Tag: Betsy DeVos
Like her boss, Betsy DeVos makes a disaster all about herself
“It’s going to be a profit boom for charter schools, and it’s going to hasten the demise of traditional public schools.”
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Don’t trust business with education
Greasy politicians use education funds to enrich corporations – and themselves.
Why teachers don’t trust Betsy DeVos, and neither should you
While DeVos gives the silent treatment to news organizations, public officials, rights advocates, and educators, she maintains an open-door policy for those prone to agree with her.
Should we entrust our schoolchildren to corporate profiteers?
The DeVos couple are pushing plutocratic policies that reject our country's one-for-all, all-for-one egalitarianism.
Betsy DeVos won’t protect LGBTQ students
“Today, the Secretary of Education ... refused to affirm that she would put forward a program that would ban discrimination based on the LGBTQ status of students or ban discrimination based on religion.”
It’s a scam
The irony is obvious - taking money from the taxpaying public to destroy a vital public institution that, unlike charter schools, must take all comers.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren vows to hold Education Secretary accountable
“It’s Betsy Devos’s job to put students – not predatory colleges and the student loan industry – first.”
DeVos budget robs from poor kids to fund schools that discriminate
What Trump and DeVos are proposing in this budget is not only to take resources away from students, but to turn around and give more money to schools that would potentially discriminate against them.
DeVos’s education budget throws students to the loan sharks
It’s clear, no matter which company wins, the students lose.
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