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Hey Buddy, this is like you being confirmed by the Senate to head the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
i like her :shrug:
When every democrat is against her then I know for a fact she is the best fit for the job
When every democrat is against her then I know for a fact she is the best fit for the job
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She's never attended, taught at, sent her children to, or ran a public school. Now she's in charge of the entire system. Her highest level of education is a BA. I think you need a Masters degree to be a principal in most states. But, hey, who cares. The Dems don't like her so she must be perfect for the job......awesome logic.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017...-devos-will-be-great-education-secretary.html
DeVos opposition now claiming she'll ruin public schools
The major charge against Betsy DeVos?and certainly the one that the writers at "Saturday Night Live" recently ran with?was that she doesn?t know enough about ?school? to be Secretary of Education. She hasn?t been a teacher, a principal, or a superintendent. She doesn?t know how to pick a curriculum, evaluate an instructor, or write an Individual Education Plan for students with disabilities.
All true. And if she were seeking employment as a teacher, a principal, or a superintendent, that experience gap would be damning. But she?s not.
President Trump selected her to be the U.S. Secretary of Education. That person?s job is to do education politics and policy?to work with members of Congress and governors, to understand how a bill becomes a law, to provide moral support to reformers as they fight it out in the states and at the local level. With her decades of involvement in politics, with policy makers and in the trenches of the parental choice movement, DeVos is an inspired choice for the job that the Senate confirmed her for today.
Which isn?t to say the millions of teachers and parents who flooded social media and the Congressional switchboard to urge her rejection had nothing to worry about. Especially during the Bush 43 and Obama years, the Secretary of Education has occupied a powerful role, one that has sought to influence almost every nook and cranny of education policy and practice.
Particularly under Obama?s education secretaries, the feds did indeed stick their noses into curriculum, teacher evaluation, and the intricacies of serving students with disabilities, as well as who can use which restroom. Anyone assuming that the future would be a linear extension of that past might have reason to fret about DeVos.
Well, the big change that?s coming isn?t the change of individuals. It?s the change in the Education Department?s role. It?s not that DeVos and her team will play the Obama-era melody in a different key. It?s that they won?t being playing those tunes at all.
During her confirmation process, DeVos promised time and again to shrink Uncle Sam?s impact on the nation?s schools?to devolve decisions back to states, communities, educators and parents. That?s in keeping with the mandate from Congress, which just over a year ago updated the major K-12 law to expressly limit the federal role in education.
The grassroots energy around the DeVos confirmation fight demonstrates that Americans care deeply about their schools. That?s good news. The even better news is that parents and teachers can now focus that energy on changing policies closer to home, where the action is, rather than in Washington, D.C. And the U.S. Department of Education can go back to being the sleepy agency it was always meant to be.
Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and research fellow at Stanford University?s Hoover Institution. He served in the George W. Bush Administration in the U.S. Department of Education from 2001-2005.
DeVos opposition now claiming she'll ruin public schools
The major charge against Betsy DeVos?and certainly the one that the writers at "Saturday Night Live" recently ran with?was that she doesn?t know enough about ?school? to be Secretary of Education. She hasn?t been a teacher, a principal, or a superintendent. She doesn?t know how to pick a curriculum, evaluate an instructor, or write an Individual Education Plan for students with disabilities.
All true. And if she were seeking employment as a teacher, a principal, or a superintendent, that experience gap would be damning. But she?s not.
President Trump selected her to be the U.S. Secretary of Education. That person?s job is to do education politics and policy?to work with members of Congress and governors, to understand how a bill becomes a law, to provide moral support to reformers as they fight it out in the states and at the local level. With her decades of involvement in politics, with policy makers and in the trenches of the parental choice movement, DeVos is an inspired choice for the job that the Senate confirmed her for today.
Which isn?t to say the millions of teachers and parents who flooded social media and the Congressional switchboard to urge her rejection had nothing to worry about. Especially during the Bush 43 and Obama years, the Secretary of Education has occupied a powerful role, one that has sought to influence almost every nook and cranny of education policy and practice.
Particularly under Obama?s education secretaries, the feds did indeed stick their noses into curriculum, teacher evaluation, and the intricacies of serving students with disabilities, as well as who can use which restroom. Anyone assuming that the future would be a linear extension of that past might have reason to fret about DeVos.
Well, the big change that?s coming isn?t the change of individuals. It?s the change in the Education Department?s role. It?s not that DeVos and her team will play the Obama-era melody in a different key. It?s that they won?t being playing those tunes at all.
During her confirmation process, DeVos promised time and again to shrink Uncle Sam?s impact on the nation?s schools?to devolve decisions back to states, communities, educators and parents. That?s in keeping with the mandate from Congress, which just over a year ago updated the major K-12 law to expressly limit the federal role in education.
The grassroots energy around the DeVos confirmation fight demonstrates that Americans care deeply about their schools. That?s good news. The even better news is that parents and teachers can now focus that energy on changing policies closer to home, where the action is, rather than in Washington, D.C. And the U.S. Department of Education can go back to being the sleepy agency it was always meant to be.
Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and research fellow at Stanford University?s Hoover Institution. He served in the George W. Bush Administration in the U.S. Department of Education from 2001-2005.
How does this even affect you in any way whatsoever and why do you care at all, you don't even have kids? :mj07:
It has to suck not being able to think for yourself.
You have children and know nothing of her, brilliance.
I have nieces and nephews in public schools.
I want smart, qualified people running our country.
My tax dollars go to public schools.
Soon your tax dollars will go to private, for-profit schools which will have zero accountability standards.
So do I, give this woman a chance...couldn't be worse than the previous regime
Private schools are going to ruin our children's education. Not a phrase I have heard uttered before.
Charter schools, school choice, vouchers, all that might end up causing some problems, but at least for kids in shitty school districts I think it's worth trying something radically different than things that haven't been working since the Department of Education came into existence 40 years ago.
Devos is a poor choice politically, but I think some of some of the ideas she supports could be worth a shot.
