{"id":25411,"date":"2019-10-27T06:41:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T06:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=25411"},"modified":"2019-10-27T06:41:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T06:41:03","slug":"state-education-department-shunned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/state-education-department-shunned\/","title":{"rendered":"State Education Department – shunned by professionals?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States State Education Department has been witnessing a worrying trend because top officials are quitting in their droves. For instance, <\/b>Beth Berlin<\/b><\/a>, the Interim Commissioner, recently left, and this was after being at the helm for a short time.<\/b>
\nThis state of affairs may, therefore, jeopardize the functionality of the State Education Department.\u00a0<\/span>
\nNotably, Berlin took the Interim Commissioner\u2019s post after her predecessor, MaryEllen Elia, abruptly quit at the end of August.<\/span><\/p>\n

Something amiss at the State Education Department<\/b><\/h2>\n

Some of the top officials who have left the State Education Department include Deputy Commissioners, John D\u2019Agati, Jhone Ebert, and Angelica Infante-Green.\u00a0<\/b>
\nAdditionally, Associate Commissioners have also not been spared because some of them have resigned, such as Ira Schwartz and Renee Rider, among others.\u00a0<\/span>
\nChuck Dedrick, the New York State Council of School Superintendents Executive Director, asserted that Berlin\u2019s resignation was very concerning.\u00a0<\/span>
\nHe also acknowledged that there was something wrong in the State Education Department based on the many professionals leaving.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Poor policies at the State Education Department<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Some of the strategies adopted at the Department of State Education are propelling the massive exodus of professionals.\u00a0<\/span>
\nIt has been stipulated that some of the approaches in place will make schools disastrous, and no one who holds integrity would want to be part of it.\u00a0<\/span>
\nFor instance, the State Education Department\u2019s reputation has been daunted by the rolling back of standards, easing graduation pathways, and weakening measures meant to make teachers accountable for their performance.\u00a0<\/b>
\nConversely, <\/span>Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education<\/span><\/a>, is facing separate lawsuits based on the way the Department of Education handled for-profit schools.<\/span>
\nOne of the accusations entails how an operator of for-profit schools was permitted to misguide students. As a result, they are drowning in debt that is beyond their capabilities. It is also alleged that Betsy DeVos has continually refused to discharge the student loan debt of borrowers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United States State Education Department has been witnessing a worrying trend because top officials are quitting in their droves. For instance, Beth Berlin, the Interim Commissioner, recently left, and this was after being at the helm for a short time. This state of affairs may, therefore, jeopardize the functionality of the State Education Department.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":25412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}