by Jeff Bryant | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog
Betsy DeVos had a rocky Senate confirmation hearing in committee before the panel split along party lines while voting to send Trump's nominee for education secretary to the full Senate. Subsequently, two Republicans who took part in the hearing, Susan Collins of...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 30, 2017 | Blog
As protests swept the nation this weekend, you may have overlooked the wave of pushback against Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Education Department. From Los Angles to Washington, D.C., students, teachers, parents and public school...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog
Left-leaning people everywhere got a big yuk when Betsy DeVos, during her confirmation hearing for US Secretary of Education, cited "potential grizzlies" as a reason to allow guns at schools. As evidence for her assertion, she referenced an earlier exchange she'd had...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 25, 2017 | Blog
In one of the testier moments in what was the testiest ever confirmation hearing for US secretary of education, Democratic Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia questioned if nominee billionaire Betsy DeVos would demand the same kind of accountability from the full range of...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 19, 2017 | Blog
So Betsy DeVos doesn’t know much about education policy. Didn’t we already know that? Nevertheless, the hot takes coming after her rocky confirmation hearing for the US Secretary of Education nominee read as if people are genuinely surprised that someone who has never...
