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.”
Your posts speak for themselves.
time to defund and dissolve the ATF.
LOL! Well AFT is what I meant, but the ATF can go too.
They do - and they make far more sense than yours do.
Thanks for the recognition.
“Sorry you think of it as a personal attack - just trying to keep those who would do their best to sabotage Trump’s base because they have so many “concerns” they just have to come out.”
Agree. I am losing patience with the whiners who unknowingly ARE sabotaging Trump already. We voted for him. He will earn our vote, but every single choice he makes will not be the choice of every single one who voted for him. This stuff plays right into the hands of the MSM and the Democratic party who are very actively trying to get him out once he’s in office. Everybody’s an expert, and even though we won, some are acting like we lost. I trust Trump to make the best possible decisions for the country. No looking back.
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