachers Los Angeles Refuses To Let Betsy DeVos & Billionaires...
Received this e-mail yesterday from the United Teachers Los Angeles in support of Steve Zimmer’s (D. CA) re-election to LAUSD Board of Education District 4:Will Los Angeles let out-of-state...
View ArticleHelp Defeat Betsy DeVos' Agenda, Sign Up To Help Get Out The Vote For Imelda...
Received this e-mail today from Imelda Padilla’s (D. CA) campaign:Friends, As you know, tomorrow is the day before the election. Will you spare some time and help me with voter outreach one last time?...
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FL-Gov: Gwen Graham (D) Refuses To Let Rick Scott (R) Push Through Betsy...
Received this e-mail today from former Rep. Gwen Graham’s (D. FL) gubernatorial campaign:Gwen Graham (D. FL)I know I sent you an email earlier -- but this is too important not to write you again....
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