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ORIGINAL: RottenJohnny Having grown up in the Grand Rapids area, I spent my life watching the DeVos and VanAndel families use their Amway money to constantly manipulate pretty much everything that goes on in the city. Sometimes it worked out well. Other times, not so much. After a while, you just get sick and tired of even hearing their names. Personally, I'm skeptical about Betsy being the right person for education secretary. Her track record in Michigan isn't without it's errors. http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/12/betsy_devoss_michigan_legacy.html The gist of the article is, more charter schools, results for children from poorer family goes down. That's interesting. I actually still do not fully understand this whole common core, non-common core stuffs, or charter or public stuffs. I mean, I assume public or common cores means following a strict government lead educational program? While charter is almost like private school where they do things their way? For my country, the worst schools are public, the best schools are also public. So to be anti-charter is to micro-manage the school syllabus and how they run their education program and standardise it for everyone across the country? While what she wants is not to interfere with individual schools and just let them do whatever and compete by trying to producing best results? I still don't quite get exactly what are charter schools. And how are they different from Public? What makes a student perform poorer in charter schools? Common core standards are state intitiatives, the federal government does not deal with common core or other state education. States rights and all that. The micromanaging of the school syllabus and the wrecking of the original republican policy, initiative, funding, and laws that gave us public education is a nutsucker offensive.
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