Karran Harper Royal, parent advocate and a founding member of Parents Across America and PAA - NOLA, speaks at Netroots 2012 about how the model of privatization of education in New Orleans is not a model to be replicated and how she is organizing resistance to this myth. (parentsacrossamerica.org)
In her talk, she ripped into Gov. Scott Walker's budget, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's Race to the Top, the obsession with measuring student progress through high stakes testing, privatization of education through charters and vouchers and No Child Left Behind legislation that is closing schools and punishing teachers. (host.madison.com)
While DeVos's personal views remain to be seen, her history of support for privatization of education indicates that she'd support privatization of student loans as well. (studentloans.net)