Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education?
Donald Trump has tapped Betsy DeVos, a billionaire GOP mega-donor and lobbyist bankroller with ties to the Koch family, to serve as his Secretary of Education. Her only experience in public education is waging a campaign to gut public schools by diverting taxpayer dollars to private and religious schools, which only serve 9% of American students.
Here are the facts:
- DeVos was the architect of what “even charter advocates acknowledge is the biggest school reform disaster in the country.”
- She ran an organization that was fined nearly $5.3 million for an illegal lobbying effort.
In addition to working to drain taxpayer dollars from public schools:
- DeVos has been linked to a push to bring back child labor.
- She donated to an organization that advocates teaching creationism in science classes.
- The DeVos family has bankrolled efforts targeting marriage equality and other LGBT protections.
An inexperienced billionaire lobbyist like Betsy DeVos isn’t going to fix schools — she’s going to hurt public education, working families, and millions of our children in the process.
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