Betsy DeVos on why schools are performing worse under her policies

[spurraider21]

there's no one size fits all answer. granada high is one of the best schools in all of LAUSD and its a charter school

[rmt]

"privatively-run, publicly funded"

... with nearly their entire budgets out-sourced to for-profit companies

Charters/magnets offer students/parents CHOICE as opposed to being stuck in some bad school just because one lives within its boundaries. How can you be against that? Just because they compete against your almighty government schools? In my opinion, if schools don't produce good results, the natural consequence should be that students go elsewhere and those schools (whether publicly or privately run) should shut down.

[boutons_deux]

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[rmt]

National Enquirer Insider Says Ivanka Trump Engaged In Criminal Activity

Trump Officials Plan to Rescind Obama-Era School Discipline Policies

The Trump administration is planning to roll back Obama-era policies

aimed at ensuring that minority children are not unfairly disciplined,

arguing that the

efforts have eased up on punishment and

contributed to rising violence in the nation’s schools,

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/u...er=rss&emc=rss

Red meat thrown to White Male Nationalist racist animals

"delaying an Obama-era rule to prevent disproportionate numbers of minority children from being funneled into special education classes."

Don't you think that maybe these minority children might BENEFIT by being in these special education classes (and probably taught by teachers with specialized knowledge). As far as I know, there are procedural steps that evaluate if classes are needed - if admitted, there are periodic testing and review for eventual dismissal from programs. To deny admittance because of a perceived stigma or having numbers "look" good may be doing minority kids a disservice.

[boutons_deux]

National Enquirer Insider Says Ivanka Trump Engaged In Criminal Activity

Trump Officials Plan to Rescind Obama-Era School Discipline Policies

The Trump administration is planning to roll back Obama-era policies

aimed at ensuring that minority children are not unfairly disciplined,

arguing that the

efforts have eased up on punishment and

contributed to rising violence in the nation’s schools,

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/u...er=rss&emc=rss

Red meat thrown to White Male Nationalist racist animals

[Nbadan]

"delaying an Obama-era rule to prevent disproportionate numbers of minority children from being funneled into special education classes."

Don't you think that maybe these minority children might BENEFIT by being in these special education classes (and probably taught by teachers with specialized knowledge). As far as I know, there are procedural steps that evaluate if classes are needed - if admitted, there are periodic testing and review for eventual dismissal from programs. To deny admittance because of a perceived stigma or having numbers "look" good may be doing minority kids a disservice.

Nah....kids who are put into the special ed program are rarely exited from the program. Not only that, they get a blue diploma upon graduation...

[boutons_deux]

The Texas Legislature took away $118 million in pre-K funding. Now districts are scrambling.


https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03...ts-scrambling/

Pre-K provides most benefits to the most needy kids, eg, blacks and browns, but racist hole so-called Christian TX always screws non-whites.

and TX, along with other red/slave states, ranks near the bottom in educational spending per student

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-education-spending-per-pupil-data.html

pay peanuts, get monkeys

[boutons_deux]

10 Charter Schools Fail State Standards as Most Charter Districts Improve

In most cases, local charter school districts improved year-over-year.

However,

five charter districts – including KIPP Texas and Great Hearts Texas, which last year operated a total of 10 campuses in San Antonio – received lower grades than in the previous year.

Great Hearts Texas fell from an A to a B, while KIPP Texas got a B for the second year in a row.

Heritage Academy,
School of Science and Technology, and
Southwest Preparatory School

also were graded lower this year.

Southwest Preparatory had the most dramatic stumble, dropping two letter grades from a B to a D.

Overall, 22 of the state’s 179 charter districts got Ds and eight got Fs.

https://therivardreport.com/10-chart...eid=54a5432c74

hard evidence that charter schools, esp for-profit charter schools, are no better than public schools, and in many case, MUCH worse.