Murray: “I take that as not being able to commit to not privatizing schools or not cutting money for education”. I’ve had people connected to the public education tweet at me or respond to me that charter schools aren’t truly “public” because they lack the accountability of open school board meetings. Teachers said she supports the “racist policies and economic starvation our schools and public services have already endured” under the leadership of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool.
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“She said, ‘Well wait a minute”. “And they know other options exist, whether magnet, virtual, charter, home, faith-based or any other combination”. I look forward, if confirmed, to working with you to talk about how we address the needs of all parents and all students. “All of them. That’s the way it works in a competitive system”, he wrote in “The America We Deserve”, which was published in 2000. “We want it to include all children”. “Best we can figure it was an error on behalf of the foundation staff and was never run by her”. “I don’t think with guns in schools that one school fits every state or every school district”.
“She has very close friends and advisors who happen to be gay, and she attended their weddings”, Prescott said.
The CNN host brought up the Sandy Hook school shootings from 2012 as she posed: “I don’t know, when she said that, if she was thinking about where you’re from, Sandy Hook, took place in your state, Senator”. In Tuesday’s hearings, DeVos said she had not used those words. “Betsy DeVos I’m anxious about because she just seems anti-public school”, said Jesse Sharkey, CTU vice president. Now when you get around to checking this one out, your eye is more likely to be caught by the finer details (and not just that Confederate flag bikini).
“The Democrats are unhappy about losing the election, and they had spent a lot of time on what I would call “gotcha” questions”, Alexander said.
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. “I am looking forward to seeing the next transition of power as Donald Trump is sworn in as our president on Friday”.
She dodged the question by referring to a previous comment by Sen.
According to Stanford University researchers, more than half of charter schools in Detroit outperform public schools, and less than ten percent under-perform. We can not allow her to use her new cabinet position to destroy public school districts across the country. Senator Maggie Hassan, a democrat from New Hampshire, asked twice about it. This is important for any basic understanding of education since “it [literally] affects how schools are labeled as succeeding or failing”. Video of the exchange, in which DeVos wouldn’t directly answer some questions, generated attention online. In a press release, the CTA says it will work together to protect each other, its students, schools, and community.
Dromm added that any such initiatives would cut dollars to public schools already in financial distress.
If Trump ends up confirming DeVos, the concepts will likely stick around for much of the new president’s term (s).
DEVOS: No, I would hope I could convince you all of the merit of that in maybe some future legislation, but certainly not any kind of mandate from within the department.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education also credited DeVos for providing some of her clearest answers in response to Republican Sen. But some pieces of information are still missing, because the Office of Government Ethics has not completed DeVos’s ethics agreement.
