education secretary
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Betsy DeVos Tells Students Not to be Mean on Twitter. Student Responds: What About Your Boss?
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, also known as Sarah Palin’s play cousin, continues her “I just want to be loved tour” in which she attends events and tries to prove that she actually became the Education Secretary on merit and not because she’s the wife to a very wealthy man. The cabinet position has always been…
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Has a $40 Million Yacht and Vandals Set It Free
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was reportedly holding a $40 million yacht hostage and some good samaritans set the yacht free. Fine, DeVos owns the yacht the $40 million yacht and vandals reportedly untied it from a northern Ohio marina where is was docked and it drifted out to sea. First off, Betsy DeVos has a…
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Betsy DeVos to Schools: Call ICE on Undocumented Children
Does Betsy DeVos care more about furthering the xenophobic and racist policies of this administration than she does about educating the children of this country? The education secretary’s latest statement would lead us to believe that is indeed the case, since she basically told schools to call the police on undocumented children who show up…
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Video Evidence Proves That Betsy DeVos Might Be the Dumbest Person in Trump’s Cabinet
If the fate of the world rested on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ ability to answer a question about anything from elementary-level math to what she ate for breakfast, I’d pray only that we all got at least five phone calls to tell our loved ones goodbye. If DeVos were in a mental-math Olympics against a…
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Betsy DeVos to Speak at Bethune-Cookman University’s Commencement Ceremony
For some reason unbeknownst to many of us, historically black college Bethune-Cookman University in Florida has announced that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will be the keynote commencement speaker next week. The news is super confusing, considering that the pro-school-choice head of education once famously flubbed that HBCUs were the true pioneers of school choice, rather…
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Poor Betsy, Blocked From Entering a DC Public School
It’s safe to say that Betsy DeVos still hasn’t been inside a public school. ABC 7 News caught a glimpse of what happened when the new education secretary tried to enter a Washington, D.C., public school. Operative word here is “tried.” Brave protesters blocked DeVos, and she was quickly escorted back into her blacked-out SUV.…
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Public Education Is Doomed: VP Mike Pence Casts Tiebreaking Vote to Confirm Betsy DeVos
Betsy DeVos, the woman who has no connection to public schooling or experience running a multimillion-dollar anything, was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday as U.S. education secretary. The vote went to a 50-50 split after two Republican senators—Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska—went against their party and voted with their heads…
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2 GOP Senators Say They’ll Vote Against DeVos’ Confirmation as Education Secretary
As the ongoing saga of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet confirmations continues, two GOP senators have come forward and said they will vote against Betsy DeVos for education secretary, giving Senate Democrats two of the at least three votes they will need to block her appointment. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) made their…
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Education Secretary Nominee Betsy DeVos Is a Plagiarizing Machine; Still Passes Senate Committee
The appointed apples fall not far from the corrupt presidential tree. Betsy DeVos—you know, the woman President Executive Order pegged to be the education secretary—looks to have plagiarized at least two of her answers on her Senate-committee take-home exam. Yet the nomination of the controversial billionaire who never attended a public school in her life…