Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has unveiled a comprehensive 10-point education policy plan, calling for the end of for-profit charter schools and a ban on for-profit charter schools. The plan includes $5 billion in annual funding for community schools to provide a holistic approach to learning and more services such as job opportunities. As president, Sanders would support a ban on for-profit charter schools and a blanket moratorium on public funding for all. He also plans to pass the College for All Act, which would provide at least $48 billion per year to eliminate tuition and fees at four-year public colleges and universities, tribal colleges, community colleges, trade schools, and apprenticeships.
Sanders’ education policy proposals include guaranteeing universal childcare and pre-kindergarten, expanding access to tuition-free public college and vocational education, and ending the unaccountable profit-motive of charter schools. To combat disparities in education funding, Sanders proposes large new investments in programs that serve high-poverty communities. Key points of his plan include combating racial discrimination and school segregation, ending the unaccountable profit-motive of charter schools, providing equitable funding for public institutions, and guaranteeing tuition and debt-free public colleges, universities, HBCUs, Minority Serving Institutions, and trade schools to all.
Sanders also met with approximately 300 Vermont high school students to discuss job training and career opportunities. He believes that the United States should focus on child care, early education, and family leave, and that it is long past time for the United States to address these issues.
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how dare anyone say this man isnt the best candidate period. bernie is the FDR of 2020, but hes EVEN MORE principled than he was. i feel bernie would never firebomb japan or do internment of their people. its time to stand up and say that these people are the worst mankind has to offer, so lets give them our best.
After unveiling this, I’ll call him daddy. I’ve taught in just about every kind of education system that you can think of. Poor kids. Rich kids. High school. Elementary school elementary school. Public. Charter. Private. College. Self-employed. After school programs. If you can get any facet of this bill passed, I will weep tears of joy. I hope this secure is him the boat of every teacher in our public School systems across the Nation. He damn well just earned them.
If you watched Michael Moore ‘Where to invade next?’ it totally shows how Europe has advanced way more than Americans. Schools have better lunches, education, even proper lunch breaks for the working people. Where in America it’s usually 30 mins. Europeans have Better jobs, vacation time etc. America isn’t the greatest country in the world until you have all these things first.
This a brilliant strategy on two fronts: 1. Bernie has taken a step to the left to distinguish himself from the rest of the field. 2. Each and everyone of these seemingly revolutionary ideas can be defended with logic, fiscal responsibility and an appeal to common sense. for Example: How can the North American continent’s most significant producer of food not give its children a guaranteed lunch? Especially when it is considered that something as simple as a school lunch is easily the most cost effective way to improve overall student achievement. Anyone who wants to argue against this is immediately cast as a villain, or at the very least uninformed…truly brilliant.
As Denzel Washington would say: My man. This is what I’ve been waiting for. We all know about Bernie’s calls for tuition-free post-secondary education, but one issue I privately criticised him on was the seeming lack of focus on K-12. Free college is nice and all, but what black communities need is a commitment to restoring the public education system. I was hoping to hear him propose a significant roll-back on charter schools – instead he straight up wants to ban them. Love the way this guy’s mind works. Every black person who gives a damn should be paying attention to this issue and demanding to know what the other candidates’ positions are on it.
Every school large enough should have a student operated food program. Learning a good work ethic is just as important as history. High school level programs could even operate a catering business for the school and all of its functions. Operate the damn thing like a non profit. Manager experience for those students who want it.
Here in Brazil schools meals are free for the students, and this is really important specially because some of those kids are extremely poor, and the school meal can be the only meal they get in a day. The truly tragic thing is, is that greed knows no bounds, and the embezzlement of school meal funds is the most comon form of embezzlement in small counties.
I just graduated highschool a couple days ago, having gone to a Charter school in my first 6 years of schooling I can say that even though I believe the education I got wasn’t all that bad, I didn’t feel stunted by it, it cost way more money than going to public school, our lunches were twice as much as public schools, we had to buy expensive uniforms and if you didn’t you’d be sent to the office until your parents could take you home. Charter schools are just bad for what the bottom line of our education should be, also when I entered highschool our county began a free lunch policy and I can say the past 4 years it’s been great, the only complaint anyone has is that it’s bad, but it’s free, no one really cares.
