elsewhere despite what some may try to tell you, education freedom scholarships are privately funded and do not take any money from public schools. we know that there are parents and students that are doing things differently in a number of states. we need more parents to be able to access those opportunities, more students to find that right fit. think of kids going to school with their backpacks and think about the funds for that child, for that child s education traveling with them in that backpack to whatever education environment they and their parents figure out is the best one for them. bret: on the statement that it does not take from public school funding, the washington post said that was three pinocchios you are giving tax credits which take 5 billion plus from the treasurely at the same time you have cut your education budget by more than $8 billion. so they are saying net, net you are taking away from public funding. actually, the department of education s budget h
they invited us in. we got to speak with four parents. let me set the sustacene for yo. one had child in public school, two in charter schools and one in a religious school. they feel enormously passionate about what s happening in our education environment right now. listen to what they had to say about what they think is going on as far as education is concerned. a show of hands, are you optimistic that something new and better is on the horizon for public education in this country? no. not one of you would raise your hand? the federal government? yes. no. no. you don t think whoever the new secretary of education is going to be is going to come with a package of new ideas and new prospects of hope? it s always a promise that it will change and that things will get better. yet, it stays the same. when you hear the name betsy devos, claudia, what do you
if it s cold, that line to get in the school, will be out the door. so no, i don t agree. the any of you have friends have guns or arm themselves to feel safe? no, not at all. so this notion that the gun is the solution is not true? not at all. so what makes you feel safe at school? personally, my school is not so much an education environment, it s more like a prison environment, like dennis said. i have a clear plastic backpack, i have to put it on a conveyor belt, walk through a metal detector, get searched, all of that. and that in itself does not make me feel safe in school, even though it is a safety measure, it makes me feel like i m going into a prison rather than somewhere that i should love to be, somewhere like a school.
years. here he is talking about it in 2011. indiana set up a system where on one rail of the track you have a more competitive education environment. more charters. the nation s most expansive voucher program. more accountability on voucher receiving schools and charter schools. then on the other rail of the track, we said let s help our public schools compete with the other rail. so we relieve collective bargaining restraints. we improved teacher quality by focusing evaluations on student growth and performance. so they can compete and they can meet the state s very rigorous accountability standards. very rigorous accountability standards, except for the school of a major donor. right, that he s made a commitle to. it s almost like he said i know a good school when i see it and, therefore, the system has to change but the grand irony of that is every teacher i ve ever
as mr. accountability. i love that. here he is talking about i want to play this tape of him talking. accountability is, of course, the watch word of all of the sort of school reform movement we ve seen over the last 10, 20 years. here he is talking about it in 2011. indiana set up a system where on one rail of the track you have a more competitive education environment. more charters. the nation s most expansive voucher program. more accountability on voucher receiving schools and charter schools. then on the other rail of the track, we said let s help our public schools compete with the other rail. so we relieve collective bargaining restraints. we improved teacher quality by focusing evaluations on student growth and performance. so they can compete and they can meet the state s very rigorous accountability standards. very rigorous accountability standards, except for the school