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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBetsy DeVos: the billionaire Republican destroying public education
Betsy DeVos has become accustomed to hostile audiences. The House of Representatives education committee earlier this month was no exception.
When you approach a public school, you are protested, the Democratic congresswoman Frederica Wilson told the education secretary. When you enter, you are booed. You are the most unpopular person in our government. Millions will register to vote in 2020. Many will vote to remove you more than to remove the president.
When you approach a public school, you are protested, the Democratic congresswoman Frederica Wilson told the education secretary. When you enter, you are booed. You are the most unpopular person in our government. Millions will register to vote in 2020. Many will vote to remove you more than to remove the president.
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Weve had plenty of Republican as well as Democratic secretaries of education but none of them, even those who believed in alternatives to public education, actually tried to eviscerate public education, said Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. Here is someone who in her first budget tried to eliminate every single summer school programme, every single after-school programme, and who has done everything in her power to try to make it harder for us to strengthen public [sector] schools.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/27/betsy-devos-trump-republicans-education-secretary
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REMEMBER DEVOS IN NOVEMBER AS ONE OF THE TOP 20 REASONS TO VOTE AND TO VOTE BLUE.
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Betsy DeVos: the billionaire Republican destroying public education (Original Post)
mysteryowl
Dec 2019
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Kid Berwyn
(14,980 posts)1. Her Brother Erik Prince also works to destroy democracy.
Great Amway family.
Buckeyeblue
(5,502 posts)2. Her husband, Dick, ran for governor of Michigan
And Jennifer Granholm beat him badly. I remember her debate with him. He looked like a deer in the headlights as she started her attacks on him. You could tell he lived a life where he had never been challenged or held accountable. Granholm did both. The final vote wasn't even close.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)3. I despise that woman.
I not only want to see her out of office, I want to see her suffer the consequences of her evil ways.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)4. let her share a cellblock with Barr, TrumPutin, and Moscow Mitch