Another name emerges as a Theranos investor: Trump education nominee Betsy DeVos

DeVos has been under intense public scrutiny for her stance pitting public schooling against charter schools in MI – particularly in the Detroit school system which has suffered greatly under emergency managers and a city bankruptcy.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee met Tuesday to consider the nomination of Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos without all the information the senators need to ask the right questions and make an informed decision. Was it because she donated billions to the Republican Party?

A child who’s doing poorly needs a school that can help him catch up, so his parents should look at growth statistics. The Potter’s House opened in 1981 to serve children in a low-income neighborhood.

Critics say such policies jeopardize America’s public schools.

“I don’t think we should make it any more hard than necessary” for students to complete the forms, she said.

Charters are public schools, created and led by parents seeking alternatives better than what the union controlled, bureaucratic, autocratic, top heavy, one size fits all, unaccountable “blob” offers them.

She has invested millions of dollars in schemes to siphon moneys from public schools.

To the parents of special education students who are still on this journey, I ask that you remember these past parents and don’t be fooled that it is all about “choice”. As she said “I have chose to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence”. Instead, DeVos said, states should get to decide whether they want to embrace private school choice.

“DeVos has no meaningful experience in the classroom or in our schools”.

Sirico says DeVos has cultivated friendships over the years with people from all backgrounds and is known for her compassion. But she has also invited people who differ from her to have a respectful conversation to clear the air.

She’s wealthy. Well, yes, most philanthropists are.

That’s why the U.S. Senate should reject her nomination.

She notes that DeVos seems most concerned about parents’ choice of the “learning environment” for their children, while the content of what is learned can not be chosen.

Warren pointed out that most public-school placement is based on ZIP code. His key education proposal, besides eliminating the Common Core State Standards, has been to pour federal money into expanding state voucher programs so families can take their children out of public schools. She hasn’t – so what was the point of this question except to portray her as a religious zealot hell-bent on bringing her “overtly Christian agenda to Washington” – as per a 20-page screed by Politico – and besmirch her passion for school choice as a ploy to turn over schools to Christian churches? They fear businesses profiting from private schools, an under-regulated environment and a loss of funding for public schools. That is the selection or rejection of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education. “The end is the education and proper formation of children”. DeVos is also answering 837 written questions submitted by committee Democrats, compared with 81 questions combined that Republicans submitted in writing to Obama’s two secretaries of education. Most people expect that these will be the issues that she focuses on most during her time as Secretary of Education. This is absurd innuendo built on the $10,000 in donations that she and her husband gave to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.