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Is She Focused on Grizzlies Again? DeVos Fails to See the Covid-19 Danger to ALL Schools!

August 7, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Sidestepping Covid-19 to focus on school choice is like DeVos skipping over gun safety concerns about schools to focus on the threat of grizzly bears. I’m of course referring to comments made during her confirmation hearing. Once again, she fails to focus on the real risk. Covid-19 is not going to discriminate between schools. It […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, covid-19, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Parochial Schools, President Trump, private schools, public schools, School Choice

Technology Fails Students. Will It Matter? What’s Next? Private, Parochial, Charters, and Online Programs?

June 7, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

How are schools going to look in the fall? Local school district educators and parents are meeting to draft plans. Weighing heavily on the minds of many is this question, will public schools survive? Will teachers still have a role to play in the education of students? First comes safety. Schools might require a longer period […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, covid-19, online programs, Parochial Schools, private schools, public schools, Technology

“Educational Freedom” is False Advertising!

March 27, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

It sounds so patriotic…Educational Freedom. But public education in traditional public schools is what is truly educational freedom. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and other conservatives like former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and current Tennessee Governor Bill Lee are touting their idea of Educational Freedom and they repeatedly make comments implying that poor children will get […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: children of immigrants, Educational Savings Account, ELL Students, free tuition, Parochial Schools, poverty, private schools, Students with Disabilities, vouchers

IEPs are a Public School Thing: Let’s Not Forget That!

June 16, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

The Governor of Florida and other education reformers seem to have forgotten where Individual Educational Plans (IEPs) started. In this post, I’d like to remind them. The other night I watched the movie Danny Collins. It’s a loosely based true story about a burned out rock star who learns that years earlier he received a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Danny Collins Movie, disabilities, Florida, Governor Rick Scott, inclusion, Individual Educational Plans (IEPs), Parochial Schools, private schools, privatization, Public Law 94-142, Separation of Church and State, special education, vouchers

School Choice v. Local Control—Oil and Water!

August 22, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

Republican Presidential candidates claim to be for choice, including vouchers, charters and opportunity scholarships, and they also claim to be for local control of schools. But school choice and local control are like oil and water. You must choose one or the other. For example, Brandon Wright, in “Donald Trump Quotes about Education” from The […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Local Control of Schools, Opportunity Scholarships, parents, Parochial Schools, Politicians, private schools, privatization, public schools, Republicans, School Choice

Students Can’t Hide From Common Core No Matter What School they Attend

April 13, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 19 Comments

The more I read about Common Core and education reform, the more I am convinced that one of the most important issues is that all students will have to be instructed with these standards if they choose to attend college. A misconception exists about students in private or parochial schools being lucky that they won’t […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACT, AP, Common Core, GED, Homeschools, Parochial Schools, private schools, public schools, SAT

Tennessee is Dating School Vouchers but Will They Get Hitched?

March 12, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

In Tennessee, like a lot of other states in the country, K-12 vouchers are back on the table. Vouchers are the one area in education where Republicans and Democrats differ. Although there are some Dems out there who probably embrace vouchers too. They certainly never see a charter school they don’t like. Click HERE to […]

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EricCeresaEric Ceresa@EricCeresa·
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@clay_mcch @NancyEBailey1 This is an excellent argument for raising teachers' pay, not any sort of argument against a $15 min wage. And raising the min wage DOES raise wages for workers near the minimum. We just don't usually think about the fact that teachers fit that definition.

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tulticanThomas Ultican@tultican·
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Charter Schools Are Killing Saint Louis Public. The City Is Nailing The Coffin Shut. by Lexi Perez Lane https://link.medium.com/8taMmwG44cb

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clay_mcchClay McChristian@clay_mcch·
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So Biden’s $15 minimum wage comes out to $31,200 a year for a 40 hour work week. The starting salary for a beginning teacher in Texas is $33,660. So a person working a minimum wage job will be making almost the same as a teacher with a college degree. Does this make any sense? 🤷‍♂️

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chicagospedpacChicago SpedPac@chicagospedpac·
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.@ChiPubSchools can you tell us how many specIal educators were forced to resign this week due to your policy of not accommodating remote instruction? Break it down by SpEd teachers, SECAs and clinicians

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susanohaSusan Ohanian@susanoha·
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The authors consider the ways in which educational responses to COVID19 exemplify opportunistic disaster
capitalism.
Disaster Capitalism, Rampant EdTech
Opportunism, and the Advancement of
Online Learning in the Era of COVID19
https://ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/criticaled/issue/current

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