Everything you want to know about Betsy Devos and why she should not be confirmed to this position of Secretary of Education.
The day of the DeVos appointment .... "Tonya Allen, president and CEO of the Skillman Foundation, and co-chair of Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren, said on Wednesday that she is extraordinarily happy for DeVos and is grateful she is a supporter of Common Core." http://www.detroitnews.com/…/trump-devos-education/94344918/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
"Michigan parent activist Karen Braun tells Breitbart News DeVos never used any of her time or wealth to assist parents in her state in their efforts to repeal Common Core. “DeVos prefers to be out of the limelight and let others like the Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) do the heavy lifting,” Braun says. “But activists and lawmakers in Michigan know her pro-Common Core position very well.”
http://www.breitbart.com/…/bush-praises-trump-choice-betsy…/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
“Her organization, American Federation for Children, contributed HUGE sums of money for state school board races in Alabama on the side of Common Core supporters trying to oust Common Core opponents.”
“Trump’s transition team reported that his “discussion with DeVos was focused on the Common Core mission, and setting higher national standards and promoting the growth of school choice across the nation.” I wanted to scream when I heard those words! “Setting higher nations standards” is code for Common Core. National standards are what Common Core was designed to be.”
http://newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh373.htm #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
“Many of us are skeptical that she is not a supporter of Common Core as she has not spoken out against it one time during the seven years it was being implemented and as she sat on the Board of Jeb Bush’s organization, Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE).”
“If she doesn’t see major problems with ESSA, FERPA regulations which are meaningless and the increased data tracking of students from birth/Pre-K through their careers, then your concerns about Ms. Devos as Education Secretary (her lack of educational experience, NGO connections) are probably well-founded. It will also be incumbent upon those in the confirmation hearings to question her on exactly what she has done to raise student achievement.”
http://missourieducationwatchdog.com/stuffing-the-public-e…/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
“It simply doesn’t make sense that DeVos would contribute boatloads of money to – and even lead — organizations that actively push a policy with which she disagrees. Would a pro-life philanthropist write checks to Planned Parenthood because the abortion mill provides the occasional Pap test?”
https://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/…/trumps-common-cor…/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
“DeVos argues that she supports these groups’ advocacy of school choice but not Common Core. But the Trump transition team itself announced that Trump’s “discussion with [DeVos] was focused on the Common Core mission, and setting higher national standards . . . .” And even without this admission, it simply doesn’t make sense that DeVos would contribute boatloads of money to – and even lead -- organizations that actively push a policy with which she disagrees. Would a pro-life philanthropist write checks to Planned Parenthood because the abortion mill provides the occasional Pap test?”
http://townhall.com/…/jane…/2016/11/30/jebs-revenge-n2252295 #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
“DeVos and GLEP lobbied the Michigan legislature to implement and maintain Common Core and related reforms. Former MI State Representative, now State School Board member-elect Tom McMillin, recently spoke to our team about DeVos and her claim that she is against Common Core. McMillin, a strong opponent of Common Core, recalled that in 2013 DeVos specifically told him she was for Common Core during the very contentious legislative debate to stop implementation.”
DeVos, who backed Sen. Marco Rubio during the primary, and then served as an at-large delegate for Ohio Gov. John Kasich at the Republican National Convention, was opposed to Trump’s nomination for president, referring to him as an “interloper” who would never achieve the nomination because he didn’t “represent the Republican Party.”
http://www.breitbart.com/…/common-core-opponents-trump-dra…/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
“Michigan supporters of the Common Core standards are praising President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head up the U.S. Department of Education.”
http://www.breitbart.com/…/michigan-common-core-supporters…/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
"So much so that his pick for Secretary of Education is now backtracking on her years of actions financially supporting Common Core. She sits on Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education. This foundation LOVES Common Core and all that comes with it. DeVos, through the Betsy and Steve DeVos Foundation, poured millions of dollars into pro-Common Core candidates."
https://exceptionaldelaware.wordpress.com/…/america-is-get…/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
"I've seen (and written about) the policy influence of the FEE (and others against Common Core) right here in Oklahoma during our Common Core fight (and apparently, education activists in Michigan have witnessed the exact same top-down policy-pushing from the DeVos Foundation first hand). I KNOW how money creates and dictates policy, yet I thought this to be EXACTLY the kind of thing you said you would fight against as president. None of this bodes well for American education moving forward, nor our trust in you to uphold your campaign promises."
http://reclaimoklahomaparentempowerment.blogspot.com/…/ques… #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
"Hensley-Clancy writes that DeVos now claims to be against Common Core, of all things! That’s sure news to all the grassroots folks she pit her big money against during their legislative battles to reject Common Core. Grassroots folks report to me that DeVos’ husband personally called state senators in Michigan to get them to vote against a Common Core repeal bill. DeVos’ American Federation for Children also contributed huge sums of money for state school board races in Alabama on the side of Common Core supporters trying to oust Common Core opponents."
