Education Dept.’s LGBT Employees Make Plea to DeVos

“They are not bound to the same laws of political gravity” as DeVos and her team, he said. They were glad for the opportunity to engage with Secretary DeVos during our conference, and submitted thoughtful questions to learn more about her plans. And he, in turn, said at DeVos’ swearing in that his vote to break the tie on DeVos’ confirmation was the easiest he ever cast.

Notably, DeVos has repeatedly stressed that education policy is better made at the state and local level, which, if she sticks to her word, should allay any rational concern that what we’ll see is expansive federal overreach into education, which certainly should be avoided. California Teacher Association capo Eric Heins referred to the nomination as “a blow to our nation”.

In the Huffington Post, Dale Hansen sums up many liberals’ views when he claims, “The recent appointment of Betsy DeVos has proved one thing – conservatives are far more concerned about politics than they are about educating children”.

President Trump nominated DeVos for the position on November 23, 2016. “That is not an exaggeration in any sense”. Despite thousands of calls and emails Republican senators received from constituents, all but two voted to confirm DeVos. Protestors blocked DeVos from entering Jefferson Middle School Academy, demonstrating against DeVos’ platform of “school choice,” which many believe disadvantages public schools in favor of privately-run (and even for-profit) schools.

“I do not believe that missing more school and creating a divide between the students and the faculty will be constructive in protesting DeVos”, Morey said in a statement to the press, “so I am proposing a more proactive and united course of action”.

An Education Department spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

The threat to Wisconsin public schools from this new administration only adds to the list of reasons why Wisconsinites need to re-elect Tony Evers for state superintendent in April. Its sole focus is on improving education outcomes. As a public figure, DeVos might have influence on Congress and local educational leaders. Furthermore, in the highly decentralized U.S. Department of Education, the system of checks and balances works very well.

DeVos has been billed as an outsider.

While the establishmentarians are choice-phobic, parents aren’t.

“There may be a misnomer that our schools aren’t good”, he continued, “They are good”. Seven schools did so badly, state Superintendent John White barred them from accepting new voucher students – though the state agreed to keep paying tuition for the more than 200 voucher students already enrolled, if they chose to stay.

“If that’s a population they want to serve, then they need to design a system that is better for [those] students”, said Andrew McEachin, of RAND Corporation, an author of the new report. A major player in the funding and direction of private school voucher programs, DeVos’s disdain for public education has been scrutinized by politicians from both parties.

Last year, I had the privilege of interviewing Jack Abramoff, disgraced lobbyist caught in a scandal in 2004 involving the defrauding of his Native American tribe clients and related bribery and corruption of public officials.

“If you have a severe disability, their argument will be that we can’t support you”, Pankowski said.

According to the National Center of Education Statistics, a public charter school is defined as a “publicly funded school that is typically governed by a group or organization under legislative contract (or charter) with the state or jurisdiction”.