Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos sided with Charles Koch over students at every turn. She won’t be missed.
Betsy DeVos
Critics say the moral outrage expressed by resigning cabinet members rings hollow after years of enabling Trump.
President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Miguel Cardona, tapping a third Latinx person to join his cabinet.
The remarks come after the billionaire dismissed student loan forgiveness as “government gift-giving.”
The threat to democratically governed schools that preceded DeVos will continue during the Biden presidency.
The billionaire school privatization zealot lashed out at a popular proposal to cancel student loan debt.
Progressive educators seeking to reverse neoliberal privatization cannot be certain they’ll have Biden’s backing.
John James tried to distance himself from Betsy DeVos as a super PAC funded by her family poured millions into the race.
The Education Department is pulling resources from underfunded districts to punish them for trans-inclusive policies.
One school district nixed a proposed pilot with a Koch-backed microschool, but the model is spreading amid the pandemic.