Trump education pick DeVos has steered money from public schools
This is the opposite of what we should be doing.
Click here for reuse options!It is hard to find anyone more passionate about the idea of steering public dollars away from traditional public schools than Betsy DeVos, Donald J. Trump’s pick as the cabinet secretary overseeing the nation’s education system.
For nearly 30 years, as a philanthropist, activist and Republican fund-raiser, she has pushed to give families taxpayer money in the form of vouchers to attend private and parochial schools, pressed to expand publicly funded but privately run charter schools, and tried to strip teacher unions of their influence.
A daughter of privilege, she also married into it; her husband, Dick, who ran unsuccessfully for governor of Michigan a decade ago, is heir to the Amway fortune. Like many education philanthropists, she argues that children’s ZIP codes should not confine them to failing schools…
Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, called Ms. DeVos “the most ideological, anti-public education nominee” since the secretary of education was elevated to the cabinet level four decades ago.
Even some groups that share her support for charter schools worried that picking someone so closely identified as a champion of vouchers signaled that the Trump administration would try to starve public schools.
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Buford2k11 November 25th, 2016 at 08:56
Republicans have been starving public education since before Reagan…the pay off just happened with all the uneducated, less than educated, and the outright stupid, just proved the gop’s theory of devolution…by voting for an functionally illiterate Trump…Stupid Rules the Day…and the rest of us will have to pay…
Budda November 25th, 2016 at 09:08
How bad is this? Eric of Blackwater fame is her brother!
William November 25th, 2016 at 09:28
There goes Cheeto-Hitler, draining the swamp again. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f81d78a9a377e71c67ba86fd575da8b78996992079b5655a60e5ca12c1abc05a.jpg
Suzanne McFly November 25th, 2016 at 10:11
I wish she could walk in my shoes for one day and tell me to my face that public school teachers don’t work hard enough for what we are paid.
William November 25th, 2016 at 15:44
Exactly! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/654c0d9f56a1dd1daea0162ec90ae7e8d5c043bb9d7d15e9cc3550c863e33f6d.jpg
Tommie November 25th, 2016 at 10:57
Instead of taking money out of schools, how about making sure the money goes where it is suppose to! To many people are putting money in their pockets instead, when it should go to the children! For goodness sake, in Philly they are building prisons and are closing schools, let’s you know how much faith they have in minority children! 400,000,000 dollars on the prison, think of what they could do with that money if they used it correctly!