So, CITIZENS UNITED allows billion-dollar corporations to make large campaign contributions to politicians,
then, when it's time for the politicians to return the "favor",
they get to put anyone they like into the top jobs.
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I heard the Democrats shot themselves in the foot by changing the rules 8 years ago to say that only 50 votes are required to confirm a Cabinet member, not 60 as it once was.
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I've seen the other arguments.
No Child Left Behind and Common Core "aren't working" --- America is still Number 25 in Math and Science and that's pretty far from Number One --- so they have to try SOMETHING new.
I understand that in order to ensure there will be more actual Christians in the future --- people who say they "believe in God" and actually MEAN it --- they need to manufacture them in the schools, now. This move guarantees the prolonged life of the Religious Right. They now get to use schools as American madrassas, to crank out Bible-thumpers!
Lots of Democratic inquisitors, picking on DeVos for not fully articulating her strategy on Proficiency vs. Growth. But this is just Day Zero, she's only starting this job now. She does support accountability, so that's good.
Still, top educators have probably spent the past seven or eight years debating and thinking about the proficiency vs. growth debate, and what it means. And they all want bigger budgets, so Federal funding is definitely an INCENTIVE.
The most important question: Is our children learning?
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