https://www.conservativereview.com/…/betsy-devos-as-educati… #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommnonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
"Betsy DeVos has no record of Common Core opposition. The website statement and tweet the day she was appointed were the first indications of being against Common Core ever documented. In fact, she has been described as supporting Common Core by Tonya Allen of the Skillman Foundation in the Detroit News. There is absolutely no record of her or any of the three major organizations that she has founded, chaired or still chairs, and funds The Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP), The American Federation for Children (AFC), and the Philanthropy Roundtable (PR) ever having opposed Common Core. She never reached out to, and in fact, steadfastly refused to meet with or assist Stop Common Core in Michigan in any way. The GLEP executive director even threatened these parents with legal action."
http://www.flstopcccoalition.org/…/betsy-jeb-high-standard…/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
MidEast Policy Council’s “Teach MidEast” and its “Bridges at School” curriculum. (She’s also a Common Core supporter and fought to make this anti-Israel crap part of the Common Core agenda taught at America’s public schools.)"
"Betsy DeVos and her husband Dick DeVos (also born into money) are donors and contributors to ACCESS–the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services. And they also attend ACCESS annual fundraising dinners."
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/…/betsy-devos-affirmative-a…/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
MICHIGAN SCHOOLS
“If you look at the DeVos role and engagement in Michigan politics over the last three decades, you’ll see a very consistent brand and pattern of political contributions,” McNeilly said. “Seldom have they accurately been called part of the establishment.” However if you ask any grassroots Republican or active Tea Party member, they will tell you otherwise.”
http://settingrecordstraight.blogspot.com/…/why-is-devos-fa… #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
“DeVos and the Great Lakes Education Project* (GLEP) group she has funded and directed, still have time to support this bill and demand it be put on the calendar and voted on. *Unfortunately, GLEP had previously stated that they “support common core”, perhaps they have since changed their mind? Sadly, another group partnered with GLEP, the Michigan Coalition for High Student Standards, actually testified against SB-826 on April 19, 2016.”
http://missourieducationwatchdog.com/michigan-has-bill-to-…/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
“ DeVos is part of the Lansing “swamp.” Through her group, Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) she works to silence opposition and defeat legislation that would stop Common Core in Michigan.”
“We change policy through political effort. to elect or defeat candidates in states based on this issue [school choice]. Their support or lack of support for the issue. Then we work on the policies, the legislation, the actual programs that they would consider. and we advocate to get those passed in the legislatures and with the Governors.”
http://stopcommoncoreinmichigan.com/…/dick-betsy-devos-adm…/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
“In 2014, for example, DeVos and her husband Doug donated $1.45 million to Michigan lawmakers to defeat a bill that would have increased scrutiny of publicly-funded, for-profit charter schools.”
http://ateacheronteaching.blogspot.com/…/betsy-devos-amway-… #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
"As one of the architects of Detroit’s charter school system, she is partly responsible for what even charter advocates acknowledge is the biggest school reform disaster in the country. At least some of the other candidates for education secretary, like Michelle Rhee, the former District of Columbia schools chancellor, led reforms that were accompanied by improved student results."
http://mobile.nytimes.com/…/betsy-devos-and-the-wrong-way-t… #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
“Michigan is one of the nation’s biggest school choice laboratories, especially with charter schools. The Detroit, Flint and Grand Rapids school districts have among the nation’s 10 largest shares of students in charters, and the state sends $1 billion in education funding to charters annually. Of those schools, 80 percent are run by for-profit organizations, a far higher share than anywhere else in the nation.”
“The DeVoses, the most prominent name in state Republican politics, have been the biggest financial and political backers of the effort.”
“But if Michigan is a center of school choice, it is also among the worst places to argue that choice has made schools better. As the state embraced and then expanded charters over the past two decades, its rank has fallen on national reading and math tests. Most charter schools perform below the state average.”
https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/…/trump-ed-sec-pick-betsy-…/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
DATA MINING
“Apparently, Ms. DeVos supports allowing big technology companies to datamine children, 50,000 data points per hour, without parents knowing about it or ever seeing how the data are shared, used and profiled.”
“DeVos is Chair of The Philanthropy Round Table, a group that focuses on Venture Capital Philanthropy (and making “serious money“) and also promotes computer-based datamining and as an added bonus, this group Chaired by Devos is also excited about Common Core.”
http://missourieducationwatchdog.com/dreambox-datamining-d…/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
OHIO ELECTION FINES
"A pro-school-choice organization once directed by Besty DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary, owes a record $5.3 million in fines to the Ohio Elections Commission."
http://www.dispatch.com/…/Group_once_led_by_Trump_education… #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
MUSLIM CONNECTION
To be clear, Michigan has the most concentrated Muslim population outside of the Middle East. This is in large part because of an organization called the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), based in Dearborn, Michigan. ACCESS, is the largest social services nonprofit org in the nation and was founded by Ismael Ahmed. As noted here, where it is shown Ahmed was running for the MI Board of Education, “Ismael grew ACCESS into a national human service and advocacy agency with affiliates in 24 cities.”
