Are public schools really like this now?

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What is happening to public education in the US is a national disgrace.

https://news.azpm.org/p/news-topical-edu...-shortage/

Why Arizona Teachers Leave: Pay Tops Other Reasons

Looking at data from 2013 to present, the study found that 42 percent of Arizona teachers hired in 2013 were gone within three years, and 22 percent left after one.

And make no mistake.  This is not an accident.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/deeply-unpop...education/

DeVos And ALEC In Lockstep In Trying To Destroy Public Education

Virtually everything you need to know about ALEC’s education priorities is captured in the group’s most recent Report Card on American Education. Here, “forward-thinking” states like Arizona reign supreme thanks to a ranking system that prizes freedom from the education monopoly above all. Arizona’s high school graduation rate may be a full 25 percent lower than my own adopted home state of Massachusetts (languishing at #32 on the ALEC scale), but at least students aren’t choked by burdensome homeschooling regulations. In fact, thanks to far-sighted lawmakers like Arizona ALEC state chair Debbie Lesko (ALEC lawmaker of the year ’16), young Arizonans can now eschew school for a buffet of “a la carte learning options,” paid for with pre-loaded edu-debit cards, a vision DeVos regards as a model.

This is the dumb cunt that the WLB put in charge of the Department of "Education."  What a fucking joke.