Tag Archives: threats to public education

This Monday, Betsy DeVos is likely to be handed the Department of Education by those Republican Senators that she’s admitted to having bought off

By Mark | February 4, 2017

I can’t say for certain whether or not the dollar amounts indicated on this chart, which was floating around the internet today, are absolutely accurate, but, from what I know about DeVos, and what she herself has said about spending money in order to get politicians to do what she wants, I don’t have much […]

Posted in Education, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Betsy DeVos, buying influence, buying politicians, charter schools, confirmation hearings, Department of Education, Dick DeVos, dismantling of public education, for-profit charter schools, get the money out of Washington, money as free speech, money in politics, schools of choice, threats to Democracy, virtual charters | 24 Comments

We’re just one Republican vote away from stopping Betsy DeVos from taking over the Department of Education

By Mark | February 1, 2017

Today, Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska announced on the floor of the Senate that they would not be voting to confirm President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Assuming neither Senator changes her mind between now and the vote, which is expected to happen as early as […]

Posted in Education, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Betsy DeVos, Dan Sullivan, Dean Heller, Deb Fischer, dismantling of public education, education reform, Jeff Flake, Jerry Moran, Kansas, Lisa Murkowski, Nevada, Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania, public education, school vouchers, Shelley Moore, Susan Collins of Maine, West Virginia | 16 Comments

The fight over the future of public education in America moves to the full Senate, as Betsy DeVos’s nomination for Secretary of Education passes out of committee

By Mark | February 1, 2017

The above photo was taken by my friend Al Hoff today outside an elementary school in Pittsburg. While I imagine it’s possible that someone could have hung the flag upside down by mistake, I suspect it probably has something to do with what’s happening right now in Washington relative to public education. [The upside down […]

Posted in A2Awesome, Education, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Al Hoff, Alaska, Anchorage, Betsy DeVos, Cabinet, charter schools, confirmation hearings, Dick DeVos, dismantling of public education, education reform, for-profit charter schools, Lisa Murkowski, Maine, PTA, public education, religious fundamentalism, religious intolerance, Secretary of Education, Senate, Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions, Susan Collins, virtual charters | 22 Comments

Elizabeth Warren grills Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos, saying she’s unprepared to protect American tax-payers against the waste, fraud and abuse of higher ed swindlers like Trump

By Mark | January 18, 2017

There’s a lot to discuss about DeVos’s performance during yesterday’s confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. There’s one part in particular, however, that I’d like to share. It’s an exchange between the billionaire anti-public education activist and Senator Elizabeth Warren on the subject of how, as Trump’s Secretary […]

Posted in Education, Uncategorized | Also tagged abuse, Bernie Sanders, Betsy DeVos, confirmation hearings, dismantling of public education, Donald Trump, education reform, fraud, public education, Secretary of Education, Trump University, waste | 30 Comments

Secretary of Education pick Betsy DeVos caught on tape, talking about defunding public education in order to “advance God’s kingdom”

By Mark | January 16, 2017

With the Senate confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, set to begin tomorrow, the folks at Politico just released a 2001 recording in which the Amway billionaire explains that her work to defund public education has been done in order to “advance God’s kingdom.” Her comments, according to Politico, were […]