School Board drafts letter opposing DeVos as Secretary of Education

A final vote to confirm her is expected to come next week, with the outcome resting on a razor-thin margin. If it comes to a tie, Vice President Mike Pence holds a tie-breaking vote. Toomey gets a daily summary of the calls and emails. Tillerson was confirmed. He also opposes Tom Price for secretary of Health and Human Services and Betsy DeVos for education secretary.

As a first-generation college student, now studying English and Communications at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, it is my view that Betsy DeVos is not suited for the post of Education Secretary. DeVos angers the extreme left because she exposes their hypocrisy. If DeVos and the Trump administration works to bring school choice and vouchers into the system, Sanders and the leftists will be out of their minds.

They would be the first Republicans to break party ranks and vote against one of Trump’s cabinet selections. The group is spending, according to Politico, a half-million dollars on the ads.

Despite lack of support from the Republican Senators, White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer voiced certainty that Betsy DeVos will still be nominated.

She says through technology and good instructors, the state is solving the issue.

One Williams County resident wrote: “She has zero experience in public education, as a teacher or administrator, nor has she overseen massive public department budgets which could threaten funding for ND schools and the education and the futures of our North Dakota students”.

The rest of the calls, she said, yielded busy signals or no answer at all.

Two Republicans made clear they won’t vote for DeVos, leaving her with just 50 affirmative votes if no Democrats or independents support her. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of NY calls her “one of the worst nominees”.

Hundreds of people protesting U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey’s Philadelphia office to publicly demand he vote against Trump’s pick, who has never attended or sent children to a public school. He said he wouldn’t.

Committee Democrats on Tuesday had boycotted the vote, forcing Republicans to scrap a requirement that at least one Democrat be present for a vote. DeVos is the former head of the American Federation for Children, which supports school vouchers, private education and other forms of school choice. “I think probably there, I would imagine that there’s probably a gun in the school to protect from potential grizzlies”, DeVos said. “My question is should we make make public colleges and universities tuition free for every family in America, regardless of their income, to be able to give their children higher education”.

Amy Graham, a spokeswoman for Capito, said Saturday evening in an email that Capito still plans to vote in favor of Devos. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio). Roberts chose DeVos over his constituents. “She is an inappropriate choice to lead our public schools”.

“I’ve gotten nothing but busy signals”, he said.

So why has DeVos garnered such strong opposition? Joe Donnelly says he will vote against Jeff Sessions, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general.

When her repeated calls failed to convince U.S. Sen.