Posted on 11/23/2016 10:53:24 AM PST by Lorianne
President-elect Donald Trump is set to nominate Betsy DeVos, a billionaire and school choice advocate, as his secretary of education.
"Betsy DeVos is a brilliant and passionate education advocate," Trump said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. "Under her leadership, we will reform the U.S. education system and break the bureaucracy that is holding our children back so that we can deliver world-class education and school choice to all families."
Official @realDonaldTrump statement re @BetsyDeVos for Education Secretary: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cx92-bUWIAA6XDr.jpg:large DeVos is the former chair of the Michigan Republican Party and currently heads the American Federation for Children, which aggressively pushes for charter schools and voucher programs that let students go to private schools with taxpayer funds.
She and her husband, Dick DeVos — who together were worth more than $5 billion in 2012, according to Reuters — have funded initiatives to push for school voucher programs.
"The status quo in education is not acceptable," DeVos said in a statement. "Together, we can work to make transformational change that ensures every student in America has the opportunity to fulfill his or her highest potential."
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DeVos says she is not for common core, although some organizations she is involved with is. She says that it turned a couple of good ideas into a bureaucratic mess.
Here are her words:
I do support high standards, strong accountability, and local control
Exactly what Trump ran on. Nice of you to support him for the full two weeks. Some of us will wait clear until his first day as President before we go Cruz purist.
Pray America woke
Ed SEC’s first job is to shut down the dept. After setting every family and student absolutely free to choose their own schooling.
I don’t know what facts you base your post on, but it sounds like bloviation to me.
She says she does not either.
The only scope that the feds have with regards to education would be:
1) For the purposes of hiring government employees, what counts as a qualifying degree
2) For the purposes of transferring students between the states, what skills are needed to be accepted at X grade level.
“Cruz Crew” is all I needed to hear. I’m all in!
Common Core was many things but at root it was a pot of money.
If you wanted that money, you had to write a blurb about how you would use it to set uniform standards in education and outcomes blah blah blah.
Well now that federal pot is gone and President Trump won’t be advocating it be filled again. Instead you will see him whip up a storm of money for constructing safe state-of-the-art schools to keep his promise to the pastors in the inner cities.
And he’s bringing in De Vos to slay the teacher’s unions to keep their dirty mitts off the money. She is going to pour the money into School Choice and that is a death knell to the unions.
Perhaps the appointment of DeVos may be an indication of the possibility of inculcating a love of liberty and freedom in the minds of youth by freeing them from a one-size-fits-all mentality which highlights mediocrity, not excellence.
For instance, one can hope that Trump and DeVos may be able to look behind the numbers of citizens in prisons and examine the possible connections between Progressive control of the public "education" system and the number of youth in prisons.
Clearly, anyone who speaks out against the Dept. of Education and all of the other multitudinous Progressive bureaucracies that control the propagandizing of children over the past few decades in the name of "educating" them must be willing to be marginalized by the media and politicians; but in order to understand the increase in prison populations, one must look behind the numbers and the crimes and examine objectively contributing facts to the cultural changes which may have brought them to where they are today. Progressives seldom do that, relying, instead on whatever the current Progressive narrative seems to be.
Even as early as the Year 1886, serious efforts to make that link were treated badly by the political structure of the day. At that date, today's self-identified "progressives" called themselves "liberals," though not in the "classical liberal" tradition.
Examine the case of an accomplished man by the name of Zacharias Montgomery who was denied an important post in government for doing just that. You will read some of his words below.
With that said, those who love liberty must be willing to come forward to declare that it is better to be remembered for standing on and articulating enduring principles of right versus wrong, liberty versus tyranny, than to be praised by the mainstream media and so-called "progressives."
Here are excerpted portions of the words of Zacharias Montgomery in his 1886 Book entitled "Poison Drops in the United States Senate . . . ." Although his treatise dealt primarily with the public school question, the following remarks might be helpful to those who, today, are concerned by what passes for "public education."
