When charter and public schools are pitted against each other, children lose

So this is a matter that should not only concern me, but also my peers and anyone who has children in our school system. While there are positives to this option, it does very much deplete public schools’ funding.

That was a public school, being funded by public dollars, telling people they don’t get to know how their tax dollars were spent.

Betsy Devos’ reforms will reduce these barriers and create a more level playing field in the education market.

The problem is that based on her record of blitzing education in MI and funding the charter and school choice movements wherever she and her network of wealthy donors felt like, DeVos has a track record of more than 20 years of erasing the “public” in public education wherever she goes. This causes enormous segregation of class within a community because naturally, the wealthier communities will have more money to fund and improve charter schools. She’s been accused of being too rich and privileged to comprehend public education and mocked for being concerned about the threat of grizzly bears on school grounds. The last time I checked, school’s objective is to get students to college.

Brock said much of his unease came from DeVos’ lack of knowledge on what he called basic concepts in special education during the confirmation hearings, including her unfamiliarity with IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, a federal law.

DeVos inherits a department that has over $170 billion in its budget, which includes $17 billion that is invested into California. This and other unanswered or ridiculously-answered questions effectively undermined her authority among not only educators, future co-workers and anti-voucher democrats, but even among republicans who initially supported her.

I talked to the director of the financial aid department at Cal Poly Pomona, Diana Y. Minor. She stepped down past year.

In New Orleans, voucher students who struggle academically haven’t advanced to grade-level work any faster over the past two years than students in the public schools, many of which are rated D or F, state data show.

“If that’s a population they want to serve, then they need to design a system that is better for [those] students”, said Andrew McEachin, of RAND Corporation, an author of the new report.

DeVos responded to the tweet storm by calling the teachers “awesome“, and reiterating what she’s going to be fighting for on the job – a decrease in government influence. But at the end of her visit – her first to a public school since taking office – she stood on Jefferson’s front steps and pronounced it “awesome”. “Which is near and dear to my heart”, said Minor. Almost 6,500,000, or 13 percent of students, were identified as having special needs.

Lastly, even while worrying about my fellow students’ fiscal problems, there is something else to consider. But in the grand scheme of things, DeVos is probably the least of our worries.

Under the Obama administration, Title IX rules, which prohibit discrimination based on sex, were interpreted to include gender identity. We know from our local shops and industries that companies enter and leave markets when it suits their bottom line. Don’t be the person who gets caught off-guard with bad news, be the person who is on the front lines trying to make a difference. However, according to University of California, Santa Barbara political science professor Lorraine McDonnell, the possibility of this system to be a nationwide standard seems very unlikely.