Thread by @EdProgress

THREAD: During tonight’s #SOTU, you may hear Trump tout his record on education -- but here are the facts 👇🏾 #SOTU2020

1. What we need from our Edu Leaders and #POTUS: policy development with an explicit race equity lens addressing decades of structural and financial barriers to opportunity for students in America’s public schools #CAPEducation #SOTU

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2. What we’ve gotten from @BetsyDeVosED: rescinding school discipline guidelines aimed at correcting years of over-policing students of color. #SOTU

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@BetsyDeVosED 3. What we need from our Edu Leaders and POTUS: a modern approach to elevating the teaching profession; highly trained, highly respected, and highly compensated #CAPEducation #SOTU
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@BetsyDeVosED 4. What we’ve gotten from @BetsyDeVosED: significant cuts to Title II of the Every Student Succeeds Act, which funds high-quality teacher training nationwide #SOTU

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@BetsyDeVosED 5. What we need from our Edu Leaders and a POTUS: evidence-based solutions to ensure school safety, like resisting use of biased threat assessment tools and funding supports for students with mental health needs not stigmatizing them #CAPEducation #SOTU

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@BetsyDeVosED 6. What we’ve gotten from @BetsyDeVosED: attempts to arm teachers through the excuse of reducing gun violence. #SOTU

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@BetsyDeVosED 7. What we need from our Edu Leaders and POTUS: investing in the recruitment and retention of teachers in rural and small-town areas #CAPEducation #SOTU

@BetsyDeVosED 8. What we’ve gotten from @BetsyDeVosED: ineffective policy solutions, completely overlooking rural areas, where less dense populations can't support vouchers. #SOTU

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@BetsyDeVosED 9. What we need from our Edu Leaders and POTUS: expanding access to a quality education for all by prioritizing public funds for public schools #CAPEducation #SOTU

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@BetsyDeVosED 10. What we’ve gotten from @BetsyDeVosED: National voucher proposal, diverting public money to private education and starving public schools of vital resources. #SOTU

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@BetsyDeVosED 11. What we need from our Edu Leaders and POTUS: national standards for accountability and oversight among for-profit charter schools and a balanced approach to supporting and creating charter schools #CAPEducation #SOTU
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@BetsyDeVosED 12. What we’ve gotten from @BetsyDeVosED: investments in K12 Inc., a publicly traded company and the largest for-profit virtual school provider in the U.S. with repeated reports of troubling practices supporting their bottom line versus families #SOTU

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@BetsyDeVosED 13. Don’t let Donald Trump fool you at tonight’s #SOTU. The real story is that he and Betsy DeVos are slashing funds for students in public schools while trying to send more money to private school voucher schemes. /end