Citing the good work she’d done in Michigan, the Detroit News endorsed Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education this past January. The Amway heiress, they told us, based on what she’d accomplished here in Michigan, was a “sound choice” – someone who would “strive to improve education for all kids.” The “hysteria” over DeVos, they […]
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Michigan, the state where Betsy DeVos has fought the past several decades to deregulate the charter industry and weaken public education, finishes dead last of all 50 states when it comes to student proficiency improvement
Posted in Education, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged accountability, Betsy DeVos, Brian A. Jacob, Brookings Institution, charter schools, deregulation, Detroit News, dismantling of public education, Donald Trump, for-profit charter schools, NAEP, National Assessment of Education Progress, political endorsements, proficiency, public education, Rick Snyder, Secretary of Education, threats to public education 5 Comments
Influential conservative group with ties to the Trump administration and Betsy DeVos calls for the “gradual, voluntary return at all levels to free-market private schools, church schools and home schools as the normative American practice.”
I’ve yet to see a copy of the five-page document, but it’s being reported that the Council for National Policy, a group the New York Time calls “a little-known club of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country,” has started circulating a policy paper on education reform in the United States. […]
Posted in Education, Uncategorized Also tagged Bible, charter schools, Common Core, Council for National Policy, dismantling of public education, education reform, Elsa Prince Broekhuizen, God in school, manifestos, public education, religion in schools, religious extremism, Richard DeVos Sr., school vouchers, Secretary of Education, separation of church and state, sex education, Steve Bannon, Ten Commandments, threats to public education 5 Comments