{"id":19634,"date":"2017-02-07T01:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T01:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19634"},"modified":"2017-02-07T01:52:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T01:52:18","slug":"betsy-devos-for-ed-secretary-no-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19634","title":{"rendered":"Betsy DeVos for ed secretary? No way!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I know it’s still a long shot, but I am going to implore the U.S. Senate to “just say ‘no'” to “Billionaire Betsy” DeVos as the next secretary of education.<\/p>\n

Just as I believe Donald J. Trump is still unfit for the presidency, he has chosen an equally unfit individual to lead the nation’s public<\/em> education program.<\/p>\n

I emphasize the word “public” for what I believe is a valid reason.<\/p>\n

DeVos has zero direct exposure to public education.<\/p>\n

She was educated in private schools. Her children have attended private schools. DeVos has talked openly about creating a voucher program for parents, allowing public tax money to subsidize the private education of their children.<\/p>\n

Her Senate committee confirmation hearing revealed DeVos’s utter ignorance of public education policy. She believes we should arm teachers with firearms to supposedly deter gun violence in schools.<\/p>\n

The president can do far better than to nominate someone other than DeVos, whose only “qualification” has been the large amounts of money she has raised for Republican politicians — including the president himself.<\/p>\n

Two Senate Republicans — Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine — have said they won’t vote for DeVos. That puts the count at 50-50, assuming all Democrats and the two independents who caucus with them, vote against DeVos.<\/p>\n

Will there be another Republican senator with a conscience who’ll realize that the president has made a mistake in nominating this know-nothing to\u00a0run the Education Department.<\/p>\n

I am hoping one can emerge.<\/p>\n

Then the president can look for someone who knows something<\/em> about the agency he or she would lead.<\/p>\n\n

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I know it’s still a long shot, but I am going to implore the U.S. Senate to “just say ‘no’” to “Billionaire Betsy” DeVos as the next secretary of education. Just as I believe Donald J. Trump is still unfit for the presidency, he has chosen an equally unfit individual to lead the nation’s public … Continue reading Betsy DeVos for ed secretary? No way!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251],"tags":[6864,6691,1424,3766,6908],"class_list":["post-19634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","tag-betsy-devos","tag-department-of-education","tag-donald-trump","tag-public-education","tag-vouchers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19636,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634\/revisions\/19636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}