Posted on 11/23/2016 4:31:54 PM PST by mdittmar
WASHINGTON—In response to President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Betsy DeVos to lead the Department of Education, AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement:
“The president-elect, in his selection of Betsy DeVos, has chosen the most ideological, anti-public education nominee put forward since President Carter created a Cabinet-level Department of Education.
“In nominating DeVos, Trump makes it loud and clear that his education policy will focus on privatizing, defunding and destroying public education in America.
“DeVos has no meaningful experience in the classroom or in our schools. The sum total of her involvement has been spending her family’s wealth in an effort to dismantle public education in Michigan. Every American should be concerned that she would impose her reckless and extreme ideology on the nation.
“We have an obligation to all children in America. That’s why we’ve fought to ensure that struggling schools get fixed, that we fight for kids to have the powerful learning, the social and emotional and wraparound services, and the great teachers they need. That’s why we fight for parents to have the voice they need and communities throughout the country to have the local decision-making for their schools and the investment they need, so we do everything we can to help all children have a great public education. What this pick means is far from ensuring that every child has the option of a great public education—the many who have it now will lose it. That’s been the experience of 25 years of privatizing: It helps very few, and many students now go to schools that have faced years of austerity and disinvestment.
“Betsy DeVos is everything Donald Trump said is wrong in America—an ultra-wealthy heiress who uses her money to game the system and push a special-interest agenda that is opposed by the majority of voters. Installing her in the Department of Education is the opposite of Trump’s promise to drain the swamp.”
That's a shame;)
translation: Mr Trump has made a great appointment! who sounds likely to do almost everything that needs doing to fix the deplorable mess in public education... a system which would be recalled by the FDA or CPSC in a split second as a defective product
I’m loving Betsy!
Poor progressives will have all their hard work setting up publicly funded indoctrination camps undone!
What a tremendous endorsement!
Liberals require railroad tanker cars full of butthurt cream. 1000’s of them. Well he did promise to us back to work and delivering all that butthurt is as good a reason as any.
There may be hope for our children after all...
Doesn’t she realize that there’s no point in giving Trump a strong endorsement like that after the election?
What a wonderful endorsement! I am so pleased that Trump picked Betsy and that she is being such fantastic accolades from her peers!
I wasnt sure about her until now.
Some say you can judge a man by his enemies.
Randi is a great choice of an enemy.
...“In nominating DeVos, Trump makes it loud and clear that his education policy will focus on privatizing, defunding and destroying public education in America....
Trump is going to make public education great again as it used to be before the AFT and liberal ideologs destroyed what worked.
Sounds like winning to me. Trump should work towards eliminating the DOE. It serves no useful purpose. States and local communities are more than capable to educate our children
She’s not a bad appointment, but she is just another “school reformer”, a path that in the long run leads nowhere. She’ll do some good things - clean out some of the leftists, reduce interference with the states, scuttle Common Core, talk up school choice. The most important thing is that she will be homeschool-friendly.
The AFL/CIO doesn’t like this, but plenty of teachers will disagree with their lords and masters. I have known plenty of teachers who would be happy to teach in a privatized school, where they can actually educate the kids instead of indoctrinating them.
school choice could cure a great deal of the problems in public education
DRAIN THE SWAMP !!! GO TRUMP !!!
Leni
Agree. Not bad, but not the Black Death of Federal government involvement in education that some of us crazies wished for.
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