The war on Betsy DeVos is all about the teachers unions

Betsy DeVos wants American taxpayers to subsidize private religious schools, which would take needed tax dollars from our public schools and give it to schools and families who do not need it. “Neither she nor her kids went to public schools”. “I think probably there, I would imagine that there’s probably a gun in the school to protect from potential grizzlies“, DeVos said.

Mr. Brown said he opposed her appointment because of her “long-standing support for for-profit charter schools, which have failed OH students and wasted taxpayer dollars”. She has donated heavily to Republican candidates and is a former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party.

That’s why critics of DeVos in Colorado and around the nation are turning up the heat before the final confirmation vote on Monday.

Over two hundred people gathered outside Senator Deb Fischer’s office in a protest against her backing Betsy DeVos.

“It’s been impossible. I’ve never faced anything like it before”, said Michael Morrill, executive director of Keystone Progressive, of trying to get through to Toomey’s office. “I don’t think directing our money to charter schools is a benefit to the children in our country”.

Cindy Cerny, a retired special education teacher at Lincoln Public Schools, comes from a family of four generations of teachers. “I care about my education”, said Celia Poueymirou, a VHS junior at the rally.

But McCain is concerned that DeVos’ main focus is charter schools. That’s what really worries me. “Why do we want to jump the bandwagon in West Virginia if they haven’t worked elsewhere?”

A mere three weeks ago, Goldstein was writing stories against DeVos for the liberal website Slate, featuring hostile headings like this: “Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of education tried to sound like a moderate – and revealed that she’s either underprepared or a zealot”. At her confirmation hearing, she would not commit to following a number of President Barack Obama’s education regulations, on matters including campus sexual assault and reining in low-performing for-profit colleges. “It’s uncertain what that vote’s going to be”.

With two Republicans announcing earlier that they would not support Mrs. DeVos’s appointment, every other Republican’s vote is necessary. Should the tie remain, the decision would come down to Vice President Mike Pence.

“In conversations with her, we just have a very different view of what’s best for our children and a very different view of what’s happening in public education in Michigan”, Stabenow said. The law is a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. But he said never say never.

Proponents of charter schools report that teachers are more attentive to individual students’ needs, can offer smaller class sizes, distance learning opportunities, curriculum flexibility and specialty curricula.

“People have a choice between public education and private education, and if they choose private education, I feel like they should pay for it”, Hopkins said. “But that’s what some Republicans believe”.

“There is not as much need for the Secretary DeVos to seek compromise across the aisle”, McGuinn said.

Before Murphy had to hop a commuter bus to West Haven, which he likes to do when he’s back in CT, he recorded a video with teachers on how they feel senators should vote on DeVos.