Biden's Education Department Will Move Fast to Reverse Betsy DeVos's Policies

[Norbert]

WASHINGTON — Like most federal agencies, the Education Department followed President Trump’s lead in seeking to undo the legacy of his predecessor, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos diligently tore into President Barack Obama’s policies.

President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr’s administration is planning to return the favor.

The contrasts in Trump-era education policy and the incoming Biden administration’s agenda are stark. Ms. DeVos, a lifelong booster of private schools and longtime opponent of the teachers’ unions, set out to reduce the Education Department’s footprint by proposing cuts to public school funding and narrowing the department’s enforcement role of federal education laws and civil rights.

The incoming first lady, Jill Biden, is a community college professor and member of the National Education Association. The Biden administration has promised to drastically increase resources for public schools, expand its civil rights advocacy for marginalized students and reassert the department’s leadership in policymaking.

And on the most pressing issue facing education, reopening schools during the pandemic, the Biden administration has signaled an about-face...

Bye bye Betsy.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bidens-education-department-will-move-fast-to-reverse-betsy-devoss-policies/ar-BB1aYDal?ocid=ientp

[2naSalit]

1. Can't happen too soon.

Just think of all the jobs restoring the education system will create.

[Native]

2. This is just 1 of 1,001 reasons we need control of the Senate!

[TruckFump]

3. Cruella de Vos cannot leave soon enough for me!

What she did was appalling.

[OldBaldy1701E]

36. My concern was how

a part of the education community was.... well, I guess complicit may be too strong of a word, but you get what I am saying. That is horrifying to someone who spent almost a decade working at a school. I understand that we have flaws in our education system and I always tried to help find alternatives, but the fact that some people agreed with Cruella is just really sad.

[True Blue American]

4. The next time

Anyone praises John Kasich for being so reasonable and nice keep in mind his first action was trying to kill Teachers. Or Public Unions. We fought with 13 million signatures delivered by hand to Columbus forcing him to put in on the ballot. We beat him badly, so he spent the rest of his time as Governor cutting the Education budget to feed his friends crooked Charter Schools. Left behind a 28 million online school scandal. Biggest ever.

I can provide links if you doubt me. He is just like Betsy DeVoss and is hunting a media job. He was on Fox before becoming Governor!

[Turin_C3PO]

8. I don't like Kasich.

I'm glad he's not a fascist but he's still far too right wing for my taste.

[3catwoman3]

21. It is my understanding that Kasich is just as mean-hearted as...

...most of his fellow Republicans, but manages to conceal it better with a sort of Reaganesque folksiness and not foaming at the mouth.

Interesting that autocorrect changed Kasich to Kaiser. Fitting.

[4Q2u2]

24. Charter Schools Problems

Oklahoma is finding out the hard way

https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/education/state-education-board-demands-11-2-million-back-from-epic-charter-schools-over-state-audit/article_95835226-09aa-11eb-96c6-73578dca8558.html#:~:text=The%20Oklahoma%20State%20Board%20of%20Education%20on%20Monday%20voted%20unanimously,costs%20and%20inaccurate%20cost%20accounting.

"In all, $125.2 million of the $458 million allocated to Epic Charter Schools, the operator of two public schools, for educating students the past six years was found to have ended up in the coffers of Epic Youth Services, a for-profit charter school management company that reportedly has made millionaires of school co-founders Ben Harris and David Chaney. The report raises questions that are now up to the Oklahoma attorney general to respond to about the legality of transferring hundreds of thousands of Oklahoma tax dollars to Epic’s California charter school, commingling funds for Epic’s two separate Oklahoma schools and chronically misreporting administrative costs."

Charlie Pierce Esquire Mag.

[Lonestarblue]

30. I am not a big charter school fan.

I believe that there have been some successful nonprofit charters that have improved students’ education, but far too many of them are just profit-making machines that shortchange students and then when results are poor they quit, leaving the public schools the job of reintegrating students whose knowledge may not have kept up with their grade peers. Even nonprofit charters need to be examined carefully because some are fronts for the profit-making management companies.

Given the fact that over 70 million people voted for Trump and Republicans and believe everything Fox News and Rush Limbaugh tell them, our education systems need a lot of help. I don’t think charters are the answer, especially some are clearly started to teach extremist religious perspectives and others to keep black and brown students out.

I suspect Dr. Jill will have a lot of influence on the next Secretary of Education.

