Trump’s Education Pick As Bad As It Gets — AFT

However, if this proposed school voucher plan is put into place, it will be taking huge amounts of money from school districts and putting it into the hands of low-income families so their children may attend for-profit, private, virtual and religious schools easily.

Politico points out that one of DeVos’ top advisors, Greg McNeilly, is gay, and that perhaps that could indicate her personal politics are not as anti-LGBTQ as her other affiliations and her family’s record up to this point would suggest. In 2010, they opened their own charter high school, the West Michigan Aviation Academy, which is located on the grounds of the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids. With an expanded role for school vouchers, less funds will be directed towards those schools.

We have no problem with private schools, but taxpayers shouldn’t subsidize a tuition payment. In fact, the majority of charter schools score below the national average. Many students can not reading at grade level. However, if he wants someone to lead the department, who supports further privatizing public schools, then he should have picked someone who has even the slightest knowledge of the field of education.

Charter schools can not require students to pay tuition for their education.

Noel Candelaria is president of the Texas State Teachers Association and a former special education teacher in the Ysleta Independent School District in El Paso. The potential for a racially divisive campaign, complete with the typical kinds of irresponsible rhetoric that often come from both sides, is my chief concern.

DeVos has served as leader of the National Federation for Children, and also serves on the board of the group started by Jeb Bush, the Foundation for Excellence in Education. In attempting to achieve that goal, however, they essentially provide government support for the erosion of public school funding. The committee is chaired by businessman and school choice advocate Fred Klipsch.

Opponents of the broader choice DeVos favors have illustrated flaws in the MI model to make the case for the public school system and its regulatory oversight.

Harris’ Education Research Alliance recently found that school closures and takeovers in New Orleans and Baton Rouge were beneficial to students when they ended up in better schools.

But it’s disingenuous for charter critics to focus exclusively on failed schools like the ones in MI, when they know that other charters have registered enormous successes. In the early 2000s, the foundation gave money to the Thomas More Law Center, the group that defended the school trying to teach intelligent design in the Dover case, according to the AP. They say that charter schools have exacerbated segregation, increasing racial barriers. Does she funnel money away from public schools towards private options like Christian-based and for-profit education?

Some labor and union organizers disagree about whether charter schools are actually public schools. I teach at another school in Reynolds’s district, West Forsyth High School, and am proud to report that Reynolds still holds an incredible reputation as a historically effective institution and I know numerous fantastic teachers who work there. “Trump had proposed changing student loan repayment plans, and the next education secretary could also oversee a rewriting of the Higher Education Act, the law governing federal student loan and grant programs that is periodically renewed”. Whether current state tests are the best way to measure success is a subject of debate.

Valant goes on to explain that charter schools are not all the same.

As chairwoman of the American Federation for Children, she has overseen political contributions to expand private school vouchers, education tax credits and charter schools access in her home state and other parts around the country.

The Douglas County School District has appealed the state Supreme Court’s decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Forget the school privatizers’ misleading catch phrase, that school choice is “the civil rights issue of our time”.

In recent years there has been a softening of opposition among non-Orthodox groups to government-funding ideas for parochial schools, as the cost of day schooling has soared and its benefits in building Jewish identity are seen as incalculable. Public education is not a competition. “That evidence just isn’t there”, Valant says.

You’re an enemy of poor American children!

Michael Hansen is an education expert at the Brookings Institution.

“Americans are always free to send their children to private schools and religious schools, but raiding the public treasury to subsidize private businesses and religious organizations runs against the public trust and the Constitution”, Moline said.

“I think that support” he adds, “has been important in the sustained development of what is a pretty fundamental restructuring of the way that schools are governed”.

She wrote at the time, “I have learned that not every story has two sides”.