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Betsy DeVos Tells Kentucky That Now is the Time for Charters and Vouchers | Diane Ravitch's blog

Betsy DeVos Tells Kentucky That Now is the Time for Charters and Vouchers | Diane Ravitch's blog
Betsy DeVos Tells Kentucky That Now is the Time for Charters and Vouchers




Betsy DeVos traveled to Kentucky to sell her used goods (schmattes is the Yiddish term): charter schools and vouchers.

For DeVos, a pandemic is the perfect time to push school privatization. Day in, day out, for 30 years or so, DeVos has been promoting charters and vouchers.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – School choice supporters should “insist” that state and federal policymakers back measures like public charter schools and scholarship tax credits amid the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Monday…

“I know in all of the years that I have advocated for state-level policy empower parents, never before have we had an environment like we have today, and so I believe that now is the time to raise voices more loudly than ever before and to insist on policy changes that need to take place….”

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