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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

Betsy DeVos Goes Trick or Treating for Dyslexia

October 31, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

US Senator Bill Cassidy MD (R-LA) and his wife Dr. Laura Cassidy recently met with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and dyslexia and learning disability organizations to discuss serving children with dyslexia. It’s important to remember five things. Public schools used to do more for students with learning disabilities. Resource classes, general education support, and certified […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Choice, dyslexia, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, learning disabilities, public schools, Sen. Bill Cassidy MD (R-LA), vouchers

Alternative Ed., or Personalized Learning? And Susan Sarandon’s Ad

October 7, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

During this serious time when public schools are under siege and threatened by a tech, anti-teacher, anti-brick-and-mortar schools, and an anything goes takeover, it’s important to define public schools. It goes without saying that public schools should be creative places for learning. Some children, especially those who are at-risk, require different learning environments. The alternative […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AERO, Alternative Education Resource Organization, charter schools, Choice, Dual Enrollment, Hackerspaces, Homeschooling, Makerspaces, Pay for Success, Personalized Learning, Susan Sarandon, Unschooling, 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

Trip Down Memory Lane with Florida’s McKay Vouchers

May 21, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

One more awful bill in Florida is being used to push public schools towards privatization and poor schooling for students. Said to be 55 bills in one, HB 7069 use words like “starvation” to reference funding for public schools. Charters are called “Schools of Hope” even though Florida’s charter school record is dismal. Many Floridians […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Florida, HB 7069, McKay Scholarship Program for Students With disabilities, vouchers

Tennessee Legislators Cry, “Thank God for Memphis!”

April 5, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Many voucher plans are popping up in state legislatures across the country. Here’s what’s happening in Tennessee. By Jim Gifford No matter what, many Tennessee legislators know a good deal when they see it. If a proposed new bill or untested program concerning public education is considered too risky or is unpopular with the constituents […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Achievement School District (ASD), Betsy DeVos, Memphis, Public School Privatization, Tennessee, Tennessee Legislature, TN Rep. Harry Brooks, TN Sen. Brian Kelsey, Voucher Plans, vouchers

Endrew F., Special Education, and Charter Schools: What’s the Connection?

March 26, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

It requires an educational program reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child’s circumstances. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. In light of the current administration’s push for school choice in the form of vouchers and charter schools, and the selection of Betsy DeVos to be education secretary, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools (NCSECS), New Orleans, vouchers

Educating Betsy DeVos

February 15, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

Betsy DeVos does not understand what it is like to teach in any school let alone poor public schools. She does not understand what the lives of real teachers and students are like. She does not understand the problems facing many of America’s children. These problems won’t be solved with a voucher. They also won’t […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, Common Core, learning, mental health, public schools, Real Problems, School Nurses, special education, teaching, Technology, vouchers

When P.E. and 12 Other Activities Masquerade as Recess

February 4, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

As state legislatures make mandates claiming to secure recess in schools, it is important to nail down what they mean when they define recess. There are a lot of canned activities and commercialized gimmicks parading as recess. It is important not to be duped into thinking your child is getting recess when they aren’t. Look […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Activity, early childhood education, P.E., recess, Recess Gimmicks, School Breaks, State Recess Mandates, Tennessee Recess Bill, vouchers

Destroying Special Ed. For Free Market Reform? Question About Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District

January 19, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Was the defunding of special education used to pave the way for school reforms that would eventually take place in the Douglas County, Colorado school district? Was special education sacrificed to make 21st Century Schools? There’s lots to talk about with this case, but I want to discuss the school district and what was happening […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, Free Market, privatization, public schools, special education, Technology, vouchers

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