Why ban for profit charter schools if there are many that are amazing, I get some suck, but why ban them out right? Why not do a school voucher so parents can choose. Have you seen the state required exams in NJ for example it is ABSURD. I would gladly send my kid to a school that does not require those ridiculous test. Also we need to gut the corruption in school systems I know Newark, NJ is one of the worst in the country.
There’s no doubt that teachers are severely underpaid, in proportion to the stress and the importance of their jobs. So I support a federal teacher’s pay raise. However, when it comes to the lunches, Michelle Obama’s efforts were a disaster. That’s something I feel should be delegated to the state level, in accordance with local markets and grocers.
How anyone could move from Bernie to warren astounds me. Bernie’s policies are better. The big thing that made me turn away from warren (I liked her at one point) is her bad record on foreign policy. Spoke in support of considering regime change in Venezuela. Voted for trump’s military budget increase. Wants to green the military, but also uses climate change as an excuse for more military. Are you nuts? You gonna drone strike it to death? Also will not commit to avoiding corporate money in the general. Has been hawkish too many times and that’s an absolute dealbreaker in the biggest way for me.
Asking for advice: How do I explain this to my reasonably well-to-do centrist democrat friends who keep saying that Bernie Sanders is all about promising “free stuff”? Just a question… It seems like a zero-sum game. For every Black voter he may attract with this proposal he loses one of the people I am talking about. (FYI I am a strong supporter of Tulsi Gabbard, who — wisely in my opinion — has chosen to focus her campaign on saving money by getting out of the war business.)
When my dad went to college and he had to quit his job. 1 Income for the house (before then i was already unable to afford school lunch) I barely qualified, In fact I could only have 1 meal, breakfast OR lunch in high school. I bummed food off of friends if I was lucky and they didn’t just throw it away. I begged mom for cash so i could pick something up on the way to or back home. Hungry students don’t do good in school. They get bad grades, they’re very irritable, they can’t concentrate, and we as a society have the audacity to look at children and say: “There’s no such thing as a free lunch?” yeah maybe 200 years ago before the fucking industrial revolution! This should have been implemented 60 years ago; we have a lot of catching up to do.
I don’t agree with funding school lunches. Here is my letter to Sen. Sanders explaining why: Dear Senator Sanders, I oppose your proposal for universal free school meals. I do not wish my tax dollars to fund unhealthy lunches that are fueling the obesity epidemic and chronic illnesses. I do not want my tax dollars to subsidize unethical industries such as the meat industry, the dairy industry and the egg industry. I would be willing to support free whole foods-plant based vegan meals. What National School Lunch Program run by U.S. Department of Agriculture is feeding children is downright child abuse. The school lunches are heavy on animal proteins including: beef, poultry, fish, cheese, milk, yogurt, and eggs. Michael Pollan, the author of “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto”, described the situation very well, “The school lunch program in America, by and large, is a disposal system for surplus agricultural commodities. Farmers in the industrial food system grow too much of a certain product. The government buys it from them to support their prices and their welfare, and then dumps it on schools. The result is often food that is fatty, high in salt, and highly processed. Because of budgetary problems, many school cafeterias no longer have kitchens; they have giant microwaves. So, they’re utterly dependent on processed food.” To learn more about the sorry state of the American school lunch program, read: nourishlife.org/2011/03/school-lunch/ Here is another great article: foodrevolution.
