[quote]WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump moved swiftly to diversify his cabinet on Wednesday, recruiting Betsy DeVos, a prominent Republican philanthropist and educational activist, as education secretary, and nearing an announcement of Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who ran an outsider’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, as secretary of housing and urban development.
A major Republican fund-raiser from Michigan, Ms. DeVos, 58, is a passionate believer in school choice, a subject that she and Mr. Trump discussed last week when she met him at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. She is a member by marriage of the DeVos family, the founders of Amway and one of the largest contributors to the Michigan Republican Party.
“The status quo in education is not acceptable,” Ms. DeVos said in a statement. “Together, we can work to make transformational change that ensures every student in America has the opportunity to fulfill his or her highest potential.”[/quote]
[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/donald-trump-president-elect.html]Source[/url]
She's against common core, which is pretty alright.
Isn't 'school choice' a Republican code for "only rich kids who can afford private schools get a decent education"?
I'm not familiar with Devos, but this [B]has[/B] to be better than Jerry Falwell, if only because it's hard to get worse.
I'd be interested to learn more about her policy, at least. She's not pushing for unifying religious education as public curriculum, is she? What of her stances on funding and standardized tests as they pertain to public education? Seeing another No Child Left Behind Act would be fairly effin' tragic, and seeing a steep reduction in public education funds would be indefensible.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;51417770]I'm not terribly familiar with Devos, but this [B]has[/B] to be better than Jerry Falwell.
I'd be interested to learn more about her policy, at least. She's not pushing for unifying religious education as public curriculum, is she? What of her stances on funding and standardized tests? Seeing another No Child Left Behind Act would be fairly effin' tragic.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://betsydevos.com/qa/[/url]
[quote]I am very excited to get to work and to talk about my thoughts and ideas on making American education great again. The status quo is not acceptable. I am committed to transforming our education system into the best in the world. However, out of respect to the United States Senate, it is most appropriate for me to defer expounding on specifics until they begin their confirmation process.[/quote]
She is hated in michigan and is like the female version of the koch brothers. Says she is against common core when she has been for it in the past.
[QUOTE=ZachPL;51417785]She is hated in michigan and is like the female version of the koch brothers. Says she is against common core when she has been for it in the past.[/QUOTE]
It's almost like people change their opinions on things.
Chances are she's just going to hand education over to Pearson
[QUOTE=Water-Marine;51417786]It's almost like people change their opinions on things.[/QUOTE]
Yeah people of power will say whatever it takes to get more power. That's not changing opinion that is just a powerplay.
Charter schools are terrible, it basically turns school in to for profit education, which anyone with a brain knows its terrible for the students they are trying to educate.
She's pretty hardcore about voucher programs and charter schools
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/for-detroits-children-more-school-choice-but-not-better-schools.html[/url]
[QUOTE]While the idea was to foster academic competition, the unchecked growth of charters has created a glut of schools competing for some of the nation’s poorest students, enticing them to enroll with cash bonuses, laptops, raffle tickets for iPads and bicycles. Leaders of charter and traditional schools alike say they are being cannibalized, fighting so hard over students and the limited public dollars that follow them that no one thrives.
Detroit now has a bigger share of students in charters than any American city except New Orleans, which turned almost all its schools into charters after Hurricane Katrina. But half the charters perform only as well, or worse than, Detroit’s traditional public schools.
“The point was to raise all schools,” said Scott Romney, a lawyer and board member of New Detroit, a civic group formed after the 1967 race riots here. “Instead, we’ve had a total and complete collapse of education in this city.”[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=ZachPL;51417801]Yeah people of power will say whatever it takes to get more power. That's not changing opinion that is just a powerplay.
Charter schools are terrible, it basically turns school in to for profit education, which anyone with a brain knows its terrible for the students they are trying to educate.[/QUOTE]
Charter schools are not all terrible. They're for sure more variable than public schools, but for every shitty charter school there's usually a school that's absolutely exceptional when compared to public schools. There's not really a consensus on whether charter schools are beneficial or harmful, and initially the push for charter schools came from the Democrats. Bill Clinton was an advocate for them, as is [URL="http://www.npr.org/2015/09/21/442183080/assessing-the-100-million-upheaval-of-newarks-public-schools"]Corey Booker[/URL].
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