Influential conservative group: Trump, DeVos should dismantle Education Department and bring God...
Influential conservative group: Trump, DeVos should dismantle Education Department and bring God into classroomsBy Emma Brown February 15 at 5:02 PM
A policy manifesto from an influential conservative group with ties to the Trump administration, including Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, urges the dismantling of the Education Department and bringing God into American classrooms.
The five-page document produced by the Council for National Policy calls for a restoration of education in America that would minimize the federal role, promote religious schools and home schooling and enshrine historic Judeo-Christian principles as a basis for instruction.
Names of the councils members are closely held. But the Southern Poverty Law Center published a 2014 membership directory showing that Stephen K. Bannon now chief White House strategist for President Trump was a member and that Kellyanne Conway now counselor to the president served on the councils executive committee.
DeVos was not listed as a member, but her mother, Elsa Prince Broekhuizen, was namedon the councils board of governors. Her father-in-law, Amway founder Richard DeVos Sr., twice served as president, most recently from 1990 to 1993. And she and her husband have given money to the council as recently as 2007 through their family foundation, according to federal tax records.
The councils Education Reform Report says it is intended to help DeVos and Trump map a path toward change. The proposal to abolish the department dovetails with the longheld views of many Republicans, and President Trump suggested during the 2016 campaign that the agency could be largely eliminated. But Trump has given no sign since taking office that he aims to act on that idea, and DeVos embraced the mission of the department when she took office last week.
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Ilsa
(61,697 posts)Organize to have their kids homeschooled or in an office. Their SAT scores will be perfect or near perfect, while the kids in DeVos schools will be operating cash registers and cursing immigrants for being smarter, getting the scholarships, and getting great jobs.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Seems to me, if God wanted to be in the classroom, he would do that.
PsychoBabble
(837 posts).... Oh, yes, Constitution, and ... separation of Church and State ... yeah, THAT, plus we are so Patriotic. Nobody is as patriotic as WE are. Bigly.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)SharonAnn
(13,778 posts)FSogol
(45,524 posts)plastic and trash in the Seas.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Solly Mack
(90,780 posts)ancianita
(36,132 posts)According to Jane Mayer in her foundational book, Dark Money, the DeVoses built the model that nationwide evangelicals are using to set up the christianizing of US schools.
This is part of the worldwide believer war they believe they must fight against Islam.