Betsy DeVos Has Cut 600 Staff Positions in Dept of Education

[Dragonlady]

No surprise.........she's a charter school zealot who wants to destroy the public schools.

You need people from DC to run your local school?

Are you really that stupid?

Gratuitous insults meant to divert attention away from DeVos' agenda to expand the reach of charter schools is noted. The primary functions of the Dept. of Ed are to establish policy for, administer and coordinate most federal assistance to education, collect data on US schools, and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights. Ignorance gets you nowhere with me.

How dare blacks get a chance to go to a white school.

If only that were the case. When public schools close, poor kids disappear from the school system because their parents can’t afford the shortfall between the voucher and the tuition.

Added to which, charter schools cherry pick the bright kids so their test scores don’t suffer. They get rid of the kids with any sorts of problems or learning disabilities, too.

But Republicans want the public school system destroyed and charter schools will make that happen.

Just look at what happened in New Orleans after Katrina. They’ve abandoned their Charter School experiment. It was too expensive and produced poor results.

 

[Dragonlady]

No surprise.........she's a charter school zealot who wants to destroy the public schools.

You need people from DC to run your local school?

Are you really that stupid?

Gratuitous insults meant to divert attention away from DeVos' agenda to expand the reach of charter schools is noted. The primary functions of the Dept. of Ed are to establish policy for, administer and coordinate most federal assistance to education, collect data on US schools, and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights. Ignorance gets you nowhere with me.

I support her agenda 100%. None of the functions you listed are necessary. Get rid of the DOE.

Of course you do. You support all the stupid ideas.

 

[Dragonlady]

No surprise.........she's a charter school zealot who wants to destroy the public schools.

You need people from DC to run your local school?

Are you really that stupid?

DeVos, DOJ Slam Campuses Behaving As "Mini Police States"

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"Repressive speech codes are the indecent hallmark of despotic, totalitarian regimes. They have absolutely no place in our country..."

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education filed a lawsuit against Jones College after the school threatened to arrest student members of Young Americans for Liberty for their efforts to initiate a conversation about marijuana legalization on campus. The campus police stopped the YAL members from tabling to raise awareness about this issue. FIRE sued the school on behalf of YAL and student Michael Brown.

The Department of Justice is weighing in on the matter, releasing a statement insisting that “College campuses should not be mini police states.”

“The United States of America is not a police state,” said assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division Eric Dreiband, adding “Repressive speech codes are the indecent hallmark of despotic, totalitarian regimes. They have absolutely no place in our country."​

Finally!

US secretary of education Betsy DeVos also weighed in on the free speech of students at Jones County Junior College saying that the situation is “yet another concerning example of students encountering limits on what, when, where, and how they learn.”

“This is happening far too often on our nation’s campuses. This Administration won’t let students be silenced. We stand with their right to speak and with their right to learn truth through the free exchange of ideas—particularly those with which they might disagree,” DeVos added.​

Another link to ZeroHedge - a Bulgarian conspiracy theory website.

Zero Hedge - Media Bias/Fact Check

 

[Winco]

No surprise.........she's a charter school zealot who wants to destroy the public schools.

I view Charter schools as a viable alternative and competition for public schools.

Sure, when they are run without FRAUD.

No surprise.........she's a charter school zealot who wants to destroy the public schools.

Destroying the Dept of Education doesn't equate to destroying the public schools, moron.

What's your problem with charter schools? Are you afraid kids might actually get an education?

Private Schools are usually well run and provide an alternative to Public Education.
Charter schools are usually based on misconception and FRAUD.

Report: The Department Of Education Has Spent $1 Billion On Charter School Waste And Fraud

 

[bripat9643]

No surprise.........she's a charter school zealot who wants to destroy the public schools.

You need people from DC to run your local school?

Are you really that stupid?

Gratuitous insults meant to divert attention away from DeVos' agenda to expand the reach of charter schools is noted. The primary functions of the Dept. of Ed are to establish policy for, administer and coordinate most federal assistance to education, collect data on US schools, and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights. Ignorance gets you nowhere with me.

I support her agenda 100%. None of the functions you listed are necessary. Get rid of the DOE.

Those functions were necessary when the federal government created the Education Department. What has changed?

No they weren't necessary. They weren't necessary before the DOE was created, so what made them necessary afterwards, expect to provide jobs to for useless bureaucrats?

 

[bripat9643]

No surprise.........she's a charter school zealot who wants to destroy the public schools.

You need people from DC to run your local school?

Are you really that stupid?

Gratuitous insults meant to divert attention away from DeVos' agenda to expand the reach of charter schools is noted. The primary functions of the Dept. of Ed are to establish policy for, administer and coordinate most federal assistance to education, collect data on US schools, and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights. Ignorance gets you nowhere with me.

I support her agenda 100%. None of the functions you listed are necessary. Get rid of the DOE.

Of course you do. You support all the stupid ideas.

Which "stupid ideas" are those?

 

[Winco]

Which "stupid ideas" are those?

Please respond to the #24 post.

Report: The Department Of Education Has Spent $1 Billion On Charter School Waste And Fraud

Report

 

[JoeB131]

You need people from DC to run your local school?

Are you really that stupid?

