Through her tenure, she, at various times, has proposed cuts to funding for civil rights investigations , after-school and school lunch programs, and even the Special Olympics.
For three straight years, DeVos and Trump have proposed eliminating the 21st Century Community Learning Centers initiative , which provides high-quality after-school programs to students nationwide. DeVos has sided with corporate interests over students; in the process, her policy moves have often favored those collecting student loans over those paying them back.
Last year a judge held her in contempt of court for violating a court order to stop collecting loans from students of a defunct for-profit college. She founded and provided much of the funding for a group dedicated to promoting charter schools in Michigan , whose head thinks it's appropriate to talk about shaking the female state official who challenged him, just like he claims to do to his wife.
And she managed to insult dedicated public school teachers from the beginning. Great work, Secretary DeVos. Really first class. For unaccountable private school values of "first class.
We have a lot of work to do in order to protect the free and comprehensive education every child in this country is entitled to. Our public schools are too precious to lose. Please let your representatives on the local, state, and federal levels know that you're watching, and you will hold them accountable for the decisions they make.
And watch this space for ways to oppose Secretary DeVos's misguided mismanagement of our nation's schools. The views expressed are those of the author s and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
A confirmed adorer of the good science of rock-breaking, Dana Hunter explores geology with an emphasis on volcanic processes, geology news, and the intersection of science and society. Already a subscriber? Sign in. Back to Search Results. Get the latest Progressive news Sign up for our free email newsletter! Chief among them is DeVos who, critics say, is quietly and insidiously destroying public education in America.
A billionaire philanthropist, DeVos, 61, attended a private Christian school in Michigan and sent most of her children to private Christian schools; she has had little exposure to public education.
She became a champion of privately run, publicly funded charter schools and vouchers that enable families to take tax dollars from the public education system to the private sector. Since taking office, she has proposed billions of dollars in cuts to her own department, hitting class size reductions, after-school programmes, full-service community schools and student loan forgiveness.
Even Trump overruled her on plans to gut the Special Olympics, and she has recently run into opposition from the Democratic-controlled House, which passed significant budget increases. The programme was expanded under Barack Obama but DeVos has been accused of stalling it for more than a year while she altered the rules and made it harder for students to get loan relief, resulting in a large backlog.
Last month, a federal judge held DeVos in contempt for violating an order to stop collecting loan payments from former Corinthian Colleges students, a for-profit college chain that collapsed in amid allegations that it lied about the success of its graduates in order to get students to enroll.
The long charge sheet against DeVos also includes the withdrawal of federal guidance, developed under the Obama administration, that spelled out protections for transgender students under title IX of the Education Amendments Act of
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