
Here, I suspect, is where a number of our Republican friends are. Reason #2: “I want to make money off of your schools.” And remember, for us to trust you, you have to trust us as well, enough to listen to us and to include us in the decision-making. Then maybe we’ll believe that you belong under this heading, even when you bring wrong-headed “solutions” to the table. So, Republican politicians (and Democrats too, for that matter), if you want us to believe your heart is in the right place, and you really do want to “fix” things, then listen to the people on the ground when they tell you what works: smaller class sizes, higher teacher retention, full-time aides, and so on. As Rachel Maddow says: Don’t listen to their words instead, pay attention to their actions. I refuse to paint all politicians with the broad brush of “school destroyers.” But I also refuse to believe, without proof, that their professed love for teachers and public schools are worth any more than their thoughts and prayers after school shootings. They’d be (mostly) wrong, but again, their intent would be to make things better. They may believe that charter schools are a magic bullet. They’d be wrong, but at least their intent would be good. They may think high-stakes testing will improve achievement. But let’s be honest – some of them really do want to help. This, of course, is what all “reformers” say about their actions around our schools. There are, I think, three distinct reasons that Republicans are attacking our public schools and mounting an attempt to destroy public education itself.

The destruction of the public school system.Īll of these things have been happening for years all of them are now accelerating in frequency and intensity and all of them seem to be led by Republicans.
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Get local, national and world news, plus sport, entertainment, lifestyle, competitions and more delivered straight to your inbox with the Canberra Weekly Daily Newsletter. On Wednesday, Russian news agency TASS quoted a separatist official, Vitaly Kiselyov, as saying Russian and proxy forces had entered the town of Siversk in Donetsk province and could take it in a couple of days.ĭonetsk and Luhansk comprise the Donbas region.īy Yesim Dikmen and Michelle Nichols in ISTANBUL “According to preliminary information, there’s been another hit on a Russian munitions plant, at Sokil,” Serhiy Khlan, an adviser to the Ukrainian head of Kherson province, wrote on Facebook. The Russian state-owned RIA news agency quoted the Russian-backed administration of Kherson region as saying Russian air defences shot down five missiles fired at the town of Nova Kakhovka, while the debris of two of the missiles fell near a factory. Russian media reported Ukrainian armed forces launched a fresh missile attack in a strategically important Russian-held southern area of Kherson that Kyiv is hoping to retake.
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A school – if they themselves are okay to grow up stupid, why bomb our schools?” said 60-year-old resident Oleksandr. “All this makes me feel sick … Monsters, simply monsters, there is no other word. In the industrialised Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, Russian missiles hit the industrial zone of Kramatorsk and electricity was cut in some parts of the city, Mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko wrote on Facebook.Ī Russian strike destroyed a school in Donbas on Wednesday. Russian forces targeted a number of civilian facilities in the southern city of Mykolaiv on Thursday, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said on the messaging app Telegram. Ukrainian officials said there had been sustained shelling across several cities. “Its task will be to carry out general monitoring and coordination of safe navigation in the Black Sea,” Zelenskiy’s Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak said on Twitter.Īpart from being major global wheat suppliers, Russia is also a large fertiliser exporter and Ukraine a significant producer of corn and sunflower oil.Ī deal is seen as vital for food security, notably among developing nations, and for stabilising markets.īut Guterres warned there was still “a long way to go” before there would be peace talks to end the war. Turkey and Ukraine said a joint coordination centre with Russia and the United Nations would be set up. In the coming days we will agree on the details with the UN secretary general.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appeared optimistic in late-night comments: “The Ukrainian delegation has reported to me that there is progress.
