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The Coming Crusade Against Public Education
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Jan. 17, 2017 | EDUCATION | Betsy DeVos, whose nomination for secretary of education will be reviewed by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today, has never taught in a classroom. She’s never worked in a school administration, nor in a state education system, nor has she studied pedagogy. She’s never been to public school, and neither have her children. But DeVos has been deeply involved in education – as a lobbyist and philanthropist – since the early 19902, particularly in her home state, Michigan, where she pushed to expand charter schools and to implement a voucher system that would funnel public dollars to private schools… Her record is so extreme that her nomination has made some allies of the charter movement queasy, along with teachers’ unions and other public-school advocates… thenation.com Why does this matter? Billionaire Betsy DeVos is actively hostile to public education.
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