Senator Murray Wants Your Stories about Public Education
From Senator Patty Murray's office:
President-elect Trump has nominated someone to lead the Department of Education who has spent her career trying to privatize public education. We need real stories about the value of public education to help fight back -- share yours today.
President-elect Trump has nominated someone to lead the Department of Education who has spent her career trying to privatize public education. We need real stories about the value of public education to help fight back -- share yours today.
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-Tired
I don't know what Ms DeVos has up her sleeve. The attempt at creating "choice" and "markets" has failed miserably with the small high schools in Highline. Is that the fault of public education? I think not. If anything, it is the fault of attempts to give up local influence in exchange for outside money, compounded by administrative decisions and school board silence.
So, as I'm writing this, I think that will be my message to Sen Murray. Probably not the one she wants though, since the money that created the small schools came from the Gates Foundation. But the Gates Foundation essentially seemed to be running the US Department of Education during the Obama years. Do a Google search on "gates foundation running us department of education" and you'll find plenty of links.
Highline Parent
Senator Murray is a great senator, honest and very down to earth. I've met her a couple times while working for the dems. She will go to the mat for us against the neo-fascist regime of the sexual assaulting, pathological lying, hate mongering president-elect.
I don't know if you are new to the United States Stuart, but we here in Seattle are the only place with public financing of elections that I know of. Just received my Democracy Voucher today, in fact. Otherwise politics is driven by money, lots of it, and Senator Murray needs money to retain her seat so if people have some money to give along with comments, in my opinion, it's is money well spent.
Stop Trump
In summary, I'd say that SPS provides the same customer service that most monopolies do. It's just like Comcast. In other words, they suck.
We need a public policy that encourages SPS leadership to pay closer attention to the kids, not themselves and their agenda.
Bring on the charters.
Fed Up
The second kid is mostly in a self-contained special ed classroom. I can't imagine ANY private school--charter, religious, or other--meeting the needs of my second kid. By law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), he gets an education equal to his older sibling. Many of us "SpEd" parents won't sing praises about the Seattle School District but they're making significant improvements. My youngest is learning to read, to write (type) and the life skills that will allow him to live life to his fullest potential. Private schools have no obligations to meet his needs. This is not a place for the market to decide. Providing education for our widely varied student body-- e.g. special needs, ESL, poor, abused, teen parents among the many others--is not about which kid has the money to make it. At the state level, funding is unequal across school districts. We don't need money spent on private schools to make the system we have, albeit with need for improvement, worse.
Reality bites
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