{"id":1242864,"date":"2022-01-26T11:38:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1242864"},"modified":"2022-01-26T11:38:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:38:51","slug":"tim-scott-parents-should-drive-education-decisions-not-big-labor-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-parents-should-drive-education-decisions-not-big-labor-bosses\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Scott: Parents Should Drive Education Decisions, Not Big Labor Bosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftim-scott-parents-should-drive-education-decisions-not-big-labor-bosses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1242864&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/\">Issues<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;It\u2019s time to unite around an agenda that puts students and families first&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-11.05.39-AM-736x386-1.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-11.05.39-AM-736x386.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-11.05.39-AM-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-11.05.39-AM-1024x537.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-11.05.39-AM-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-11.05.39-AM-1536x805.png 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-11.05.39-AM-2048x1074.png 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-11.05.39-AM-1400x734.png 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alex-nester\/\" title=\"Posts by Alex Nester\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alex Nester<\/a> \u2022 January 26, 2022 11:21 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After two years of educational turmoil highlighted by pandemic-driven school closures and curriculum fights, Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.) is pushing to make parental involvement in education a Republican priority.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The South Carolina senator is using National School Choice week as an occasion to bring parents together to highlight frustration with yearlong school closures, a lack of transparency in curricula, and district officials\u2019 unwillingness to work with families to give their children the best possible education. In a video released Wednesday, Scott spoke with three mothers who have experienced firsthand the negative impacts virtual learning has had on their kids and are working with the lawmaker to chart a way forward that gives parents an avenue to better their kids&#8217; education.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;When it comes to parental involvement, Democrats echo the talking points of big labor bosses,&#8221; Scott told the <i>Washington Free Beacon <\/i>after the Charleston event. &#8220;But in South Carolina we listen to the people who matter most in this conversation: the parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;After more than a year of locked classrooms, learning loss, division, and charged rhetoric, it\u2019s time to unite around an agenda that puts students and families first,&#8221; Scott said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Parental involvement in education has emerged as one of the primary political battlefields going into the 2022 midterms. Powerful teachers&#8217; unions have clashed with parents over who should lead on issues including school closures, mask mandates, and what kids are learning. House Republicans told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> this month that they plan to center their <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/policy\/republicans-pin-national-education-battle-to-parents-bill-of-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/policy\/republicans-pin-national-education-battle-to-parents-bill-of-rights\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643297378173000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2pN6opfeDRe4qj2wETvyHc\">legislative agenda<\/a> around parental rights in education should they win control of the gavel come November. Scott&#8217;s event signals that there would be cooperation in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Virginia mother Nicki Neily told Scott during the panel that she felt completely &#8220;disempowered&#8221; as she watched kids suffer during the pandemic. Online learning took a toll on kids\u2019 grades and social lives, Neily said, and when parents spoke up about their kids\u2019 problems, school administrators refused to listen.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;People felt disenfranchised and abandoned by the system,&#8221; Neily said.<\/p>\n<p>Neily told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> after the event that &#8220;very few politicians&#8221; have shown interest in what parents have to say, and was hopeful that Scott would take what he heard during the panel to shape policy going forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the past two years, it&#8217;s become abundantly clear that very few politicians have any interest whatsoever in listening to the concerns of families\u2014rather, they prefer to speak down to us or ignore us altogether,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The fact that Senator Scott is engaged on kitchen table issues like school closures and parental involvement sets him apart from the pack, and we are so grateful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"m_-4219854669309736148gmail-docs-internal-guid-751f2b84-7fff-4e71-e6de-422418c5b4e1\">On Wednesday afternoon, Scott will host a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorTimScott\/status\/1485735835962068992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live panel discussion<\/a> with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Rep. Burgess Owens (R., Utah) on the same topic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issues &#8216;It\u2019s time to unite around an agenda that puts students and families first&#8217;  Alex Nester \u2022 January 26, 2022 11:21 am After two years &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}