@rk9152 wrote:
@gordyfl wrote:
I really haven't followed stories about Betsy DeVos. I just hear she favors privatizing public schools.
I do know Omarosa said in her book that Betsy DeVos should resign and that she's unqualified for that position.
Trump also has a nickname for her -- "Ditzy DeVos" according to Omarosa.
She lost the recent court case. Sounds like she really is inept.
Not "privatizing" but rather providing alternatives for kids in failing schools. This is opposed by the teachers' unions hence it is opposed by the Dems hence (to the left) she is a "crook".
Public schools that are performing below expectations are doing so because of 30 years of REpublicans cutting their budgets and attacking teachers with such vitrol and spite many of the best have been driven out ofthe profession.
Their solution is to transfer money from the public schools to for-profit's that are the k-12 equivalent of Trump Univ - that is, they deliver nothing but lies.
These for-profits pay their teachers half what a qualified teacher would cost, but since Republicans wrote the "regulations" on how they operate, there is no requirement for the for-profit teachers to have any teaching or other academic credentials whatsoever.
While the ones delivering the inadequate education are paid a pitance, the ones running the for-profits are getting seriously rich very quickly and the whole process is just another example of how Republicans redistribute wealth and income from the middle to the rvery top.
Those are MIDDLE CLASS tax dollars flowing into the coffers of the newly rich for-profit owners, and the students will never be able to earn back what their parents had taken from them through the transfer of their tax dollars and the quality of their non-educational experience.
