WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement today regarding the nomination of Betsy DeVos to serve as Secretary of Education:
“I will vote against Betsy DeVos’s nomination to serve as Secretary of Education because her nomination is not in the best interests of the young people of America. She has repeatedly demonstrated her contempt for public education, she plans to maintain financial ties that could create conflicts of interest, and she is unwilling to commit to be a cop on the beat with for-profit colleges that break the law and cheat students.
“Mrs. DeVos has no record in higher education, but I gave her the opportunity to prove to the American people that she is serious about standing up for students. During her confirmation hearing, I asked Mrs. DeVos basic, straightforward questions about her commitment to protecting students and taxpayers from fraud committed by shady for-profit colleges. But she was unwilling to commit to using the Department’s many tools and resources to keep students from getting cheated.
“Mrs. DeVos’s record on K-12 education has been focused on using her vast fortune to push her own ideology on hardworking families that are just trying to get their kids a decent education in public schools. Not only are her ideas completely uninformed by experience with public schools, but the evidence is clear that her privatization theories are bad for students.
“I’ve heard from thousands of teachers, parents, and education leaders in Massachusetts raising deep concerns about Mrs. DeVos. I hear their concerns, and I share their concerns. This includes a letter sent to me from the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association about Mrs. DeVos’s devastating record of promoting for-profit and online charter schools with virtually no accountability or oversight for how well these schools actually serve students and families. Unlike the successful, thoughtful, and innovative education policies we have implemented in Massachusetts with regard to public charter schools, the policies Mrs. DeVos has bankrolled have drained valuable taxpayer dollars out of the public education system in Michigan and left kids worse off.
“It is hard to imagine a less qualified or more dangerous person to be entrusted both with our country’s education policy and with a trillion-dollar student loan program. Congress should reject Mrs. DeVos’s nomination.”
16 thoughts on “Senator Elizabeth Warren rips Trump education nominee Betsy DeVos and “privatization theories””
Wow – listen to the pubic servants cry – about time these fat cat sponges found out what life is all about — boooo hoooo !
She has NEVER worked for, attended or probably stepped into a public school. Not qualified!
At least there is one politician standing up and speaking out against Devos and Trumps insane antics.
I do not understand what this old man is saying
The online for-profit “universities” like Kaplan are salivating. They will have a new avenue to taxpayer funds through these vouchers.
Is she trying to socialize me or brain wash me? – either way granny government DOES NOT KNOW BEST. They are the problem .
You don’t have a brain that could be washed.
It is fact – every venture the so called government controlled cost 10 TIMES MORE than if it were run privately on the free market – starting in 1804 with the American Fur Company to todays TSA and 5 Billion dollar a year loss by the postal service. These government boon doggles are controlled by the government unions and not the American Taxpayer. Drain the swamps.
Wow. Self medicating is not a good idea.
Point of Clarification: The Postal Service receives NO tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
Obama and this commie had their chance and screwed it up. They can’t stop it and shouldn’t.
More grandstanding by Pocohantis. She can’t stop this and she knows it.
Ha, Ha, Ha
yes, we need another 75 years of the black hole.
Keep spending more and more and get less and less
Is this not the same woman marcher who said she was changing her voting preference to MUSLIM ? If so – she is part of the SWAMP !
No it isn’t her, Betsy is a christian and anti common core.