Arizona’s struggling public schools offer a glimpse of what America’s public schools might look like under Betsy DeVos’ national voucher program.
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Betsy DeVos’s Cynical Defense of the Trump Education Budget Cuts
The Education Secretary makes the case before Congress that “less money” becomes “more latitude.”
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Free Education, or Freedom From Education? A Deep Dive Into DeVos
Journalist and public education advocate Jennifer Berkshire traveled to the heart of DeVos-land — the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Michigan — to learn more about Betsy DeVos and her family’s life-long attempt to dismantle the “nanny state.”
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Holy Warriors Against the Welfare State
A trip to the DeVos seat of power in Michigan, home of evangelism and Amway.
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What the Thousands of Calls Against Betsy DeVos Say About American Public Schools
Congress was inundated with thousands of phone calls from people urging their representatives to vote against Trump’s education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos. Given her poor performance during confirmation hearings, her lack of experience, and her history of supporting attempts to dismantle traditional public education, Americans had visceral, negative reaction to DeVos. But this defense of […]