All my years in the education system were spent with free healthy nutritious school meals being an obvious fact of life. The majority of it wasn’t that great in the taste department in my opinion, but it was healthy; and I never had to pay a cent for it. The time for Americans to wake up from the delusion of being a country that’s up to speed with modern standards of living is long overdue.
i am a music teacher (lowest of the low in america) and am very seriously contemplating quitting because i live in seattle and it is impossible to support myself in this area as a music teacher. i am a private music teacher so not only do i get paid dick for my level of education and experience, but i get no benefits at all from my boss. i work a retail job in addition to my teaching just to keep a roof over my head and food in the fridge. at least my retail job is unionized cause i work in seattle where private sector unions actually are still making a difference.
It’s not a fringe minority that wouldn’t support free school meals. That would be a standard and reasonable conservative policy i.e. that parents need to provide their children with food and/or a parent who can afford to feed their child shouldn’t get subsidised by others. The argument would be that the state paying for stuff like that takes responsibility away from parents and conservatives would be concerned about where that would end.
Just think how much big university coaches make compared to an average professor and see where priorities lie. Why is any university coach raking in say, $3 million and a professor makes less than $200K? Public schools are far worse. Is football or basketball worth more than engineers, architects or the teachers that teach them? Yeah, thought so.
“because those rules and regulations exist for a reason, in public schools.” Ah, Kyle. You are great making convincing cases, but as someone who works in the education field, I simply cannot accept this argument. Many rules and regulations in public schools are a function of politics (the same way it is in health care or finance), NOT a function of what would be effective educational policies.
Nice article, but you forgot to mention some of his other good policies in the plan as well, such as creating a national minimum that must be spent per pupil in order to make schools less dependent on property taxes, as well as funding special education programs by 50% and spending $5 billion on after school and summer programs.
The US also has child subnutrition, specially because people’s diet is getting worse and worse. The school, through healthy school lunches that teach kids to eat well, can become the most important choice in the fight against childhood obesity and maybe even impact the rest of household through actions in the community. That’s a good practice in place in many developed countries, in Japan they even teach kids “domestic science” (meaning they learn to cook healthy food and do house chores, both boys and girls, which can also be a push for gender equality in the distribution of household chores)
And have any of you thought about how farmers are going to provide this food? Do we have enough farmers? I’ll answer that. NO! Where’s the food going to come from? So then are we outsourcing this food…? Will it be processed food or fresh food…? Do you want your kids to eat GMOs? Cause that’s what they’re gonna eat when you want countrywide free lunches. Certainly don’t quote me, but I’m pretty sure children account for a third of the population…that’s a lot of meals each day… Come on people let’s think about the WHOLE picture! Let’s not stop thinking at the first “good” idea.
I like bouncing back and forth between Bernie and Tulsi in my preference. I think it is because, while in most politics, you get repelled away from candidates and end up with whoever repelled you least, in this case Bernie and Tulsi are each doing a good job of attracting me, which is the opposite mechanic. Other candidates this year are attractive too in some ways, but they don’t impress me as regularly and consistently as these two.
Teachers are bridges for our children to achieve in life coupled with good parenting and our masses are so poor, and that goes for our teachers, they are leaving their profession in droves because they can’t make it financially in public schools for sure. Teachers in poor school districts must deal with children who have a lot of behavioral problems due to, parents who often use drugs, sell drugs, engage in domestic violence, crime, children don’t have clothes or enough to eat, good teachers are often the only light these children see in their lives and can make a huge difference in turning a life around, there were many that turned my life around and helped shape me when I could have fallen through the cracks, when people don’t make a decent comfortable living they start leaving their jobs for others or they stay and become disheartened, angry even, and they are of no use to our society/children like that, teachers are vital to society and our societal well-being/youth…Everyone wants a better life for their children and that starts with an education to make it as an adult.
Kyle is slowly degrading to the level that the Young Turks are at now. Any time Bernie proposes an idea, Kyle praises it and never asks how Bernie is going to go about accomplishing it. Bernie has tons of amazing ideas, but how the fuck will he accomplish them? Just more and more taxes? Fine, but how much more? Campaigned for Bernie in 2015-16. Now for Tulsi 2020.
