Betsy DeVos (cc photo: Keith A. Almli/Wikimedia)
This week on CounterSpin: Betsy DeVos’s website describes her as a “disruptor.” Now that she’s confirmed as Education secretary, what calls for disruption is the set of myths that carried her through, despite an evident lack of experience or expertise. Myths to do with “school choice” and “accountability,” which corporate media rarely interrogate thoroughly, or contrast with different visions of education. We’ll talk about that with Kevin Kumashiro, former dean of education at the University of San Francisco, and founder of Education Deans for Justice and Equity.
Transcript: ‘School Choice is Not Serving the Most Disenfranchised’
Sean Spicer (image: SNL)
Also on the program: The new lawsuit Public Citizen v. Trump stems from the administration’s executive order requiring federal agencies to eliminate two regulations for every new one they institute. Press secretary Sean Spicer says the suit “presumes a lot of outcomes that are wildly inaccurate.” Our guest says it presumes outcomes that are not only predictable, but that reflect the order’s actual intention. Amit Narang is regulatory policy advocate at Public Citizen’s Congress Watch.
Transcript: ‘Trump Wants to Take an Axe to the Regulatory State’
It is a media myth that the public school monopoly is accountable to parents of students. It does not take an experienced and expert public school stooge to discern that.
One definition of expert is the public school specialist who learns more and more about less and less until learning all there is to know about nothing.
Image is misidentified. Caption should read, “Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer”
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