[Auggie]

26. Prediction: Kasich will be the Republican nominee for POTUS in 2024

[Spazito]

31. I don't know that he will end up being the nominee but...

I have no doubt he will be running. If the republican voters remain as they are now, Tucker Carlson is more likely to win the nomination than Kasich. Racism rules, we saw that in this election when it comes to repub voters.

[Auggie]

32. So true ...

Admittedly, I laughed out loud when I read Tucker Carlson. It's actually no laughing matter. The bar has been set as low as it can go and anything is possible.

[Spazito]

33. Yep, there is no longer any bottom line for repubs, trump removed it n/t

[Tanuki]

5. Will be glad to have a reversal of Betsy Prince Devos' mercenary attack

on public education.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R

[NNadir]

7. Thank God. That ignoramus managed to be among the worst of the worst.

Only Barr exceeds her in damage to the country.

[Turin_C3PO]

9. I'd put her as third most dangerous.

Behind Barr and the nazi Steven Miller.

[NNadir]

11. I'd probably reverse the order. The Nazi Miller was limited...

...to the destruction of a subset of children's lives, but Devos intellectually impaled all American children.

Miller disgusts any decent human being to be sure, and certainly deserves Nuremberg type treatment for crimes against humanity but in terms of reach in the destruction of a generation Devos's destruction was broader.

[Turin_C3PO]

14. Good points.

I sincerely hope we do see Nuremberg-style trials for all these scumbags. We can even provide them with the cyanide pills, free of charge.

[Newest Reality]

10. Now for Ben Carson at HUD. He was unqualified except to fulfill what he was appointed for.

[AZ8theist]

37. "LOOK AT MY AFRICAN AMERICAN OVER THERE!!!!!!" - Doturd.

[yaesu]

12. very welcomed news. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

15. It was a pyramid marketing scheme

all the money at the top for the elites, nothing but crumbs for the masses

[MyOwnPeace]

16. I was hoping for support from Mrs. Biden

especially knowing her background. I will also admit that I was not a fan of President Obama's Education Department either under the leadership of Arne Duncan - prehaps my one and only disappointment from the Obama era.

[northoftheborder]

22. Real reform and progressive improvement in public education is long overdue.

I'm very hopeful with Joe and Jill in charge.

[lagomorph777]

17. Cruella DeVos can go help out in her brother's mercenary hustle.

[calimary]

19. Cruella DeVos! That's FANTASTIC, lagomorph77!

Absolutely, utterly, and flatly FANTASTIC!

[lagomorph777]

23. Too bad we won't have use for it much longer.

Actually, not so bad.

[calimary]

35. Yeah, no kidding!

WON'T miss her! That's for sure!

[calimary]

18. Oh, EXCELLENT!!!

Wipe it clean! Get RID of the infestation! That germ, Betsy DeVos, should be shown the door RIGHT NOW! Detestable, deplorable monster should take her damnable wrecking crew and disappear! Down the hatch to Hell would be fine with me.

Go sell Amway door-to-door, Betsy.

[BobTheSubgenius]

20. Betsy is yet another one.

She is one of a growing group that, whenever I hear current news of them and their doings, I think "OK. For sure SHE is in my pantheon of the very most awful they have to offer. Turns out, there are many of them. It's hard to have a coherent inner dialogue about them.

[MyOwnPeace]

25. As Donnie said,

"Only the best!"

[Roland99]

27. K&F'n R!

[Doreen]

28. Good for her to be leaving.

Turn it around so young college girls will not have to be shamed and discouraged from reporting a man for raping her because it is tragic to ruin his life. Get this voucher crap removed.

[AwakeAtLast]

29. Thank you!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

34. Absolutely

Probably one of the most unqualified people in the position ever.

[elleng]

38. 'The team Mr. Biden has named to help the Education Department through the transition signaled

the direction he intends to take.

Leading the team is Linda Darling-Hammond, the president of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based Learning Policy Institute, who also oversaw the education transition for Mr. Obama in 2008. Ms. Darling-Hammond, a veteran education researcher and policymaker in arenas like desegregation, school finance and teacher preparation, was considered a contender for Mr. Biden’s secretary of education, but took herself out of the running, saying she was committed to her work in California.'

SHE is JUST the person I've hoped, for YEARS, would take the role of Ed Sec. NOW, PLEASE!