Education Class Activity by Diana Azam https://padlet.com/azam_d7410/yea0y2146tg5 en-us 2017-01-24 02:43:14 UTC 2025-11-03 07:04:26 UTC hello@padlet.com What is ESSA? azam_d7410 https://padlet.com/azam_d7410/yea0y2146tg5/wish/148908851 ESSA is a revision of the No Child Left Behind Act that bring the power back to the states instead of the federal government. ESSA gives the states the power to create the standards for schools to achieve to receive funding while requiring that ALL students, including disadvantaged and high-need students receive equal rights and opportunities. ]]> 2017-01-24 02:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/azam_d7410/yea0y2146tg5/wish/148908851 https://padlet.com/azam_d7410/yea0y2146tg5/wish/148909072 2017-01-24 02:55:24 UTC https://padlet.com/azam_d7410/yea0y2146tg5/wish/148909072 "A Michigan billionaire, DeVos has lobbied for decades to expand charter schools and taxpayer-funded vouchers for private and religious schools, but she has no professional experience in public schools, never attended public schools or sent her own children to public schools. She also has not held public office. " https://padlet.com/azam_d7410/yea0y2146tg5/wish/148909725 Betsy DeVos is not credible to be President Donald Trump’s education nominee due to her lack of experience in public office as well as her lack of experience working with children in public schools. ]]> 2017-01-24 03:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/azam_d7410/yea0y2146tg5/wish/148909725 "DeVos said states should decide whether schools should be required to meet those special-education requirements.“So some states might be good to kids with disabilities, and other states might not be so good, and then what, people can just move around the country if they don’t like how their kids are being treated?” Kaine said. https://padlet.com/azam_d7410/yea0y2146tg5/wish/148910065 Betsy's lack of knowledge is shown when she lets the state and federal government decide whether or not schools are required to meet requirements. Betsy DeVos seems to not understand the " Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" that limits the state involvement in this matter.  ]]> 2017-01-24 03:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/azam_d7410/yea0y2146tg5/wish/148910065 In "Betsy DeVos, Trump’s education pick, lauded as bold reformer, called unfit for job" by Emma Brown, Danielle Douglas-Gabriel and Moriah Balingit use Betsy DeVos's lack of knowledge of federal and state powers in education and lack of background in any public education or running trillion dollar federal programs to prove she is unqualified to be the education pick for Trump's administration. azam_d7410 https://padlet.com/azam_d7410/yea0y2146tg5/wish/148910252 2017-01-24 03:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/azam_d7410/yea0y2146tg5/wish/148910252 Diana Azam, Marcela Mercado, Bre Sumner azam_d7410 https://padlet.com/azam_d7410/yea0y2146tg5/wish/148911079 2017-01-24 03:25:30 UTC https://padlet.com/azam_d7410/yea0y2146tg5/wish/148911079