Excerpts from Zacharias Montgomery:
"My countrymen, disguise the fact as we may, there is in this country to-day, and in both the political Parties, an element which is ripe for a centralized despotism. There are men and corporations of vast wealth, whose iron grasp spans this whole continent, and who find it more difficult and more expensive to corrupt thirty odd State Legislatures than one Federal Congress. It was said of Nero of old that he wished the Roman people had but one head, so that he might cut it off at a single blow. And so it is with those moneyed kings who would rule this country through bribery, fraud, and intimidation.So said Zacharias Montgomery in 1886. Read his complete work at HERE."It is easy to see how, with all the powers of government centered at Washington in one Federal head, they could at a single stroke put an end to American liberty.
"But they well understand that before striking this blow the minds of the people must be prepared to receive it. And what surer or safer preparation could possibly be made than is now being made, by indoctrinating the minds of the rising generation with the idea that ours is already a consolidated government ; that the States of the Union have no sovereignty which is not subordinate to the will and pleasure of the Federal head, and that our Constitution is the mere creature of custom, and may therefore be legally altered or abolished by custom.
"Such are a few of the pernicious and poisonous doctrines which ten millions of American children are today drinking in with the very definitions of the words they are compelled to study. And yet the man who dares to utter a word of warning of the approaching danger is stigmatized as an enemy to education and unfit to be mentioned as a candidate for the humblest office.
"Be it so. Viewing this great question as I do, not for all the offices in the gift of the American people would I shrink from an open and candid avowal of my sentiments. If I have learned anything from the reading of history, it is that the man who, in violation of great principles, toils for temporary fame, purchases for himself either total oblivion or eternal infamy, while he who temporarily goes down battling for right principles always deserves, and generally secures, the gratitude of succeeding ages, and will carry with him the sustaining solace of a clean conscience, more precious than all the offices and honors in the gift of man.
"History tells us that Aristides was voted into banishment because he was just. Yet who would not a thousand times rather today be Aristides than be numbered amongst the proudest of his persecutors.
"Socrates, too, in violation of every principle of justice, was con demned to a dungeon and to death. Yet what name is more honored in history than his? And which of his unjust judges would not gladly, hide himself in the utter darkness of oblivion from the withering scorn and contempt of all mankind?
"From the noble example of Aristides and of Socrates let American statesmen learn wisdom, and from the undying infamy of their cowardly time-serving persecutors let political demagogues of today take warning."
Anyone who reads his complete volume will realize the wisdom and farsightedness of Montgomery's ability to see the consequences of what his fellow Americans were advocating in the area of education of youth.
Montgomery's analysis of what he called a "parental" system of education versus an "anti-parental" system was backed up by analytical documentation from public records. Please review pages 19 through 43 for statistical summaries from those records. Make up your own mind about the validity of this official's work.
Such an examination, conducted in 2017, might be enlightening on the subject of this thread.
If you’re not going to deal with the teachers’ unions infested in our schools .. you’re not going to accomplish anything .. because as the LEFT has currently proven, they will just turn the students against you.
Wow! People better figure it out.
Ouch! She makes Mitt look good.
The teachers unions have done nothing but harm to the kids. It is a shame they, along with all other public employees, were ever allowed to organize in the first place. If teachers were allowed to be motivated by good work and success instead of simply showing up, and were allowed to be fired for doing a bad job, the schools would be a lot better off.
Well so much for doing away with the Department of Education. She’s not the kind of person you turn to for shutting it down.
The Cruz Crew comment looks to be inaccurate. Devos supported Rubio this year. She supported Romney over Santorum in 2012.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/michigan-mega-donor-trump-doesnt-represent-gop/article/2584867
I think the military should always provide a report of what they need from recruits.
Very interesting.
Thank you for posting this.
Is it Amway?
That department just needs to go away.
he’s beginning to lose me too...we will see but maybe he meant it when he said “his people” would follow him anywhere. that was then...this is now. the details are beginning to show conservative - lite..north eastern liberal - heavy! Here come the views of the most favorite daughter and husband...we see...but almost anything better than hitlery...but now even she goes away scott free
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