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Defiant Ed Sec. Slips Past Angry Mob: ‘No School Door in America Will Be Blocked’
Cybercast News Service ^ | February 10, 2017 | 5:41 PM EST | Craig Bannister

Posted on 02/10/2017 7:41:27 PM PST by Olog-hai

With the aid of D.C. School and U.S. Education Department staff, Education Sec. Betsy DeVos eluded screaming protesters blocking the door of a D.C. public school where she was scheduled to meet with education advocates on Friday. […]

After the meeting, DeVos issued a defiant statement, saying she won’t let protesters keep her from doing her job of improving the U.S. educational system:

“I will not be deterred in executing the vital mission of the Department of Education. No school door in America will be blocked from those seeking to help our nation’s school children.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: devos; education; jeffersonacademy; liberalagenda; nea; publicschools; rioters; unions
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1 posted on 02/10/2017 7:41:27 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

...........just close your department down Betsy, throw the key to Trump and go home!


2 posted on 02/10/2017 7:43:44 PM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Olog-hai

Bravo, Betsy! Stand tall.


3 posted on 02/10/2017 7:46:35 PM PST by Ciexyz (Happy days are here again, with Trump/Pence!)
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To: Olog-hai

“screaming protesters”
Little Johnny and Sally’s teachers.


4 posted on 02/10/2017 7:46:37 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: Cen-Tejas

Arrest those protestors. What the heck are they protesting anyway? Reading, writing and arithmetic?


5 posted on 02/10/2017 7:47:04 PM PST by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: Olog-hai

Go, Betsy! Michigan strong.


6 posted on 02/10/2017 7:52:45 PM PST by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and VP Mike Pence Daily)
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To: oldasrocks

When it comes to traditional math versus commie core math, then the former is exactly what they’re “protesting”. Among other absurdities.


7 posted on 02/10/2017 7:53:05 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Boom! Democrats standing in the school door... like Little Rock.


8 posted on 02/10/2017 7:56:51 PM PST by DesertRhino (.)
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To: Olog-hai

Boom! Democrats standing in the school door... like Little Rock.


9 posted on 02/10/2017 7:56:52 PM PST by DesertRhino (.)
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To: DesertRhino
And Alabama.



10 posted on 02/10/2017 8:02:37 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Olog-hai

Just following in the steps of her boss when he went around protesters during the campaign. Leftist protesters are old news for the Trump team.

https://www.facebook.com/FoxNews/videos/10154260442931336/


11 posted on 02/10/2017 8:04:09 PM PST by xp38
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To: Olog-hai

This was outrageous. So the Ed Sec is gonna have to sneak in when she wants to visit a failing public school?


12 posted on 02/10/2017 8:04:58 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: DesertRhino

For all the world to see. And in DC this time.


13 posted on 02/10/2017 8:06:17 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Great article from Dr. Larry Arnn on the education.

Great advice to the new DOE secretary

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/01/hillsdale-college-president-larry-arnn-getting-federal-government-education/


14 posted on 02/10/2017 8:12:42 PM PST by Popman
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To: Olog-hai

“No school door will be blocked” ——? Wut?
OMG. That’s BRILLIANT, Betsy!
Invoke RUBY BRIDGES!!
The little black girl whose parents wanted her to have a CHOICE to go to a better school...and RACISTS blocked the door!!
Go, Betsy!


15 posted on 02/10/2017 8:13:33 PM PST by mumblypeg (Make America Macho Again.)
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To: DesertRhino
Boom! Democrats standing in the school door... like Little Rock.

She needs to tour the same school.

16 posted on 02/10/2017 8:14:29 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Olog-hai

That swamp is quite muddy.

Trump does a hell of a job exposing the little communists.


17 posted on 02/10/2017 8:14:30 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Bratch

He stood aside, note well, and honestly should be a hero of the integration movement.


18 posted on 02/10/2017 8:18:22 PM PST by dr_lew (I)
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To: dr_lew

Bookmark Betsy


19 posted on 02/10/2017 9:19:07 PM PST by ptsal
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To: Olog-hai
Democrats at it again...


20 posted on 02/10/2017 11:29:32 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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