I admit, I don’t know much about Betsy DeVos. All I do know is that she is a big GOP donor and supporter of charter schools. And now she has been picked for Trump’s Secretary of Education.
| Michigan’s Betsy DeVos picked as Trump’s Secretary of Education |
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President-elect Donald Trump has picked Betsy DeVos, a top Republican donor and school choice activist, to head the Department of Education, the Trump transition team announced Wednesday.
Trump met with the billionaire donor and conservative activist this weekend at his golf club in New Jersey, where he hosted a slew of potential cabinet appointees. Trump offered DeVos the position on Tuesday and she accepted the same day, a senior Trump transition official told CNN.
“Betsy DeVos is a brilliant and passionate education advocate,” Trump said in a statement Wednesday. “Under her leadership we will reform the U.S. education system and break the bureaucracy that is holding our children back so that we can deliver world-class education and school choice to all families.”
DeVos chairs the American Federation for Children, a group that promotes charter school education, and also served on the board of the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a group led by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush — one of Trump’s GOP primary opponents — which promoted both school choice and the Common Core education standards.
I’ll let others judge if Betsy DeVos is a good pick for Secretary of Education or not. I know really nothing of this woman. DeVos being for school choice is a good sign at least.