Another Pay to Play Trump cabinet pick.
Donald Trumps appointees and cabinet picks don't tap America's best and brightest but seem to be for sale to the billionaire who was most aggrieved by an agency, to punish and dismantle as they see fit.
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How the DeVos got so rich? They are the ultimate Amway salespeople. The tippy top dogs of multi level marketing giant, Amway. In my humble opinion that makes them exploiters of others and complete souless assholes.
Donald Trumps appointees and cabinet picks don't tap America's best and brightest but seem to be for sale to the billionaire who was most aggrieved by an agency, to punish and dismantle as they see fit.
Privatize, Monetize, Weaponize: How the DeVos family devoured Michigan’s schools
As Michiganders know, Betsy and Dick DeVos are religious and school privatization/choice/voucher zealots. They were humiliated by the twin failures of voucher legislation in 2000 and Dick’s loss in the Michigan governor’s race to Jennifer Granholm in 2006, and these dual humiliations resulted in the development of the DeVos’ “long-game” strategy to achieve their goals of privatizing public education:
- destroy the Democrats biggest single source of financial support by gutting teacher unions via Right to Work legislation
- capitalize on the elimination of the charter school “cap” to explode the number of non-regulated and for-profit charter schools in the state
- use charter schools as the mechanism to “blur the lines” between public and private/religious schools
- use this “blurring” of boundaries between church and state to build public support for the redistribution of public funds to religious and private schools
a two-tiered educational system:The timeline below offers a narrative sketch of some of the pivotal events and influences that have shaped Ms. DeVos’ views on education over the years, and provides a context for what her policy stances and positions are likely to be as Secretary of Education.
One, a system of elite private and religious schools for well-to-do, mostly White parents with the means to afford expensive tuition payments, staffed by qualified, certified teachers, with a rich curriculum based on face-to-face instruction in clean, safe, well-maintained schools…
The other, a parallel system of “fly by night” virtual and online “schools” that open and close seemingly at random, and for-profit charters operated by scam artists like Northern Michigan’s Dr. Steve Ingersoll, with little to no state or federal regulation or oversight, and a bare bones, “back to the basics” curriculum delivered by unqualified and uncertified “teachers”.
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How the DeVos got so rich? They are the ultimate Amway salespeople. The tippy top dogs of multi level marketing giant, Amway. In my humble opinion that makes them exploiters of others and complete souless assholes.
