Author of
#HostagesNoMore
. Passionate about quality education for children and an advocate of education freedom. Tweets from Betsy are signed "-Betsy."
Today the
@JoeBiden
administration finalized its radical re-write of
#TitleIX
. I never thought I’d see the day where Title IX would be used to harm women, but sadly, that day has come.
🧵
... says the guy who needlessly kept schools closed for nearly two years, because the union bosses made him.
Putting parents in charge of education decisions wouldn't "destroy" public education. It would protect students from politicians like you.
3 key things that are true:
1⃣ This is 100% illegal.
2⃣ This is unfair to everyone who paid their loan or never took one out.
3⃣ This doesn't fix anything. College tuition will keep rising, and students will keep taking on debt.
Your kids were the "price of peace" between
@JoeBiden
and
@rweingarten
.
This is a scandal as big as any Biden is engulfed in, and it should be treated as such. He put a generation of American students at risk to avoid conflict with a major political donor.
You just gave $715 million to a Chinese company,
@gretchenwhitmer
.
You're darn right I think we should give disadvantaged Michigan families $500 million to pick the best school for their kids!
I’ve always said education freedom is a “when” not an “if.” Its enactment is inevitable because it’s a policy so obviously better for students and families.
🧵...
Oh, Randi. Where to begin?!
- you strong-armed the
@CDCgov
& districts to keep schools closed
- you passed resolutions affirming CRT & radical gender theory, not the "basics"
- you are orchestrating strikes nationwide, which will cause further learning loss
You are the problem.
Thankfully after two years of disruption from a pandemic that killed more than 1 mil Americans, schools are already working on helping kids recover and thrive. This is a year to accelerate learning by rebuilding relationships, focusing on the basics
A DC area elementary school — Montgomery County, Maryland — is reinstating a mask mandate — N95’s — for third graders over a few kids testing positive for covid. Here’s the letter. They’re coming with masks for your kids again. Get ready. Read this insanity.
Gov.
@SarahHuckabee
continues to deliver! This transformational plan will bring
#EducationFreedom
to EVERY student in Arkansas, improve outcomes, reward great teachers, and so much more. Let's get it done!
.
@michaeljknowles
gets it: the school unions have been exposed, and parents are done having their kids held hostage to the union bosses radical agenda!
via
@realDailyWire
:
It's horrifying that
@POTUS
@JoeBiden
has used
#TitleIX
- a law passed solely to help women - to instead harm women.
And it doesn't stop there. It attacks due process, free speech and so much more.
Glad to join
@SchmittNYC
on
@NEWSMAX
to discuss.
Really,
@donlemon
? "That's how it should be"? Only those who can afford to - like you and
@smerconish
- get to send their kids to better schools, while the poor are just trapped in low-performing government schools? How "progressive" of you!
Happy 44th birthday ED!
On October 17, 1979, President Carter signed the Department of Education Organization Act into law, officially creating the U.S. Department of Education. Today, we're still working for our nation's students, teachers, parents, & school communities.
Our students' educational resources should not depend on where they live or how they look. It’s on us to make sure every student is given the right to an equitable and rich education.
Horace Mann, the founder of America's government-run education system, said parents are to be looked upon as having given "hostages to our cause."
Today, the school unions are holding our students hostage to their political agendas.
It's time to make our kids
#HostagesNoMore
!
"Our schools are decaying and rotting from the inside, and we all know it."-
@glennbeck
goes in depth on just how bad our public school system is failing kids.
'Glenn TV' w/
@glennbeck
Revealing moment at White House briefing by Covid coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha and WH spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre. Answered all Covid questions until this one...
"The Biden administration said that its promotion of the radical [critical race theory] group...was an 'error.'"
It's not called an "error" -- it's called getting caught.
Today is the final vote on the boldest education reform in America.
It's time to empower parents with universal school choice, recruit and reward great teachers with higher pay, and educate, not indoctrinate, our kids.
We will lead the nation and give hope to a new generation.
Glad to hear
@SecCardona
changed his mind and agrees girls shouldn't have to shower with boys at school. Now time to take the next step and rescind their disastrous
#TitleIX
regulation that would require schools to allow boys in the girls locker room.
Today, I confronted Biden's Education Secretary over policies permitting men in girls' restrooms and locker rooms. I proudly advocated for the girls at Waterloo High School in Illinois and pushed the Secretary to backtrack on forcing our daughters to shower with men at school.