Most civilized countries have centralized education standards.

Yeah.

Letting parents choose to kill their children is super cool but letting them choose their children's schools is crazy talk.

It kind of is. The problem is, vouchers don't work. Charter schools don't work. They just drain resources from the public schools that could be better spent.

What's your problem with charter schools? Are you afraid kids might actually get an education?

Afraid we might waste money instead of fixing the real problems.

Department Of Education Wasted $1 Billion On Failed Charter Schools - The National Memo

A new report issued by the Network for Public Education provides a detailed accounting of how charter schools have scammed the U.S. Department of Education’s Charter Schools Program (CSP) for up to $1 billion in wasted grant money that went to charters that never opened or opened for only brief periods of time before being shut down for mismanagement, poor performance, lack of enrollment, or fraud. The report also found many of the charters receiving grant awards that managed to stay open fall far short of the grant program’s avowed mission to create “high-quality” schools for disadvantaged students.

Of the schools awarded grants directly from the department between 2009 and 2016, nearly one in four either never opened or shut their doors. The federal program’s own analysis from 2006 to 2014 of its direct and state pass-through funded programs found that nearly one out of three awardees were not currently in operation by the end of 2015.

Here's the mistake you guys make with private schools and vouchers. You think that when they get better results, it's because they are free of 'bureaucracy". No. The reason some of them get better results is because their parents are paying their own money, so they are more committed.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

SCHOOL CHOICE!!! Now!

My body, my choice!*


*except when it comes to deciding where to educate your child

 

[JoeB131]

My body, my choice!*


*except when it comes to deciding where to educate your child

We have private schools, if you can afford them.
You can pick where you live based on the schools.
You can even home school your spawn if you don't mind his completely lacking socialization skills.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

BTW, Queen Hillary would have outlawed charter schools and home schooling. Her 5 anti American SCOTUS jihadists would have backed her too

 

[JoeB131]

BTW, Queen Hillary would have outlawed charter schools and home schooling. Her 5 anti American SCOTUS jihadists would have backed her too

Awesome. Charter schools are a scam and Home Schooling just gives us a bunch of mal-adjusted people who can't interact. These would be good things.

you know what would be better? If the kids of the rich had to go to the same schools as kids of the poor.

 

[JLW]

Trumpers have been attacking education and teachers for the past 3 years and test scores are diving. This is no surprise. To the Trumper ignorance is strength.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Trumpers have been attacking education and teachers for the past 3 years and test scores are diving. This is no surprise. To the Trumper ignorance is strength.

It's the same fucking Stalinist democrat educational system, Trump has made no structural changes- yet

 

[Jitss617]

May god protect Betsy! Democrats will do some sick shit to retain control over education

 

[Anathema]

The primary functions of the Dept. of Ed are to establish policy for, administer and coordinate most federal assistance to education, collect data on US schools, and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights. Ignorance gets you nowhere with me.

Absolutely NONE of which is a valid mandate or power of the Federal Government under Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution and the Tenth Amendment. .

 

[ColonelAngus]

That’s a good start! Now let’s eliminate the entire DOE and the IRS.

We need to cut about $2 trillion from the budget immediately.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Tomorrow’s headlines: Trump administration destroys Christmas for hundreds of families.

I’m hoping in his second term Trump eliminates the Department altogether.

Betsy DeVos has cut 600 staff positions at the Department of Education.

“I have long advocated for the notion that it would be great to work myself out of a job,” she said.

Good start, only 3700 to go

 

[Weatherman2020]

No surprise.........she's a charter school zealot who wants to destroy the public schools.

You need people from DC to run your local school?

Are you really that stupid?

DeVos, DOJ Slam Campuses Behaving As "Mini Police States"

​

"Repressive speech codes are the indecent hallmark of despotic, totalitarian regimes. They have absolutely no place in our country..."

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education filed a lawsuit against Jones College after the school threatened to arrest student members of Young Americans for Liberty for their efforts to initiate a conversation about marijuana legalization on campus. The campus police stopped the YAL members from tabling to raise awareness about this issue. FIRE sued the school on behalf of YAL and student Michael Brown.

The Department of Justice is weighing in on the matter, releasing a statement insisting that “College campuses should not be mini police states.”

“The United States of America is not a police state,” said assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division Eric Dreiband, adding “Repressive speech codes are the indecent hallmark of despotic, totalitarian regimes. They have absolutely no place in our country."​

Finally!

US secretary of education Betsy DeVos also weighed in on the free speech of students at Jones County Junior College saying that the situation is “yet another concerning example of students encountering limits on what, when, where, and how they learn.”

“This is happening far too often on our nation’s campuses. This Administration won’t let students be silenced. We stand with their right to speak and with their right to learn truth through the free exchange of ideas—particularly those with which they might disagree,” DeVos added.​

Another link to ZeroHedge - a Bulgarian conspiracy theory website.

Zero Hedge - Media Bias/Fact Check

Using a biased leftist website to ‘fact’ check?
Hilarious.

 

[Weatherman2020]

That’s a good start! Now let’s eliminate the entire DOE and the IRS.

We need to cut about $2 trillion from the budget immediately.

No, Trump can use the IRS to crush his political opposition.