Betsy Prince DeVos

Dear Friends,

Betsy DeVos is another of President-elect Trump's cabinet nominees who is completely unqualified.  There is an op-ed in the Detroit Free Press by Stephen Henderson entitled "Betsy DeVos and the twilight of public education" (here).  It contains all the information you need to demonstrate with facts that Ms. DeVos is not qualified to be Secretary of Education.  I am quoting below one section of the op-ed, but you should read the whole thing.

Unqualified
President-elect Donald Trump has made a number of controversial cabinet nominations already. But none seems more inappropriate, or more contrary to reason, than his choice of DeVos to lead the Department of Education.
DeVos isn’t an educator, or an education leader. She’s not an expert in pedagogy or curriculum or school governance. In fact, she has no relevant credentials or experience for a job setting standards and guiding dollars for the nation’s public schools.
She is, in essence, a lobbyist — someone who has used her extraordinary wealth to influence the conversation about education reform, and to bend that conversation to her ideological convictions despite the dearth of evidence supporting them.
For 20 years, the lobby her family bankrolls has propped up the billion-dollar charter school industry and insulated it from commonsense oversight, even as charter schools repeatedly failed to deliver on their promises to parents and children.
DeVos is a believer, and a powerful influence wielder for the special interest she has championed. But that doesn't make her the right pick to helm an entire arm of the federal government. Wealth should not buy a seat at the head of any policy-making table.
That is true especially in public education — a trust between government and the people that seeks to provide opportunity for those who wouldn’t otherwise have it.

The op-ed also points out the terrible outcomes from the charter schools that she has pushed.  She is not the right person to lead the Department of Education.

There is one additional fact about Betsy DeVos that is interesting.  She is the sister of Erik Prince.  Certainly she should not be held accountable for her brother's actions.  He is the founder of Blackwater, the federal contractor whose employees murdered people in Iraq and who has had many issues with the law.

In any case Betsy DeVos is not qualified to be Secretary of Education.  Please call you Senators and give them your reasons why she should not be confirmed.

Thanks for reading and please comment,
The Unabashed Liberal