Tag: Betsy Devos

Former contributor and long time friend of Blogging Blue, Folkbum (aka Jay Bullock), is applying for a new gig: Hey, Jay! If you need a letter of recommendation let me know!

It seems to me we are seeing a stark dichotomy here around home schooling. I am not weighing in on whether schools should re-open or not. I am going to defer to the local school officials and parents…they need to determine what is safe and when it is safe based…

…of schools reopening, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany says. “The science should not stand in the way of this,” she added, saying it is “perfectly safe” to fully reopen all classrooms. I do understand the financial burden of keeping businesses closed. I do understand the issues surrounding opening schools….

As is often the case, a president giving his (because there aren’t any women yet…sigh) State of the Union address features Americans in the gallery that represent the policies and programs that they espouse. Such was the case with President Trump’s speech this past Tuesday. And no, I am not…

President Donald Trump has stated time and again that there is no room for Socialism in the United States. And his GOP apologists have continued to trumpet that statement up and down the breadth of the United States. Meanwhile, the rest of us enjoy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Interstate highways,…

We are disappointed that the federal deficit means cutting funding for the Special Olympics…but I love them…so my foundation will provide the $17.6 million dollars to fund it in the next fiscal year. But she didn’t… By the way…the federal government contribution to the Special Olympics accounts for only 10%…

In his rush to show activity in his first 100 days (something that he cares about far more than the rest of us), President Trump signed an executive order giving Education Secretary Betsy DeVos 300 days to reverse the overreach of the federal government into K-12 education. President Donald Trump…

Yesterday I endorsed incumbent Tony Evers for the Superintendent of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. He is a true friend of public schools and will be an effective counter balance to President Trump’s Secretary of Education, Betsy Devos. But two of his opponents, despite actually being educators, continue to…