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The 12 Point Covid-19 DISCONNECT Between Teachers and Those Who Want Schools Open Now!

February 4, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Pressure is being placed on teachers to return to in-person classes. Here’s why that’s a problem. 1. Precautions The CDC  and Dr. Fauci and President Biden want all schools to return to in-person learning with precautions in place. But precautions are exactly what many schools often lack. Teachers know best whether or not precautions are […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Communities, covid-19, Funding, learning loss, News, parents, Precautions opening schools, private vs. public schools, public schools, School Privatization, science, student death due to Covid-19, teacher deaths due to covid-19, teachers, Teachers' Unions, vouchers

Public School “Reimagine” and “Revolution” Hypocrisy: Put Them Out to Pasture!

April 19, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

Teachers and parents on the frontlines of this pandemic should be given control of how their schools are reimagined in the future. When this crisis ends, they should be given the voice on how to bring back democratic public schools and make them their own. Any revolution surrounding schools is theirs. Those who foisted unproven and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: a public school revolution, charter schools, Common Core, counselors, high-stakes testing, One-size-fits-all, Online Instruction, past school reforms, reimagine public schools, School Librarians, school libraries, School Nurses, teachers, vouchers

Learning Disabilities and Inclusion: Abandoned Commitment

December 3, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

Parents around the country are angry, claiming that their children who have learning disabilities, namely dyslexia, are not being served in public schools. The question here is why aren’t public schools serving students with learning disabilities? Isn’t it the law? Many parents expect inclusion in general education classes, although some argue for vouchers. Vouchers mean […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ADHD, charters, dyslexia, inclusion, Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Regular Education Initiative (REI), special education, vouchers

How is School Choice “Freedom” When Students Lose School Libraries and Librarians?

April 27, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. ~Laura Bush What choice and charter advocates don’t advertise is that most charter schools don’t invest in school libraries with qualified […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: charter schools, Charter schools without librarians, charter schools without libraries, Empowerment, Florida, Librarians, Loss of School Librarians, Loss of School Libraries, School Choice, School Freedom, school libraries, vouchers

“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

How DeVos & Co. Use Special Ed. to Privatize Public Schools and End Student Services

February 27, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her corporate friends are about dumping civil rights protections regarding IDEA. Special education has become a means to transform public education into choice and charter schools while ending student services. This is done by defunding special education and convincing parents that services don’t matter. Dismantling services in public schools shouldn’t be allowed. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, charter schools, Corporations and public schools, Opportunity Scholarships, School Choice, school reform, special education, vouchers

School Choice Deception: Florida’s Plan and Students Who Don’t Measure Up

December 16, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Florida is a bellwether state. What happens to schools there will move to other states in one form or another. I would like to share a personal story of how I met school choice as a teacher in Florida and how it helped cement in me the desire to advocate for a public school system […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, charter schools, Florida, Governor-elect DeSantis, Jeb Bush, Lake Highland Preparatory School, learning disabilities, private schools, public schools, School Choice, School Privatization, vouchers

Quit Saying Special Ed. Costs Too Much! 8 Cost-Cutting Signs to Watch Out For

October 12, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

In 1975, President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 94-142. The law guaranteed every child a free appropriate public education. This positively impacted millions of children across the country. The law was later reauthorized and renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Many politicians never wanted to fund special education. From the start, there was no […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, corporate school reform, Funding Special Education, redefining special education, special education, special education paperwork, Special Education Privatization, vouchers

My Blogging Anniversary: How Has School Reform Changed in Five Years?

August 21, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 17 Comments

I recently passed the five-year anniversary of when I started writing my blog. What has changed? In this post, I analyze some of the issues I’ve written about over the years. Then, I thank you for your support. Change or lack of change in education can seem dark and foreboding, but there’s a great deal […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 5th year anniversary, charter schoos, class size, Common Core, data, early childhood education, reading, recess, retention, Social Emotional Learning, special education, standardized testing, Technology, the arts, vouchers

How Do We Stop Bullying? Florida’s New Voucher Scam Doesn’t Ask that Question

March 12, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

Behind bullying behavior we usually find a depressed individual who needs help. We need to understand why a child bullies and get them that help so they will stop bullying. Most people understand how serious the issue of bullying is to children and the country, and how schools should be on the forefront of addressing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: #Rethink Schools, Bullying, Bullying Behavior, Florida's New Voucher Scam, Gov. Jeb Bush, Patricia Levesque, private schools, Retention of 3rd graders, School Choice, vouchers

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"We are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished.”

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