On 01/19/2017 06:29 PM, Alan Baker wrote:
> ...for the job of Secretary of Education?
>
> Wow me.
She has a lot of money. Otherwise she is laughably unqualified.
https://goo.gl/4squwq
"We write today as professors of education, to urge you to join us in
voicing opposition to the nomination of Betsy DeVos to U.S. secretary of
education.
DeVos is unqualified. Understanding the daily struggles within our schools
and how to assuage them requires careful study of education and experience
in schools. DeVos has no relevant credentials in education, no formal
training or experience in teaching, and no advanced knowledge of
educational research.
DeVos puts forward an agenda that jeopardizes the future of democratically
run public education. She supports the privatization of schooling through
expanding for-profit charter schools and vouchers to private schools. Her
efforts in Michigan have led 80 percent of charter schools to be
for-profit. DeVos views schools as a place to make money and children as a
source of profit.
DeVos supports policies that have consistently failed. The particular
forms of school choice that she advocates have consistently failed
children, including voucher students who have been outperformed by
traditional public school students. In addition to worrisome low academic
performance, many of the sorts of charter schools she has backed have
engaged in discriminatory practices. These charter schools cause de facto
segregation, cherry-pick top students, and push out those who struggle or
have costly attributes such as disabilities or being English language
learners."