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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rejects part-time reopening for schools amid COVID-19 pandemic
By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writer
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday assailed plans by some local districts to offer in-person instruction only a few days a week and said schools must be "fully operational" even amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Anything less, she says, would fail students and taxpayers.
DeVos made the comments during a call with governors as the Trump administration launched an all-out effort to get schools and colleges to reopen. Audio of the call was obtained by The Associated Press.
Ultimately, it's not a matter of if schools need to open, it's a matter of how. School must reopen, they must be fully operational. And how that happens is best left to education and community leaders," DeVos told governors.
President Donald Trump has insisted that schools and colleges return to in-person instruction as soon as possible. Trump said Monday on Twitter that Democrats want to keep schools closed "for political reasons, not for health reasons."
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Whats it like living on Planet Delusional? Thats where all these dumb rocks in the GOP reside.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)they can make things miserable for those that don't.
January can't come soon enough.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)I feel so badly that teachers who are going to be asked to risk their lives. They already give more than they should.
lastlib
(23,268 posts)We should not ask educators who care about children, who make those children the foundation of their careers, to endanger their own lives, and the lives of those children they care for. Reopen schools when it is SAFE, and ONLY when it is safe. And Fuck Shitgibbon and Cruella DeVos.
KS Toronado
(17,304 posts)and we'll see this 2nd wave make the 1st one look like a little bump in the road.
Takket
(21,611 posts)Demovictory9
(32,468 posts)AllyCat
(16,215 posts)Even a few cons didnt want her in the post.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,018 posts)generalbetrayus
(507 posts)to keep schools closed so that kids grow up to be stupid and vote Republican.
Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)Wow, she really thinks she can bamboozle someone with THAT fleck of bullshit.
calimary
(81,434 posts)After all, he picked her for his Education Secretary.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Having dealt with the Department of Education extensively over the last three years dealing with my own borrower defense claim and my loans in general I'm not sure she understands what "fail students and taxpayers" means.
I called the Ombudsman about not being able to get any type of pay history or calculation of how the loans accumulated for three years and she basically said I doubt that happened you need to call them back. Them being my loan processor.
madeup64
(257 posts)I can't imagine there will be even one state that does not have budget issues. There is absolutely no way that costs per student won't go up just due to implementing whatever measures schools implement. So it's certainly reassuring to see that was not mentioned whatsoever.
Yeah schools open fully and here's 25% less money to do it!
Going to be a lot of angry parents come late August early September when public education ends up being online a lot more then people seem to think it will be.
calimary
(81,434 posts)I, too, am looking forward to seeing Betsy-baby go back to AmwayWorld. That wretched woman and everybody else in that God-forsaken "Cabinet."
OUT, people.
There's the door.
OUT ya go.
Clean sweep!!!
madeup64
(257 posts)I am really looking forward to saying 'The two Democratic Senators from Arizona." In 2016 if someone would have told me we would be saying that in 2020 I would have laughed.