We must resist the temptation to return to systems that were not serving all students well. We must fight complacency with the same urgency we fought COVID for the last few years because lives depend on it.
I think every kid, in every zip code, in every state should have access to every education opportunity possible.
I guess, for some, that isn’t the consensus view.
Education decisions should be made at the MOST local level: the family.
Our plan returned as much money and control to states, localities, and families as possible:
Former Secretary of Education
@BetsyDeVos
tells me she had a plan to ABOLISH the Department of Education and return the power to parents, but Congress wasn't interested: "Bottom line, there was no action taken. But there IS a way to shut down the Department."
💯
@karol
:
"Every Democrat who listened to Weingarten as if she were some kind of authority and not just a thug using a calamity to collect riches for her members should be held responsible Tuesday."
Students' knowledge of U.S. history is at an all-time low. This is what you get when you teach
#CRT
, DEI & the 1619 Project instead of the Declaration of Independence, the
#Constitution
& the Gettysburg Address.
@SandraSmithFox
@AmericaRpts
@FoxNews
There is simply no excuse for a violent mob attacking
@Riley_Gaines_
. These radicals will stop at nothing to try and silence the voices demanding common sense prevail. But Riley is right: we will
#ProtectTitleIX
and
#SaveWomensSports
. Woke won't win!
🚨 EXCLUSIVE FROM RILEY GAINES: "I was hit in the face by a man dressed as a woman and threatened by a racist mob for daring to speak out against an extreme trans movement erasing female athletes like me... But I refuse to be silenced!"
@Riley_Gaines_
The new data on students' knowledge of history and civics is abysmal. There's no other way to describe it. These are the lowest scores ever recorded:
➡️13% are proficient in U.S. history
➡️20% are proficient in civics
What's happening in Illinois is despicable!
School union boss
@stacydavisgates
won't send her own kids to the failing & unsafe government schools ... but she's happy to force these precious children, who have been given the opportunity to learn and succeed in new environments…
🚨BREAKING: Students from low-income families again swarmed into the Illinois state capitol.
They're chanting, "Save our scholarships!"
Lawmakers are deciding whether to kill or extend Illinois' school choice scholarship program:
The Invest in Kids Act.
They aren't teachers unions. They're school unions.
They don't advocate for teachers, students or families. They advocate for the system and for their power.
School closures broke the education system. 3 years later, kids have not recovered, and many districts are in free fall.
As a former public school teacher, I saw first-hand how the union’s actions created this disaster. My latest for
@tabletmag
Bravo
@GovRonDeSantis
! More than 60,000 more Sunshine State students will now have the opportunity to learn in the ways and places that work best for them. Florida continues to lead the way funding students, not systems!
Today in Hialeah, I signed HB 7045 into law, which creates more opportunities and flexibility in both schooling and educational services for millions of low-income scholarship families as well as students with unique abilities.
The Biden Administration’s radical rewrite of Title IX guts the half century of protections and opportunities for women and callously replaces them with radical gender theory, as Biden’s far-left political base demanded.
Also, Michigan spends $20 BILLION each year on K-12 government schools, many of which aren't a good fit for the students assigned to them.
$500 Million to fund students directly is 2.5% of that.
I believe in students, and I trust parents. Why don't you,
@gretchenwhitmer
?
👏👏👏
A major, major win for kids and families in Arizona. Congratulations to Gov.
@DougDucey
and all the legislative leaders for putting students first!
📚SIGNED: THE MOST EXPANSIVE SCHOOL CHOICE LEGISLATION IN THE NATION📚
This is a monumental moment for all of Arizona’s students. Our kids will no longer be locked in under-performing schools. 1/
Too many of our schools have become failure factories—where violence is common and learning is rare.
Parents should be allowed to take their children out of failing schools and send them to schools that will help them thrive.
#TitleIX
was passed more than 50 years ago, and its sole purpose was to give women equal opportunities. With this Biden rewrite, it really does turn the tables and position the law to actually harm women.
This regulation is an assault on women and girls. It makes it a federal requirement that boys be allowed in girls bathrooms in elementary schools. It makes it a federal requirement that men be allowed to play women’s sports, putting their safety, privacy and competitive…
The school unions can only outrun the truth for so long. They kept schools closed for far too long, causing all kids to suffer, most of all poor kids. And it had nothing to do with health, only politics... as
@rweingarten
admitted at the time.
