{"id":39316,"date":"2020-08-03T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-joe-biden-presidency-would-be-a-disaster-for-our-schools-devine\/"},"modified":"2020-08-03T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T02:30:00","slug":"a-joe-biden-presidency-would-be-a-disaster-for-our-schools-devine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-joe-biden-presidency-would-be-a-disaster-for-our-schools-devine\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Joe Biden presidency would be a disaster for our schools: Devine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b9b194fe27\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b9b194fe27\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-joe-biden-presidency-would-be-a-disaster-for-our-schools-devine\/#Pelosis_sick_attack_on_Dr_Birx\" >Pelosi\u2019s sick attack on Dr. Birx<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-joe-biden-presidency-would-be-a-disaster-for-our-schools-devine\/#Joe_is_in_veep_trouble\" >Joe is in veep trouble<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#A Joe Biden presidency would be a disaster for our schools: Devine<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Joe Biden sent his own children to an elite private school, and parades as the Black Lives Matter candidate, yet his policies are openly hostile to the educational choices that offer the best chance for minority advancement.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden-Bernie Sanders \u201cunity\u201d policy platform aims a dagger at charter schools, insisting they \u201cundermine the many extraordinary public schools in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It targets \u201cfor profit\u201d charter schools for destruction, while strangling the rest with demands for \u201caccountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It calls for accepting a labyrinth of red-tape, ideological intrusion into the curriculum, ending \u201chigh stakes\u201d testing, mandating teacher \u201cdiversity\u201d and restricting discipline procedures.<\/p>\n<p>What is it with Democrats and their hostility to schools that offer poor minority kids the best ticket out of generational poverty and disadvantage?<\/p>\n<p>Biden made his views clear at a public-education forum last December when he said if he becomes president, charter schools \u201care gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharter does not mean better,\u201d says his manifesto.<\/p>\n<p>But the fact is, as Thomas Sowell writes in his brilliant new book, \u201cCharter Schools and Their Enemies,\u201d the success of charter schools in closing the racial education gap is a reproach to teacher unions and their political enablers.<\/p>\n<p>Sowell, senior fellow at Stanford University\u2019s Hoover Institution, lays out the evidence, focusing on charter-school students in New York City from the Success Academy \u2014 which educates 20,000 mostly low-income black and Latino students in 47 schools in Brooklyn, The Bronx and Manhattan \u2014 and the KIPP network, which educates 100,000 students in 242 schools, more than 95 percent of whom are black or Latino.<\/p>\n<p>To counter the theory that charter schools cream off children from the most motivated families, he points out that students are selected by lottery and only a fraction who <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ly are accepted. Yet the ones who miss out and have to continue at their traditional public school never perform as well as their charter-school counterparts, so it is the school that adds value.<\/p>\n<p>He compares apples with apples, charter-school students who share buildings with traditional public-school students from the same socioeconomic and racial backgrounds, and the same neighborhoods. The results show that charter kids outperform their public-school counterparts in almost every case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2019, most students in the city\u2019s public schools failed to pass the statewide tests in mathematics and English. But most of the city\u2019s charter-school students passed in both subjects,\u201d he writes. \u201cThe educational achievement gap between students in low-income minority communities and those in the larger society [has] been closed in New York City\u2019s charter schools \u2014 but not in the traditional unionized public schools in the same buildings with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, charter schools in low-income minority neighborhoods have sometimes achieved higher educational results than schools in affluent white neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is success, a remarkable success. What is equally remarkable is how unwelcome this success has been in many places,\u201d according to Sowell.<\/p>\n<p>Parents are voting with their feet, with more than 50,000 students on waiting lists to get into New York City charter schools, and an estimated 1 million more on waiting lists nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>But if Biden and Mayor de\u2009Blasio have their way, that chance to climb the ladder of aspiration will disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Sowell says antagonism to charter schools is partly driven by money, because if 50,000 children on a waiting list were able to get into a charter school in New York, that would take more than a billion dollars a year out of the traditional public-school system.<\/p>\n<p>Unions also are hostile to the fact that charter schools can hold teachers accountable for educational outcomes and can fire them for incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>Not so in the public system, where the \u201ctenure protections of unionized teachers [mean that] firing an incompetent teacher on average takes 830 days and costs $313,000,\u201d Sowell writes, citing the New York State School Boards Association.<\/p>\n<p>He takes special aim at de\u2009Blasio: \u201cNo public official has made more sweeping or more hostile attacks on charter schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mayor\u2019s 2019 address to his union masters at the National Education Association exemplifies the anti-charter school backlash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate the privatizers and I want to stop them,\u201d de Blasio said. \u201cGet away from high-stakes testing, get away from charter schools. No federal funding for charter schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The installation of de Blasio\u2019s former deputy mayor, Richard Buery, as head of policy inside the Kipp charter school network is described by Sowell as an example of dangerous \u201cinstitutionalized interventions within the charter schools themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is an alarming sign of capitulation that last month, Kipp announced it will abandon its founding motto \u201cWork hard. Be nice,\u201d because somehow, it \u201cdiminishes the significant effort to dismantle systemic racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is an Orwellian reversal of the truth. Working hard and exerting self-discipline is the key to a good education, and a good education is the best weapon against racial inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever motivates the enemies of charter schools, you cannot describe it as anything but evil.<\/p>\n<p>How else do you characterize adults willing to sacrifice the welfare of powerless children to entrench their own power?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pelosis_sick_attack_on_Dr_Birx\"><\/span>Pelosi\u2019s sick attack on Dr. Birx<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>So much for Nancy Pelosi\u2019s pretense that she is a champion of women. Her sexist trashing of White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Deborah Birx is just evidence of her determination to politicize the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker reportedly told White House officials Thursday, \u201cDeborah Birx is the worst. Wow, what horrible hands you\u2019re in.\u201d She doubled down on ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> Sunday, saying she had \u201cno confidence\u201d in the physician.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Birx is a distinguished doctor, diplomat and Army colonel who has devoted her career to fighting HIV-AIDS. She was President Obama\u2019s AIDS global ambassador, and director of AIDS research at the CDC and Walter Reed. Unlike Pelosi, she sticks to the facts and does not grandstand or seek to ingratiate herself with the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi isn\u2019t fit to tie one of Birx\u2019s elegant scarves.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Joe_is_in_veep_trouble\"><\/span>Joe is in veep trouble<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>After all the suspense, Joe Biden has delayed announcing the woman of color who will be his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>The leaking and infighting shows what a mess Biden created for himself by allowing identity politics to dictate a choice that is more crucial for him than for any previous presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>His advanced age and declining mental energy mean that his vice president needs to be match-fit to step into his shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he daren\u2019t choose someone so ambitious that she will overshadow him in his first term. Hello, Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>But since it\u2019s not hard to outshine Biden in his current state, if he chooses someone who does not make him look like a lame duck, by definition, she will not have what it takes to be president.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Opinion News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/02\/joe-biden-presidency-would-be-a-disaster-for-our-schools-devine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#A Joe Biden presidency would be a disaster for our schools: Devine&#8221; Joe Biden sent his own children to an elite private school, and parades as the Black Lives Matter candidate, yet his policies are openly hostile to the educational choices that offer the best chance for minority advancement. 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