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. […]
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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.”
Posted in Education, Uncategorized Also tagged Bible, charter schools, Common Core, Council for National Policy, Department of Education, dismantling of public education, 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
We’re just one Republican vote away from stopping Betsy DeVos from taking over the Department of Education
Today, Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska announced on the floor of the Senate that they would not be voting to confirm President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Assuming neither Senator changes her mind between now and the vote, which is expected to happen as early as […]
Posted in Education, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Betsy DeVos, Dan Sullivan, Dean Heller, Deb Fischer, dismantling of public education, Jeff Flake, Jerry Moran, Kansas, Lisa Murkowski, Nevada, Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania, public education, school vouchers, Shelley Moore, Susan Collins of Maine, threats to public education, West Virginia 16 Comments
The fight over the future of public education in America moves to the full Senate, as Betsy DeVos’s nomination for Secretary of Education passes out of committee
The above photo was taken by my friend Al Hoff today outside an elementary school in Pittsburg. While I imagine it’s possible that someone could have hung the flag upside down by mistake, I suspect it probably has something to do with what’s happening right now in Washington relative to public education. [The upside down […]
Posted in A2Awesome, Education, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Al Hoff, Alaska, Anchorage, Betsy DeVos, Cabinet, charter schools, confirmation hearings, Dick DeVos, dismantling of public education, for-profit charter schools, Lisa Murkowski, Maine, PTA, public education, religious fundamentalism, religious intolerance, Secretary of Education, Senate, Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions, Susan Collins, threats to public education, virtual charters 22 Comments