Former education secretary David Blunkett has published a report proposing the appointment of local Directors of School Standards to monitor schools. (bbc.com)
They objected to some of the same proposed appointments at the board's Jan. 23 meeting, saying they weren't given sufficient time to review resumes or offer candidate recommendations. (newsday.com)
We have a president - elect who has disparaged Muslims, Latinos, immigrants, African Americans, and people with disabilities, who wants to build a wall to prevent people of diverse races, ethnicities, and cultures from entering our borders, who is proposing appointments who threaten our civil liberties that have been fought (and died) for over decades and centuries, who belittles climate change in favor of continued corporate pollution and concentration of wealth in the hands of few. (cce.org)