Badass Teachers Association
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 22, 2014
More Information Contact:
Marla Kilfoyle, General Manager,
BATs
Melissa Tomlinson, Asst. General
Manager, BATs
The Badass Teachers Association (BATs), an association of
over 48,000 teachers, has taken a vote of NO CONFIDENCE in U.S. Secretary of
Education Arne Duncan. This vote
signifies that teachers around the nation do not support the educational agenda
set forth by the Obama Administration and Secretary Duncan. Race to the Top fails to serve our neediest
children and it fails to address race and class inequalities in the education
system.
BATs Co-Founder Mark Naison
states in his letter to President Obama, “The joy and creative learning that
your own children experience in one of the nation's top private schools are
being driven out of public schools throughout the nation with startling
rapidity. Teachers work in fear. Students learn under extreme stress. Parents
wonder why their children have started to hate school. ”
Marla Kilfoyle, General Manager
of BATs states, “Secretary Duncan’s continued public attacks on parents,
students, and teachers have further eroded our confidence in his ability to run
the U.S.D.O.E. and to make decisions for our nation’s public schools. His continued support of corporate education
reform, which is dismantling public education in America, furthers our resolve
to have him removed from office.”
Melissa
Tomlinson, Asst. General Manager of BATs claims, “Arne Duncan, as Secretary of
Education, has failed to fulfill the responsibility of this position to provide
and maintain the basic human right to education as set out in the 1948
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations. His failure to fulfill the obligation, and
responsibility to provide the necessary financial support to public schools, is
neglectful of the required compliance to the '4 A's Framework' that dictate all
schools be available, accessible, acceptable, and adaptable. With this in mind,we have an obligation to
replace him with a person that is better qualified to do so.”
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