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Meet the Democrats Who Support the Betsy DeVos Agenda | Diane Ravitch's blog

Meet the Democrats Who Support the Betsy DeVos Agenda | Diane Ravitch's blog

Meet the Democrats Who Support the Betsy DeVos Agenda

Every year since 2014, Democrats who fervently support the privatization of public schools have gathered at a conference they pretentiously call “Camp Philos.”

Check the agenda of meetings present and past.
There you will see the lineup of Democrats who sneer at public schools and look on public school teachers with contempt.
These are the Democrats who support the DeVos agenda of disrupting and privatizing public schools.
They are meeting again this year, and they will slap each other on the back for supporting school closures, charter schools, high-stakes testing, evaluating teachers by the test scores of their students, and hiring inexperienced teachers.
They have the chutzpah to call themselves “stakeholders,” although none of them are teachers, parents of public school students, or have any stake in the public schools that enroll 85-90% of all American students. Exactly what do they have a “stake” in?
Meet the Democrats Who Support the Betsy DeVos Agenda | Diane Ravitch's blog