Posted on 11/23/2016 2:32:32 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Q+A
Q: What are 5 things we might not know about you?
I’m a grandmother! My husband (Dick) and I have four children and five grandchildren.
I was born and raised in Michigan. Born in Holland, MI, I’ve been a lifelong resident of Michigan.
I’m an advocate for children. I’ve been involved with education issues for 28 years. I’ve been on the front lines fighting to make education better for all children.
I’m an activist. I’m a total outsider to elective office and government, but I’m no stranger to the political process. A citizen volunteer, I have served in local, state, and national offices.
I’m an entrepreneur. I have started new and innovative companies that help make our community better.
Q: There’s been a lot of talk about Common Core. Can you provide some straight talk on this topic?
Certainly. I am not a supporter—period.
I do support high standards, strong accountability, and local control. When Governors such as John Engler, Mike Huckabee, and Mike Pence were driving the conversation on voluntary high standards driven by local voices, it all made sense.
Have organizations that I have been a part of supported Common Core? Of course. But that’s not my position. Sometimes it’s not just students who need to do their homework.
However, along the way, it got turned into a federalized boondoggle.
Above all, I believe every child, no matter their zip code or their parents’ jobs, deserves access to a quality education.
Q: What are your thoughts about specific education policies?
I am very excited to get to work and to talk about my thoughts and ideas on making American education great again. The status quo is not acceptable. I am committed to transforming our education system into the best in the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at betsydevos.com ...
Since at least 2013 through today she is a Board Member of an organization dedicated to implementing Common Core.
One doesn’t sit for three and a half years on the Board of an organization whose sole purpose is implementation of Common Core if one doesn’t support Common Core.
http://www.excelined.org/board-corner/board-of-directors/
http://web.archive.org/web/20130301033627/http://excelined.org/board-corner/board-of-directors
http://www.excelined.org/about-us/reform-agenda/
http://www.excelined.org/common-core-toolkit/common-core-toolkit/
Boy, you’re right about that. Some politicians would want to get in front of a runaway train if someone told them it was the right thing to do. In business too, the name of the game is to jump quick, make sure you get credit, and then move on before any accountability for results can settle in on you.
I do hope she opens up Education to CHOICE, COMPETITION and breaks the power of bureaus..
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What she really needs to break is the power of teachers unions.
“Q: There’s been a lot of talk about Common Core. Can you provide some straight talk on this topic?
Certainly. I am not a supporter—period.”
Which part of that succinct answer confused you?
She later elaborated, “Have organizations that I have been a part of supported Common Core? Of course. But that’s not my position.”
Then rounded out her statement with a quip just exactly tailored for you, “Sometimes it’s not just students who need to do their homework.”
DeVos is being dishonest. She was not some anonymous member of an organization that happened to support Common Core, she sat for three and a half years on the Board of an organization whose sole purpose is implementation of Common Core. She is still on that Board today.
She said she did not support common core.
See post 21. She’s lying.
OK. But the soap was a good value. The marketing/dinners at “friends” homes in the 70s was a good way to cement, or end a friendshipl
>>Certainly. I am not a supporter—period.
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Thanks BFAC. This needed to get out. I’ve heard a lot of rumors about DoVos and common core.
Wow...is that all you got from the news snippet?
Her entire background is vouchers, home school protection ,to dismantle the National Department of Education and rid us of Common Core.....
Yet you still gripe.....go figure....
My wife and I (seriously mostly my wife) have put three millennials through public school. The vast majority of educators are passionate and care about educating children. But, at the end of the day there is no one who cares more about educating your child than YOU!
Parents will always need to take an active role in the education of their children in order to get the most out of any system of education.
Evidence please. I'm not trying to be a jerk but I really don't know anything about DeVos.
Where does she stand on phonics, on traditional arithmetic, on learning the literature of the West, science on a classical approach supplemented by electives in late middle school high school on the technical.
Common core curriculum and content deprive our children of their very souls and a developed intellect with age inappropriate content and methodology.
The reply of the thread!
Exactly.
And sometimes the people being snowed should have known in real time.
I’ve seen it myself.
Trump hits another one out of the park.
If you’re getting flack it means you’re over the target.
I agree with your thoughts.
It isn’t easy for parents either.
Many teachers simply won’t call you unless there’s a well established crisis in the works.
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