Today’s action of getting student loan debt relief to borrowers is about opportunity. It’s about giving people a fair shot.
It’s about making sure folks have the breathing room they need to buy a house, open a business, start a family, and save for their future.
I want to make sure every single kid—no matter their zip code—has access to the best education that fits their needs.
That’s why it’s so important that parents have a choice!
Nothing to see here... just three friendly Socialists discussing how the state can further take control of your kids.
#EducationFreedom
#HostagesNoMore
TONIGHT: Tune in at 7:15 p.m. ET for a livestreamed town hall on the teacher pay crisis in America. I will be joined by NEA President
@BeckyPringle
and AFT President
@rweingarten
, among other educators and teachers.
A strong choice! What a contrast:
@SarahHuckabee
reminding America we must put students first and that
#ParentsMatter
, versus
@POTUS
big school unions-first message.
I’m honored to have the opportunity to address the nation after the State of the Union on Tuesday.
What America needs – and what Republicans are offering – is a return to common sense and a commitment to the ideals that made America the land of the free and home of the brave.
President Biden believes a college education is a ticket to the middle class. Today’s announcement on student debt relief delivers on that promise.
Learn more:
COMMON SENSE PREVAILS
Everyone knew the debt scheme was illegal, including
@POTUS
@JoeBiden
, who said so during the campaign and early in his presidency. Today, the Supreme Court simply agreed. The President cannot spend taxpayer money without Congressional approval.
This ploy…
Former Secretary of Education
@BetsyDeVos
tells me just how "synonymous" the teachers unions have become with the Democrat Party: "99.7% of all the political funds contributed go DIRECTLY to Democrat candidates or officeholders."
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona:
"I think it was President Reagan who said, 'We're from the government. We're here to help!'"
Here's the actual quote:
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."
When we changed the Work-Study rules to allow students to get paid for off-campus jobs related to their degree (instead of working in the dorm cafeteria), Democrats howled.
Today they'll use Work-Study to help fund liberal nonprofits trying to keep them in power - all without…
Another smart move by
@GovernorVA
@GlennYoungkin
! There is no valid reason for blanket degree requirements, which are a big part of why the cost of college just keeps going up.
Importantly, this regulation also seeks to u-turn to the bad old days where sexual misconduct was sent to campus kangaroo courts, not resolved in a way that actually sought justice. It restores the so-called “single investigator” model, where the same campus
#DEI
bureaucrat is…
America's big school union bosses:
❌Ignoring the 53 Illinois schools where no students are at grade level
✅Protesting out-of-state politicians to advance their woke agenda
This is a regulation no one needed and very few wanted. Our rule, the current one, was working well. By contrast, the Obama-Biden rules I inherited drew bipartisan outrage about the horrors they were creating on campuses, and the courts were routinely having to intervene. None…
Our schools do not run without Local 99.
Our solidarity must be visible. Our solidarity must be public. That means being on a picket line every day of the strike.
This is how we show our power. THIS IS HOW WE WIN. ✊
"Enough is enough. Detroit public schools are slated to spend > $26,000 per student this school year...Michigan’s average private school tuition is roughly 1/4 of that amount ($7,233 per student in 2022). That money should go directly to families..."
... and a real kick in the teeth to the 8.6 million Michiganders who don't have loans (especially those who faithfully paid theirs back) and just got handed the bill.
As if the rising cost of gas and groceries wasn't enough of an insult.
The decision to cancel $10,000 in student loan debt and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients will make a real difference for 1.4 million Michiganders that have student loans. Putting money back in their pockets and lifting a huge burden off their backs.
🚨 SMOKING GUN: Whistleblowers reveal the FBI has labeled dozens of investigations into parents with a threat tag created by the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division
“Let me be perfectly clear: a school that knowingly allows a male athlete to take a spot on a women’s team, or allows a male athlete to take the field in a woman’s game, is denying a female student an athletic opportunity.
“It is my sincere hope that members of this committee…
Not a single student can do math at grade level in 53
#Illinois
schools. For reading, it’s 30 schools. Not 1 single student. Education data from
@ISBEnews
It's yet another indictment of the state’s educational system. Via
@Wirepoints
#twill
#SchoolChoice
…