This is from Forbes:
The education task force is co-chaired by Representative Marcia Fudge (D-OH) and Heather Gautney, Ph.D. Fudge serves on the House Committee on Education and Labor and is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Dr. Gautney is a professor at Fordham University and was a senior policy advisor to Sanders’s presidential campaign. She previously served as an advisor in Sanders’s Senate office.
The other members of the task force are:
- Alejandro Adler, Ph.D. — a professor at Columbia University who focuses on student well-being.
- Lily Eskelsen Garcia — president of the influential teachers’ union, the National Education Association.
- Maggie Thompson — former executive director of Generation Progress, who focuses on student debt.
- Christina Vilsack — a librarian, a literacy advocate, and former First Lady of Iowa.
- Randi Weingarten — president of the influential teachers’ union, the American Federation of Teachers.
- Hirokazu Yoshikawa — a professor at New York University who studies the impact of policy on immigration, early childhood, and poverty reduction on children’s development.
I think we could do worse than this with NEA's Lili Eskelsen Garcia and AFT's Randi Weingarten along with some other names that aren't charter school zealots. The anti-union 74 is not happy with the picks, particularly with Dr. Heather Gautney. The op-ed she co-wrote during the primary campaign attacking Biden's education record is worth the read. Now Gautney is joining team Bernie-Biden unity as is AOC as co-chair with John Kerry on the climate change task force. This is certainly more hopeful than Governor Cuomo's reimagining education group for NY. My guess is you will see a totally different Randi at the federal task force.
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They’re going to pull Biden, something - sexual or otherwise - more from the Dems than Repubs. Dems can’t win with him. He won’t be on the ballot in November.
What do you expect from corrupt. senile Joe Biden?
Biden put together a much better education task force than Cuomo. That is obvious.
Biden can’t tell his sister from his wife. He’s also running for Senate and his wife is ‘the husband of Joe’. So who’s making his education policies? It matters.
waaaiiittt--biden just tapped aoc as a like science advisor, or, like, i mean, you know...
all will be well now!
when you have to pander to the most fringe of your socialist base, you gotta problem more than quid pro, joe.
Biden's gotta give the Bernie crowd something. The MAGA please hit me I'm stupid folks who write some of the comments here do not have to be pandered to by Democrats.
Who cares? Meaningless.
Unions don't need this group either. They can't even convince people in their own schools that Mulgrew's shitty contracts suck. Let them join the anti-union Koch crap. Nobody listens to them for good reason.
New Chice NY is a Koch funded anri-union astro turf group. The two or three who comment here are probably on their payroll. If they are not, they should be.
One of the most reliable Republican voting blocs in the country is seniors—but newly released polling shows that Donald Trump's botched coronavirus response may cause that support to crumble under his feet.
These stunning new polls show that just between March and April, Trump's approval rating among seniors dropped a whopping 14 points, and notably, the percentage of seniors who say they are "very favorable" to Trump has dropped to just 20%, the lowest of his presidency.1
This shift could not be more important. In 2016, voters over age 50 represented more than half of the electorate, and the majority of these voters voted for Trump.2 If he loses a significant portion of that support, it will be the death knell for his campaign.
I’m not sure how trustworthy weingarten is.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t she for merit pay?
What's in Pelosi's $3 trillion "Coronavirus Relief" bill?
– Checks to illegal immigrants
– Mail-in/No-ID voting mandates
– Release of many prisoners
– Tax cuts for blue-state millionaires
– Diversity studies of the marijuana industry
Just another liberal wish list. What a joke.
Randi will stick her finger in the air, see the way the wind is blowing, and move that way. She will follow the lead of others here. They are way to the left on the federal compared to the state.
A little more is in the Pelosi bill
The HEROES Act would extend the unemployment measures from the first stimulus package, including extending the extra $600 weekly federal unemployment benefit through January 2021 instead of July 2020, and providing unemployment benefits to gig workers, independent contractors, part-time workers and the self-employed through March 2021, rather than the end of 2020.
