Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren made a pledge Monday aimed directly at one of the Trump cabinet's more controversial figures: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
It's a stark contrast to the current head of the department, DeVos, who for decades has supported charter schools and taxpayer-funded vouchers for private and religious schools -- a policy known as"school choice" that critics say drains support from public schools.During the 2018 midterms, she was frequently used as a key symbol of privatizing education in attack ads run by Democrats who touted their support for public schools.
"She and her team are up to their eyeballs in conflicts of interest. Instead of championing our students, they protect for-profit colleges that break the law and cheat them," Warren said. Noting that the Department of Education manages a trillion dollar loan bank, Warren asked whether DeVos had ever run a loan program or taken out student loans herself."So you have no personal experience with college financial aid or management of higher education," Warren concluded at the end of her line of questioning, which was shared widely in Democratic circles and used as a rallying cry to protest DeVos' confirmation.
I think the School Janitor is really more in touch with Students, nominate one of them. Probably not a Liberal Loon either.
That’s a great Idea. She will want summers off. Nothing will get done.
And you get a car and you get a car and you get a car smh
She needs to give it up already! She doesn’t have a chance.
Yawn
She will never be president so she can make all the promises she wants.
Love this woman and her plans
Will this teacher expect to have summers off in this position? Let’s hold failing districts accountable for failing the children. How much more money are we going to throw at a failing system until we break it down & fix it ? Parents,children & teachers need to work together.
If we listen w/american ears instead of democrat or republican ears, we might find out Warren has some good ideas & viable ways to pay for them. Does anyone else?
TRUMP NO-BULLSHIT 2020
Of course, if they can teach 25 kids they should be able to manage 4k employees and a $68b budget. Also announced will nominate an illegal immigrant to head immigration, a paralegal to head up AG's office, a Walmart cashier to head up Commerce, a carpenter to head up HUD ...
Democrats have pledged to nominate: - a woman - a man - a Muslim - a person of color - a teacher - a minority ZERO have pledged to nominate the person best qualified for the job. SMH
WTFC like she’s getting elected.
Not a fan of warren and won’t vote for her either but I do agree with hiring someone with actual knowledge of the public school system.
please be me
Brilliant...from all that's been written and said about Warren, she'll probably pick a Kindergarten teacher.
She want even win the Democratic nomination
Which tells you that the federal Dept of Education is pretty much useless anyway.
What? No multiple-yacht-owning oblivious anti-education witch?
Well that’s a novel idea
How many ppl in her audience?
I love this!! I hope the other candidates pledge to do this as well.
The Queen of Gimmicks is at it again.
Neat, He/She will want to roll in at 8am, knock off at 2:30, have a thanksgiving break of a week, Christmas break of three weeks, spring break and have 10 weeks off for summer.
Then you’ll have someone like MN gov Walz. Beware
I guess that means we won't have a teacher as Secretary of Education.
Well we have a dunce now so it’ll definitely be a step up
if she should get that far, the woman is nuts and should not be taken seriously.
How about someone w experience heading a dept?
Don't quit your job if you are a public school teacher
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