Betsy DeVos school choice advocate for Education Secretary

[DigitalDrifter]

GOP donor Betsy DeVos accepts education secretary post in Trump cabinet

President-elect Donald Trump appointed billionaire businesswoman Betsy DeVos as his education secretary, and she has accepted the post, his transition team announced Wednesday.

“Betsy DeVos is a brilliant and passionate education advocate,” Trump said in a statement. “Under her leadership, we will reform the U.S. education system and break the bureaucracy that is holding our children back so that we can deliver world-class education and school choice to all families.”

DeVos, of Grand Rapids, Mich., is chair of Windquest Group, a privately held investment firm, and has been active in politics for more than 35 years. She was elected chair of the Michigan Republican Party four times, according to her official biography.

GOP donor Betsy DeVos accepts education secretary post in Trump cabinet

 

[deltex1]

That's uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge....

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Betsy DeVos (@BetsyDeVos)
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Many of you are asking about Common Core. To clarify, I am not a supporter—period. Read my full stance, here: betsydevos.com/qa/

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Maybe she'll make some headway on ending the liberal stranglehold on keeping minorities and the poor from having some educational choices.

 

[sealybobo]

Maybe she'll make some headway on ending the liberal stranglehold on keeping minorities and the poor from having some educational choices.

Bernie Sanders Asks Trump’s Education Nominee If She’s Only Getting The Job Because She’s A Billionaire

Betsy DeVos, a billionaire from one of Michigan’s most powerful Republican families, has spent years funding “school choice” efforts in her home state and around the country. Public education advocates and teacher unions have described her as a radical choice to be the face of federal education policy.

DeVos’ vast wealth figured prominently in the hearing. Her family, which made its fortune through Amway and is worth an estimated $5 billion, has been a major funder of charter school expansion, Republican candidacies and efforts to weaken labor unions. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) asked DeVos if she would have found herself there Tuesday if she wasn’t so rich.

“If you were not a multibillionaire … do you think that you would be sitting here today?” Sanders asked.

“I do think there would be that possibility,” DeVos responded. “I’ve worked very hard on behalf of parents and children.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) questioned DeVos about her qualifications to oversee student loans and distribute Pell grants. She asked DeVos if she or any of her children had ever had to take out a student loan to help pay for college.

“They have been fortunate not to,” DeVos noted.

 

[TheOldSchool]

If we apply the Amway model to American education, then Betsy going to make even more money than she did digging for Dick's gold!

 

[jasonnfree]

If we apply the Amway model to American education, then Betsy going to make even more money than she did digging for Dick's gold!

They all do it. Remember obama appointed a vehement anti labor billionaire pritzker for commerce. He probably owed favors like most all politicians do, and obama was never a man of the people like he pretended to be, anyway. hillary would have been the same.

 

[TheOldSchool]

If we apply the Amway model to American education, then Betsy going to make even more money than she did digging for Dick's gold!

They all do it. Remember obama appointed a vehement anti labor billionaire pritzker for commerce. He probably owed favors like most all politicians do, and obama was never a man of the people like he pretended to be, anyway. hillary would have been the same.

They wouldn't have appointed someone in order to dismantle the public school system and punish people for pursuing careers in teaching at least.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Seems the nominee believes guns in and around schools is a good thing to protect the children against Grizzly Bears!

DeVos opponents sound alarm after bumpy hearing