I agree completely with Bernie’s plan it’s the right thing to do and it’s totally affordable. Kyle where I do not agree with you. Is that your taxes on the federal level aren’t paying for anything. No one’s taxes on a federal level AR paying for anything. That’s not the purpose of the tax. If you agree with Bernie’s plan which I do. Then why not take a look at Professor Stephanie Kelton and mmt. Professor Kelton is Bernie’s chief economic advisor. Who wrote a white paper in 1999 absolutely proving that federal taxes don’t fund federal spending. It is operationally not possible. Professor Stephanie Kelton Bernie’s chief economic advisor learn mmt please. The sooner we kill this myth of the hard-earned taxpayer dollar. The better off we will be.
Don’t abuse the word “free”, gov-funded services shouldn’t be referred to as “free”. Also, there’s a conservative argument to be made for things like “covered” school meal in term of using tax: opting out such branches of service (given covered educations) lower the tax people have to pay. With the proposed increases in tax (understandable) due to Med4All, such argument may stand.
Bernie who has been a free loader his entire life is used to other people paying for things. To the Socialist boob and his followers “Nothing in life is free” Bernie give up your two extra houses and your congressional pension before demanding something from business people . Almost all of whom starting with the Koch brothers are far better than you.
As much as I am a huge fan of Bernie Sanders, I doubt he will get the nomination because of people seeing him as a socialist. He’s not a straight up socialist, but with fake news spreading that around too much and people buying into that, I doubt he’ll make it to the nomination. People are turned off too much by the idea of him being a socialist. But hey, if I am wrong and he does make it to the nomination and possibly win the race, then I will eat my words. But I don’t have much hope in him, nor the other candidates being labeled as socialists. (Edit: spelling error)
60K for teachers…you realize that is around the starting salary for an engineering students instead of a teaching student right? For a TON less hours worked. That Pie in the sky just keeps getting bigger and bigger…if only it were real… No, teachers are viewed as people who couldn’t hack it. Why? because if they could they would be using their skills to make and build and design, instead of teaching the basics again and again and again. Think of it in terms of wilderness survival. Who get’s paid more, the person in the blank area of the map? Or the person traveling the same route again and again and again? Barely getting by…lol, I’d love to barely get by with 3 months off, weekends, and holidays. I just can’t put up with the stupid that is keeping children entertained. In a society that made sense, teaching would be something that those of us who were field leaders for 50 years would do in our spare retirement hours. Passing on cutting edge knowledge with historical context. Not barely 20 somethings that just regurgitate what they learned in the last 3 years absent any significant lived experience nor time to actually get into their field. Look, we already know what price fixing does to markets. Price fixing teacher salary creates the same problems. Just ask Ana about her rent controlled apartment. Military, border enforcement, judges, congress, pres, maybe police…that’s about it. I don’t see why these areas that everyone needs shouldn’t be funded. We functioned fine without government school and certainly without government loans that no one can declare bankruptcy on.
Nailed it! Totally nailed that prediction! Next time I’ll be sure to include in my prediction that you’re going to give a ridiculous, exaggerated example of someone who would dare oppose bernie’s plan. “You wanna feed kids? In school? Is that what you wanna do?! Feed kids?!?!?!” Yeah, everyone wants to feed kids a healthy lunch in school. So let me bring some sanity to the table here. When bernie says that he wants universal lunches as part of his plan, what the left hears is that every child will have a lunch at school. What the right hears is that every child will have the same lunch. You know, like the low quality gruel they give people in the military. Once the government has a guaranteed menu of items that will be served as “food” the government is now free to contract with their golf buddies to open up factories that will manufacture the lowest quality slime they can make to serve to all the troops… or kids in this case. It guarantees that the government has control over everything that goes into the food they serve children and they are all required to eat at school and sack lunches will be banned. Oh wait, the left already wants to do that. What happened to pro-choice? We all want a woman to be able to decide what to do with her body but now we don’t want people to be able to choose what quality of education they get? Tell me… how does the public school system compare to those for-profit charter schools? Sounds like someone knows how to better educate the population.