How Betsy DeVos and the charter school movement are exploiting the pandemic to advance their agendas

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Written by Jeff Bryant / Independent Media Institute April 22, 2020

COVID-19 has shuttered public schools across the nation, state governments are threatening to slash education budgets due to the economic collapse caused by the outbreak, and emergency aid provided by the federal government is far short of what is needed, according to a broad coalition of education groups, but the charter school industry may benefit from its unique status to seek public funding from multiple sources and expand these schools into many more communities traumatized by the pandemic and financial fallout.

As school districts reported huge problems with converting classroom learning into online instruction delivered to students’ homes, often due to lack of funding for internet-capable devices and Wi-Fi hotspots, charter school proponents spread the news of how their industry could take advantage of emergency aid.

Charter operators rolled out new marketing campaigns to lure families to enroll in their schools. And in national and local news outlets, advocates for charters, vouchers, and other forms of “school choice” helped forge a new media narrative about how the shuttering of the nation’s schools was an opportunity for parents and their children to leave public schools.

Teachers in Los Angeles and Oakland urged their districts to stop charter school expansions and co-locations, which they believe worsen the trauma that children in their communities are experiencing due to the virus. But the Trump administration and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have shown no signs of easing up their campaigns to further privatize public schools.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/how-betsy-devos-and-the-charter-school-movement-are-exploiting-the-pandemic-to-advance-their-agendas/

I really do hope that we take back our government....................she is just vile despicable woman............

[SheltieLover]

1. K&R

She belongs in prison. 🤬

[Jamastiene]

2. Is there any cookie jar she does not have her hands in right now?

She is exploiting this thing at both ends and the middle too. She is one deranged, greedy, disgusting person. Can Congress investigate her activities?

[turbinetree]

3. She thinks that she is going to be able to get on that 160 foot yacht and sail into the

sunset.................

The 163-foot-long (50 m) vessel is one of ten yachts owned by her family, which has a net worth of $5.3 billion.

[Jamastiene]

4. I wish there was a way to catch and punish all of these people who are raiding our

tax dollars for their own purposes. They are just raiding our tax dollars and denying states things we already paid for like PPE and now we are finding out about this. I have to wonder how much more is going on that we have not heard about. It is infuriating.