These protests continue to take place any time
DeVos speaks in public.
Not exact matches
Education secretary Betsy
DeVos will
speak to members of Magnet Schools of America this afternoon
in her first
public address as secretary outside of the Education Department.
It's no secret that
DeVos has long supported unaccountable, for - profit charter schools and vouchers, which drain
public schools of critical resources and offer no choice for the most vulnerable students — those with special needs, those who don't
speak English, and those living
in poverty.
But White
speaks for many anti-Common Core parents around the country when she notes: «We've already been through eight years of «transformational change»
in public education and we don't need any more... I want a [n] Education] Secretary to hand off responsibility over education to the parents where it belongs... Yet, here is
DeVos «ensuring» me of «opportunities» for my children — whom she doesn't know —
in order to make sure she can benevolently «give» my kids what they need to fulfill their «highest potential» — which is MY job.»