ACCESS, is funded by the Dick and Betsey Devos Foundation along with http://teachmideast.org/about/featured-partnerships/
http://www.voicesempower.com/trump-devos-national-security…/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
CLINTON DONATIONS
West Michigan Politics reported that, like Donald Trump himself, the DeVos family has donated to the Clinton Foundation:
According to a WMP analysis of Clinton Foundation records, the DeVos family donated between $60,000-$130,000.
http://www.educationviews.org/trump-education-chief-pick-b…/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
STEVE DEACE
Check out The Legacy of Thanksgiving. Deace speaks about the DeVos choice starting at 2 minutes. https://player.fm/series/steve-deace-show-117577 #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
Dangers of Vouchers
Dangers of vouchers. Trump’s voucher plan. A 38 minute podcast on vouchers and their danger by KrisAnne Hall, lawyer and Constitutional advocate. There is a full all out push coming and it will be led by DeVos. If successful it will accomplish putting parents under control of federal gov. Will increase money spent by feds on education from $540,000,000 to $130 billion ($20B from the feds and $110B from the states) if the Trump plan is implemented. Control of all parents/children under the poverty level if they sign on to new voucher programs. Take the money and take the mandates of national curriculum and national methodology.
https://www.podomatic.com/…/episo…/2016-11-29T07_29_17-08_00 #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommnonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
Those answers “combined with her record of support for very regulated voucher plans in Indiana and Louisiana that require administration of the state (Common Core) tests … is extremely concerning for the autonomy and viability of private schools,” she adds.
http://www.breitbart.com/…/sen-lamar-alexander-delays-vote…/ #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommnonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
Anyone else notice the DeVos donee's are praising her and not the grassroots, parents and school activists?
If DeVos was truly anti-common core, someone will be able to list her activism and donations towards anti-common core causes. Hell, I'll take a minimal anti-common core statement. Start the day before her appointment (11/16/16) then go back years. Is there anything? Please list it below.
This is from Jeb Bushes Excellence in Education (Excel In Ed) national common core/Fed Ed education institute. This was taken the day of the DeVos appointment (11/16/16). If she was so anti-common core why is she on this board and a major donor? Alternatively, do you think Jeb had a board member that was working against him on his board ... for years? Do you think she’d donate to a cause she doesn’t believe in… for years?
Trump was the one who said he would end the DoED. He was the one that said he would end common core. Trump said he only hires the best people. So when Trump has the opportunity to translate his campaign language into action, he appoints a pro-common core person. This is holding Trump to his word. He failed. That isn't a past grievance between us, it's an action he chose to do. Nothing to do with me.
What would you be saying if Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, was selected as the head of HSS? Then the day of that appointment Richards swears that she is now prolife and will only pursue prolife policies. Wouldn't you be skeptical? Or more likely, wouldn't you scream foul at the fundamental betrayal? #StopDeVos #Trump #StopCommonCore #WakeUpAmerica #KellyanneConway #TCOT #CCOT #CommonCore
Please explain how you can be a top donor and board member of the national pro common core Jeb Bush Foundation, then have an appointment day epiphany and wash years of pro-common core activism and millions of dollars in donations away?
Both FreedomWorks and Heritage will endorse their mega donor. The legislators, prone to follow the money and not do their homework, will hide behind that endorsement and confirm her. The DeVos' have given millions to their state party and the RNC. Simply put, they can't afford not to confirm her.
Because "choice" is a false choice... it comes with control that homogenizes and degrades almost all education over time. The only uncontrolled schools will be those that don't accept state aid, vouchers, etc. and those will, of course, the super expensive schools that only the elite can send their children to.
"Choice" is a trap. Parents run to it to escape the mess that is being made of public education only to find that education reform relentlessly follows them wherever they go. There is no escape with ESSA and WOIA. You *WILL* be assimilated.
School Choice is just a vehicle the CCSS virus uses to spread. So now, instead of all public schools being hobbled by CCSS curriculum and testing, now nearly all schools will be hobbled. In so doing, of course "choice" becomes no real choice at all. We just end up with a bunch of crappy schools... some private, some charter, some public... all indistinguishable, at least at the classroom level.
Adding accountability and competition to schools just turns our current socialized education entitlement into a fascist education mandate. They are both now vehicles for top down control. Just different faces of the same Statist coin. There is no educational freedom here. There is no marketplace. There is no choice. Its all just control and the serfs collar just gets tighter with each passing day.
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