The Failure of Betsy DeVos and 30 Years of Corporate Influence on Public Schools!
Frustrated by public schools? Look no further than the corporate education reformers and what they have done to public education.
Education Secretary DeVos and her corporate billionaire friends have been chipping away at the fabric of democratic public schools for over thirty years!
The problems we see in public schools today are largely a result of what they did to schools, the high-stakes testing and school closures, intentional defunding, ugly treatment of teachers, lack of support staff, segregated charter schools, vouchers that benefit the wealthy, Common Core State Standards, and diminishing special education services.
Big business waged a battle on teachers and their schools years ago. The drive was to create a business model to profit from tax dollars. Now they want to blame teachers for their corporate-misguided blunders! It’s part of their plan to make schools so unpleasant, parents will have no choice but to leave.
Americans used to be relatively happy with their public schools. By 2019, they were frustrated, but they still believed in teachers!
Back up to the early 1970s. Ray Budde, a teacher turned principal turned college CONTINUE READING: The Failure of Betsy DeVos and 30 Years of Corporate Influence on Public Schools!
