Biden's Policy Director: "Biden will make sure that we stop funding for charter schools that don’t provide results."
If charter schools aren't providing results then why are families choosing them?🤔
I wonder if he plans on pulling funding from underperforming district schools as well?🤔
Biden's Policy Director: "Biden will ban for-profit charter schools from receiving federal funding because [...] no one should be getting rich by taking advantage of our kids."
Giving families a choice isn't "taking advantage" of them.
Forcing them into a monopoly is.
And let's not pretend there aren’t people profiting from forcing children to stay put in failing public schools.
I'd rather people profit from voluntary choices than compulsion.
Biden's Policy Director: "we’ll require every charter school to be authorized & held accountable by democratically-elected bodies like school boards & also held to the same standards of transparency & accountability as all public schools."
Imagine thinking school boards provide real accountability.
Just this year a school board in Buffalo voted to close a top charter school.
POLITICO reported that Biden's team is considering picking the former president of the nation's largest teachers union for education secretary.
"There is also a widespread expectation that he wants to put a union official or someone with union ties in his Cabinet.
Both of those factors have made Lily Garcia, an elementary school teacher and the immediate past president of the NEA, an early favorite for the position."
The current president of the 2nd largest teachers union is also being considered:
"Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, is also frequently mentioned as a contender although she would likely prompt strong Republican opposition"
New data from England: "Since the start of the school year there is no evidence of difference in the positivity rate between teachers and other key workers."
The editor claimed that this sentence "makes clear that this is his subjective interpretation based in his own reading of obituaries, not a representation of scientific research."
That's not true.
"Disproportionate" is an objective statement.
Here is the editor's response.
"Disproportionate" is an objective claim without any evidence.
New data from England: "Since the start of the school year there is no evidence of difference in the positivity rate between teachers and other key workers."
Office for National Statistics, Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey
"Teachers in England are no more likely to contract Covid-19 than other key workers, according to data that appears to bolster the government’s argument for keeping schools open." theguardian.com/education/2020…
DC public schools just canceled their plan to bring some students back next week.
"Teacher protests escalated Monday morning as the union encouraged educators to call in sick in opposition to the reopening plan." washingtonpost.com/local/educatio…
If a grocery store doesn't reopen families can take their money elsewhere
If a school doesn't reopen families should similarly be able to take their children's education dollars elsewhere.