Mark Maynard | school vouchers

Republicans introduce bill to replace 1965 legislation that guarantees free and equitable public education for all with a national voucher program intended to kill public education as we know it

By Mark | February 21, 2017

On January 23rd of this year, two weeks before billionaire turned anti-public education crusader Betsy DeVos was sworn in as Secretary of Education, Congressman Steve King of Iowa introduced HR 610, a bill which, if passed into law, would replace Lyndon Johnson’s landmark 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) with something that King and […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Education, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Bible, call to action, charter schools, dismantling of public education, Education and Workforce Committee, equality, equity, ESEA, Free Appropriate Public Education, homelessness, homeschool, HR 610, IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Iowa, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Mike Bishop, Minneapolis Start Tribune, National School Lunch Program, Network for Public Education, Nevada, nutrition, pledge allegiance, poverty, private school, privatization, racism, religious extremism, School Choice Act, School Lunch Initiative, school lunches, Steve King, Tim Walberg, war on poverty | 17 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.”

By Mark | February 15, 2017

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, Department of Education, dismantling of public education, education reform, Elsa Prince Broekhuizen, God in school, manifestos, public education, religion in schools, religious extremism, Richard DeVos Sr., Secretary of Education, separation of church and state, sex education, Steve Bannon, Ten Commandments, threats to public education | 5 Comments

Under DeVos, what’s to stop our tax dollars from being spent teaching children that dinosaurs coexisted with people?

By Mark | February 13, 2017

Remember a few years ago when this seemingly fake forth grade quiz about human beings coexisting with dinosaurs was making the rounds? Well, it just landed on my desk again, and this time, because I desperately needed a break from watching Trump handshaking videos, I decided to do a little investigating. Well, it turns out […]

Posted in Education, Uncategorized | Also tagged Answers in Genesis, anti-science, Association of Christian Schools International, Betsy DeVos, Blue Ridge Christian Academy, charter schools, creationism, Creationism Museum, dinosaurs, dismantling of public education, domesticated dinosaurs, Donald Trump, Flintstones, fourth grade, Ken Ham, Kentucky, shaking hands, South Carolina, velociraptors, Young Earth Creationism | 25 Comments

We’re just one Republican vote away from stopping Betsy DeVos from taking over the Department of Education

By Mark | February 1, 2017

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, education reform, Jeff Flake, Jerry Moran, Kansas, Lisa Murkowski, Nevada, Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania, public education, Shelley Moore, Susan Collins of Maine, threats to public education, West Virginia | 16 Comments

We should have stopped Betsy DeVos when we had the chance

By Mark | November 27, 2016

On behalf of the people of Michigan, I apologize… Not only were we one of three states credited with making Donald Trump, the least qualified presidential candidate in American history, our President-elect, but, as it turns out, we might also be responsible for ending public education as we know it. You see, we, the people […]

Posted in Church and State, Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Detroit, Education, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged Acton Institute, Amway, Betsy DeVos, child labor, dismantling of public education, Donald Trump, education reform, HB 4052, Lily Eskelsen García, literacy, Michelle Rhee, minimum wage, MLM, multi-level marketing, National Education Association, NEA, Newt Gingrich, opportunity gap, privatization, public education, pyramid schemes, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, right-to-work, schools of choice, Secretary of Education, The Act to Enhance Access to the Workplace for Minors, threats to public education, virtual charters | 102 Comments

Tag Archives: school vouchers

Republicans introduce bill to replace 1965 legislation that guarantees free and equitable public education for all with a national voucher program intended to kill public education as we know it

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.”

Under DeVos, what’s to stop our tax dollars from being spent teaching children that dinosaurs coexisted with people?

We’re just one Republican vote away from stopping Betsy DeVos from taking over the Department of Education

We should have stopped Betsy DeVos when we had the chance

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