{"id":1129,"date":"2017-01-18T12:58:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2017-01-18T12:58:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:58:24","slug":"political-quickie-take-5mins-to-call-yr-senators-about-betsy-devos-now-thx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/01\/political-quickie-take-5mins-to-call-yr-senators-about-betsy-devos-now-thx\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Quickie: Take 5mins to Call yr Senators about Betsy DeVos NOW! Thx!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/answer-sheet\/wp\/2017\/01\/18\/six-astonishing-things-betsy-devos-said-and-refused-to-say-at-her-confirmation-hearing\/?utm_term=.f5ee4f1ea44b&amp;wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&amp;wpmm=1\">Six astonishing things Betsy DeVos said \u2014 and refused to say \u2014 at her confirmation hearing<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This article is just one example, but the gist of it is this: Betsy DeVos\u00a0is not qualified to be the U.S.Secretary\u00a0of Education. She is actively antagonistic to the project of public education, and has been for decades. Based on her performance in this hearing, she knows next to nothing about modern educational theory and practice, or the legal framework surrounding\u00a0these.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a lifelong Michigander \u2013 just like DeVos \u2013 and let me tell you, as far as we can tell her entire project is to\u00a0shuffle public dollars out of public schools and into private religious (i.e., Christian) schools (which are not obliged to accept all comers, accommodate all students, respect religious or philosophical differences, or meet most\u00a0accountability standards).<\/p>\n<p>Skim the article, find whichever pobit\u00a0is most offensive to you, then call your senators. Please.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t have their numbers handy (or know their names even)? \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/members\/map\">Look it up<\/a>\u00a0by address or <strong>text your zip code to <i>(520) 200-2223<\/i>\u00a0and a robot will send you their numbers instantly<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>My son\u00a0is one of the 6.5 million U.S. school kids who receives special services from the public education system. That&#8217;s ~13% of all school kids. Please take 5 minutes, leave a couple messages, and make sure my boy\u00a0can keep getting the very mild accommodations he\u00a0needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six astonishing things Betsy DeVos said \u2014 and refused to say \u2014 at her confirmation hearing This article is just one example, but the gist of it is this: Betsy DeVos\u00a0is not qualified to be the U.S.Secretary\u00a0of Education. She is actively antagonistic to the project of public education, and has been for decades. Based on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/01\/political-quickie-take-5mins-to-call-yr-senators-about-betsy-devos-now-thx\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Political Quickie: Take 5mins to Call yr Senators about Betsy DeVos NOW! Thx!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[75],"tags":[53],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}