Betsy DeVos in This Fight Is Our Fight, by Elizabeth Warren

On Education: OpEd: Kids never attended public schools

Trump's choice for the head of the Department of Education took a similar approach to regulatory oversight [as EPA head Scott Pruitt took with the EPA]--with the added bonus that she used her multibillion-dollar fortune to support efforts to undermine public schools in her home state of Michigan. Betsy DeVos has long supported initiatives that allow for-profit schools to soak up tax dollars while fighting off bipartisan efforts to raise standards for public schools. She and her family donated a small chunk of their fortune, $1.47 million, to an organization that seeks to cripple the Detroit Public Schools. Neither billionaire DeVos nor her children ever attended a public school, but that did not shake her confidence that her notions of privatizing public education would work just fine for everyone else's families. Source: This Fight is Our Fight, by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, p. 245 Apr 18, 2017

The above quotations are from This Fight Is Our Fight The Battle to Save America's Middle Class by Elizabeth Warren. Click here for other excerpts from This Fight Is Our Fight The Battle to Save America's Middle Class by Elizabeth Warren. Click here for other excerpts by Betsy DeVos. Click here for a profile of Betsy DeVos.
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