CNN is reporting that Trump has chosen billionaire BETSY DEVOS as the new head the Department of Education. The Secretary of Education designate is a known proponent of school vouchers.
The largest teacher's union in the country (National Education Association) has already condemned the appointment of DeVos for her advocacy of charter schools and school voucher programs. But apparently even with those views for some conservatives DeVos isn’t conservative enough because she’s a supporter of common core standards.
But vouchers are the perfect way of destroying the public school system even further: because it puts public education in competition with private education, threatening to reduce and reallocate public school funding to private schools and thus creating a vicious circle.
By nominating Betsy DeVos, the Trump administration has once more demonstrated that the common American has nothing to gain from his presidency but tears and sorrow.
DeVos is the wife of Dick DeVos, who was the GOP’s gubernatorial candidate in 2006, and who lost that election to Gov. Granholm.
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