Add Plagiarism to list of reasons Betsy Devos is Unqualified

President Trump’s nominee for education secretary, in written responses to questions from senators, appears to have used several sentences and phrases from other sources without attribution — including from a top Obama administration civil rights official.

The responses from nominee Betsy DeVos were submitted Monday to the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which is voting Tuesday morning on her confirmation.

In answering a set of questions from Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on how she would address bullying of LGBT students, DeVos wrote: “Every child deserves to attend school in a safe, supportive environment where they can learn, thrive, and grow.”

[Here are Betsy’s DeVos’s answers to 139+ questions from Democratic Sen. Murray]

That sentence is almost identical to language used by Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division under President Barack Obama, in a news release announcing the administration’s controversial guidance to schools on how to accommodate transgender students.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/devos-questionnaire-appears-to-include-passages-from-uncited-sources/2017/01/31/50577dec-e7be-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html?utm_term=.db86cb48f4b1

And it is not the only example.

In another instance, DeVos' appears to have lifted language from the Department of Education website.
"Opening a complaint for investigation in no way implies that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has made a determination about the merits of the complaint," DeVos wrote in response to a question about publishing the list of schools under Title IX investigations.
The Department of Education guidance reads, "Opening a complaint for investigation in no way implies that OCR has made a determination with regard to the merits of the complaint."
DeVos is one of a handful of Trump cabinet nominees that Senate Democrats believe they have a chance of upending.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/31/politics/betsy-devos-plagiarism-obama-official/?sr=google_news

Can these people never give credit to anyone? Betsy you FAIL!!!