"She has consistently pushed a corporate agenda to privatize, de-professionalize and impose cookie-cutter solutions to public education." —Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association
"When Michigan lawmakers this year were considering a measure that would have added oversight for charter schools in Detroit, members of the DeVos family poured $1.45 million into legislators’ campaign coffers — an average of $25,000 a day for seven weeks. Oversight was not included in the final legislation.” —Chalkbeat
"[Betsy DeVos] is partly responsible for what even charter advocates acknowledge is the biggest school reform disaster in the country." —The New York Times
Better schools were never the end goal. I think, from day one, the real objective has always been to kill the teachers unions, while, at the same time, funneling public money into the hands of private corporations. —Mark Maynard
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