Public school teachers are walking out of classrooms to protest lack of funds and lack of raises. Should Betsy DeVos do/say something?

Touche. But she is a billionairhead and she won't give up a gravy train willingly. Thank you for your reply Ele and Happy Wednesday! :)

Ohio lead the nation with 53 charter school failures. 98% stayed open. 

If the students are not learning then those schools should be closed.

Agreed.

Schools fail due to lack of money. DeVos is sucking out public school funding to promote her voucher agenda. You cannot improve anything without spending money. Obvious isn't it? No-brainer, right? Thank you for your reply.

Agreed. One small local village here, Ottawa Hills, is very wealthy. They spend large amounts of money on their three schools. 100% graduation rate, 95% college acceptance and highly paid teachers.

Why am I not surprised? All billionairheads protect their own first and onliest. Public school is a epithet to them. Something to be reviled/sabotaged/undermined/demeaned. How many billionairheads d'ya think shop at a Walmart or the 99 cent store or a thrift store? It's  beneath them. That's just for the "little people"! Meanwhile she is damaging public education every day, taking her pay and moving along protected by the billionairhead who appointed her. Fair? Maybe in an alternate universe. Thank you for your reply tom!  :( Sad face is not directed at you. It's the situation in education that saddens me seriously. :(:(

You mean PUBLIC schools fail due to lack of money.

PUBLIC schools in Oregon spend an average of 2x per student, as private schools.
Yet, the public school education is far behind that of private schools.
And the graduation rate of public schools is third worse in the nation

The spending gap between public school and home schooling is even greater - with even greater education gap.

Money is demonstrably NOT the problem.

Nobody dare say it but me...What we need are better students.

ill agree, and add that that  the schools need to not be afraid to handle the students.  and get rid of the disruptive and violent students...let their parents deal with them. sometimes when parents are inconvenienced to have to get them to and from school, or make other arrangements to have their kid babysat you get better results. That would allow for the students that are there to learn, to learn. Schools around here are zoos because of this.
If they would deal with the problem, maybe people wouldn't be pulling their kids from public schools and opting for private, virtual, or homeschools. Why leave the money in a school your kid cant use? This post was edited by maggie at April 4, 2018 7:36 AM MDT

Many of my students only had one parent at home. Some had none. I had a few that could not speak English. It wouldn't matter where they went to school, they would likely not succeed. Maybe I should say instead: What we need are better parents.

I agree on that too...and a lot of times when parents cant dump their kids off at school , they sometimes discipline them and make them act right .allowing them to go learn with the kids who are there to learn.
Last year at one of the schools here..a first or second grader commited suicide because he was so badly bullied at school. He was beat down in the bathroom so badly he lost conscious...and the school did nothing about it...didn't even tell the mother.
https://www.fox19.com/story/35399854/attorney-8-year-old-committed-suicide-two-days-after-he-was-assaulted-at-carson-elementary

if they cant behave in school...get them out of there. And if you have teachers and principals who wont do their jobs  eliminate them also. This post was edited by maggie at April 4, 2018 7:55 AM MDT

I totally completely absolutely disagree with thee. So what? Thank you for your reply and Happy Wednesday Walt. How much money does Bel Air or Beverly Hills or Palm Beach or any of the enclaves of the very wealthy spend on education? How much do they pay their teachers? Do any of them have to spend money out of their own pockets to buy supplies for the students? The students all have state-of-the-art thingies, doo-hickeys, thingamabobs and whatchamaclits. They are dripping in money. Floating in it. Compare that to Watts (a not-very-wealthy part in southern California). You really think spending the same amount of money on students in Watts wouldn't improve things miraculously? Or taking away all that money from the wealthy billionairheads' kids wouldn't damage them? I don't know in which universe that would be true but here on planet earth money makes all the difference. In my opinion to which I am entitled as you are entitled to yours. Agreed? This post was edited by RosieG at April 4, 2018 7:37 AM MDT

As you say ... we disagree.

I believe parental involvement is more important than money.
Thus why private schools and home schooling generally outperforms public schools.
Those parents are generally more involved in their kids' education.
(Makes sense, don't it?  When it's your own money buying the education, you want to get all you can.  But when it's someone else's money ... tax payers ... you don't care as much how it's spent or the results.  Even when it's your kids.  Sad.)

Sure, money can replace parental involvement ... to a point.
I'm sure those wealthy school parents also have no problem hiring private tutors, if their kids are doing poorly in school.

As to technology - recent research suggests that higher reliance on technology actually results in less education as well as lower personal interaction (not surprising that 2nd part).

If it all came down to money ... nobody would ever get out of the "ghetto".
Instead, we have many examples where people claim they made it out because their parent(s) kept pushing them and instilled a drive to be better.

No schools do not fail only for lack of money. Schools also fail for lack of being able to fire bad teachers. For lack for being able to properly deal with disruptive students. Schools fail from students/parents who don't care. 
The problem is not only money...not by a long shot.

Doofylucy talks all the time and never knows what to say. It doesn't stop him from making his "tippy toppy" comments. She should say something. It doesn't have to make any sense. She just has to move her lips and make some noise. Even a billionairhead is capable of doing that. Thank you for your reply tom and Happy Wednesday.