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DeVos, like many other Trump nominees, supports privatization of public services, and she has dedicated a substantial amount of resources to promoting just that. And she was certainly not part of his inner circle hatching plans to court white voters by demonizing immigrants and minorities, like Jeff Sessions, Trump’s pick for attorney general.
Last week, Congress began confirmation hearings for President-elect Trump’s Cabinet appointments.
The Daily Caller News Foundation found that 6 of the 10 Democrats on the committee have attended private or parochial schools, or have children and grandchildren who attend. Warren’s hypocrisy disqualifies her from sitting in judgment of DeVos.
The committee vote has been rescheduled for January 31, but Sanders and Democrats on the committee are asking for a second hearing before they decide.
Alexander, for example, “limited the questioning to one round of five minutes for each senator, prompting howls from Democrats, who noted that previous hearings had included two rounds of questions”. So Democrats should have used this occasion to understand and engage her views honestly. Giving people options in the form of school choice can only incite a “war” when there is one side opposed to freedom that uses legislated ideologies to bully those who want something different. Evidently, it did not occur to Sen. Mrs. DeVos, a longtime champion for school choice in MI, supports controversial vouchers and tax credits.
A post to Facebook showing a tweet by DeVos – with grammatical corrections – was shared by thousands.
Because she gave “millions to political groups like the Republican National Committee and the Republican National Senatorial Committee and contributed to four senators on the committee overseeing her confirmation”, Democrats are “concerned”.
Not to be outdone, Sen. A lot of them attend schools that are at the bottom 5 percent of schools in their state. Now we’re confronted with Trump’s nomination of Betsy DeVos for secretary of education. No doubt to indulge his own anti-gun hobbyhorse!
Sen. Patty Murray, who has absolutely no understanding or regard for the constitutional limitation on the Department of Education, pushed DeVos to say whether she would personally defund public schools. Sen.
Charleston County needs strong public schools that ensure every child is offered the chance to get a sound education. Teacher unions have all but declared war.
DeVos a West Michigan native and Republican mega donor, also said she had resigned from 12 organizations she’s actively involved in but which she has no financial interests. DeVos justified herself by saying she “may have confused it”. The system does not yet work for everyone, but DeVos would have us abandon not only the ideal of public education in America, but the ideal of public education as America.
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She has fought against the regulation of charter schools. A report from a nonprofit called Excellent Schools Detroit rated 16 percent of charter schools as excellent or good compared with only 5 percent of district schools, whereas 62 percent of the district schools were weak or failing compared with 35 percent of the charters. Typically, the ethics review is finished before the nominee’s confirmation hearing. And that will not position it to fight the genuine threats to vulnerable minorities that the Trump presidency will nearly certainly bring.