Additionally, the bill would establish a $200 billion "Heroes' Fund" to provide hazard pay to some essential workers. It would also extend the payment pause on federal student loans as well as provide forgiveness of up to $10,000 for bo
So why all the add-ons?
UFT? Mitchell Katz, head of NYC’s public hospitals, opposed shutting down city in March, telling De Blasio: “The good thing is greater than 99 percent will recover without harm.” Now
@NYCMayor
has put him in charge of Virus Response
I think all of us can agree that de BlahBlah is completely incompetent.
To bail out the 30 million unemployed a little.
https://youtu.be/rNh0t5tRxA0
Watch this. Don't forget the lobbyist bailout in the Pelosi giveaway.
do it without the pork
You think we have self-serving moronic politicians here in NY? Check out Marcia Fudge. Yikes.
No pork, no politics. They all gotta take care of their donors.
Go Randi! Go Randi!
1013,
Why are you pro-weingarten? What has she done to make teaching in NYC better?
I’ll wait.
Randi kept our core values and under her salary went from $70,000 to $100,000 in 6 years.
From the NY Times today. Yeah we're better off under Democrats you MAGAs.
DeVos Funnels Coronavirus Relief Funds to Favored Private and Religious Schools
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, using discretion written into the coronavirus stabilization law, is using millions of dollars to pursue long-sought policy goals that Congress has blocked.
Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, has issued guidance directing school districts to increase the share of dollars they spend on serving students in private schools.
Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, has issued guidance directing school districts to increase the share of dollars they spend on serving students in private schools.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Erica L. Green
By Erica L. Green
May 15, 2020
Updated 7:22 a.m. ET
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WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is using the $2 trillion coronavirus stabilization law to throw a lifeline to education sectors she has long championed, directing millions of federal dollars intended primarily for public schools and colleges to private and religious schools.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, signed in late March, included $30 billion for education institutions turned upside down by the pandemic shutdowns, about $14 billion for higher education, $13.5 billion to elementary and secondary schools, and the rest for state governments.
Ms. DeVos has used $180 million of those dollars to encourage states to create “microgrants” that parents of elementary and secondary school students can use to pay for educational services, including private school tuition. She has directed school districts to share millions of dollars designated for low-income students with wealthy private schools.
And she has nearly depleted the 2.5 percent of higher education funding, about $350 million, set aside for struggling colleges to bolster small colleges — many of them private, religious or on the margins of higher education — regardless of need. The Wright Graduate University for the Realization of Human Potential, a private college in Wisconsin that has a website debunking claims that it is a cult, received about $495,000.
UFT???
NYC schools issued 19.8% fewer suspensions between July-December 2019 than during the same period in 2018, new data show
Overall, suspensions are down by over *50%* since de Blasio took office
Either students behavior got amazingly better asap or the numbers are fake...
1136,
Core values and weingarten? She was for merit pay which would have divided teachers and the reason salaries went up was bc Bloomberg wanted to win an election, so she sold the 05 contract which was the worst contract we have had. It created the ATR and then fsf came in.
So, I ask again,”why weingarten?”
McCarthy
@GOPLeader
Police cars revolving light BREAKING Police cars revolving light Democrat lawmakers just passed a loophole that allows them to keep getting paid, even if they don't show up for work.
That's not how life works for most Americans. Nancy Pelosi's socialist-democrats are totally out of touch.
Nancy Pelosi socialist? She's a crony capitalist like the rest of them.
We get screwed by republicans and democrats. Randi Weingarten was and always will be a sell out pos. That salary increase doesn't mean shit to me Because of the abuse perpetrated by psycho admin nistratorsRandi, mulgrew etc ignore. Teachers are abused daily and randi and mulgrew don't do shit except pump up the Democratic Party who hasn't done shit for middle class. Democrats sent us into unsafe schools in NYC. only because mulgrew feared a teacher revolt did he start to speak about it. Couldn't even roar....just a mousy squeak.
How many teachers who have tenured were fired last year? Maybe a couple of hundred. You allow yourself to be intimidated. Randi's a problem as is Mulgrew. We are a bigger problem.
I know with my raise I can finally buy that rolling pin I've always wanted. LOL.
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