Betsy Devos Unqualified to be Education Secretary
Who Is Betsy DeVos?
Here’s how a billionaire who never went to public school became responsible for education in America.
Betsy DeVos’ Deadly Plan to Open Schools
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich exposes how Trump’s Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is using the pandemic to push her agenda of privatizing education.
Betsy DeVos Couldn’t Justify Reopening Schools
‘You didn’t answer the question’ — Betsy DeVos couldn’t justify Trump’s push to reopen schools nationwide this fall.
Video title: Public (School) Enemy No. 1: Billionaire Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Pick for Education Secretary
Video description: Donald Trump nominated conservative billionaire Betsy DeVos to serve as Education Secretary. DeVos is the former chair of the Michigan Republican Party and a longtime backer of charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools.
In response, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said, “In nominating DeVos Trump makes it loud and clear that his education policy will focus on privatizing, defunding and destroying public education in America.” Since 1970, the DeVos family has invested at least $200 million in various right-wing causes. DeVos’s father-in-law is the co-founder of Amway and her brother is Erik Prince, founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater.
DeVos’ driving cause has been “school choice.” In Michigan, she led the push to use public dollars to pay for private school tuition through vouchers and other means. That experiment has been a success for banks and hedge funds, and a resounding failure for many students. A 2016 report by the Education Trust-Midwest, a nonprofit, concluded that under the model shaped by DeVos, “Michigan’s K-12 system is among the weakest in the country and getting worse. In little more than a decade, Michigan has gone from being a fairly average state in elementary reading and math achievement to the bottom 10 states. It’s a devastating fall.”
DeVos wasn’t an education expert. She was, as The Washington Post pointed out, essentially a lobbyist who used her money to push an agenda that didn’t have much evidence of success to back it up.
Democratic Representative blasts Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for not protecting & defending scammed students
$13,420,000 to Heritage Foundation via her family foundation
It appears Billionaire Betsy Devos appointment as Education Secretary is being given as a “Gratuity” for all the Millions she gave to Republicans because she is clearly not qualified to fill this position.
Despite the fact that Devos is not qualified and Thousands of people protested against her appointment, ONLY TWO REPUBLICANS opposed her nomination.
Proving once again that it’s a MISTAKE to vote for REPUBLICANS because they don’t listen to their constituents and ALWAYS side with Big Business, Billionaires and Corporations.
People are expressing their outrage
Devos was met with protesters when she tried to use the main entrance to a public school in Washington, DC. One protestor yells, Shame! Shame! Shame! I think yelling YOU SUCK and YOUR AN IDIOT would be more appropriate.
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Video title: What can Betsy DeVos do to American schools?
Rep. Dan Kildee joins Joy Reid to talk about DeVos’ record in Michigan and what she will have the power to do as she takes the helm at the Department of Education.
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Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown Demands Education Secretary Nominee DeVos Pay Ohio $5.3 Million She Owes for Breaking Ohio Campaign Finance Law. Click here for Details
Betsy DeVos Sued For Weakening Sexual Assault Reporting Protections For Students
Three civil rights organizations have filed a lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for rolling back protections for students who report sexual assault. SurvJustice, which helps university women report assault, joined with Equal Rights Advocates and the Victim Rights Law Center to file the suit, which argues that the changes are discriminatory, violate federal law and are having a “chilling effect” on assault reports.
Betsy DeVos Sued For Weakening Sexual Assault Reporting Protections For Students
5 Reasons Betsy DeVos Sucks
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Opinion | Betsy DeVos Teaches the Value of Ignorance (Published 2017)
Editorial Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Give this article Give this article Give this article “Government really sucks.” This belief, expressed by the just-confirmed education secretary, Betsy DeVos, in a 2015 speech to educators, may be the only qualification she needed for President Trump.
Dems to DeVos: Pay $5.3M fine for campaign violations
A group of Democratic senators is calling on education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos to pay off $5.3 million in fines and penalties that her All Children Matter political action committee owes to Ohio for campaign finance violations.
18 states sue US Education Department, Betsy DeVos over student loan relief
WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) – More than one-third of U.S. states on Thursday sued the U.S. Education Department and its secretary, Betsy DeVos, over a recent decision to suspend rules intended to speedily cancel student-loan debt of people defrauded by for-profit Corinthian Colleges Inc and others.
18 States Sue US Education Department, Betsy DeVos Over Student Loan Relief
Analysis | Democrats list 29 ways they say Betsy DeVos is hurting public education
As kids head back to school for the 2017-2018 school year, the Democratic National Committee is issuing an unusual memo listing 29 ways that it says Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is harming public education.
