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Elizabeth Dee DeVos

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11th and current United States Secretary of Education

Assumed Office on February 7, 2017

Republican Party known for supporting  school choice, school voucher programs, and charter schools

This was the first time in U.S. history that a Cabinet nominee's confirmation was decided by a 51–50 margin, Vice President Mike Pence's tie-breaking vote

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Republican National Committeewoman for Michigan from 1992 to 1997

Michigan Republican Party from 1996 to 2000, with reelection to the post in 2003

Advocate of the Detroit charter school system and she is a member of the board of the Foundation for Excellence Education

Alliance for School Choice and the Action Institute and headed the All Children Matter PAC

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Education Secretary Confirmation Hearing Video

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Education Secretary Confirmation Hearing Video

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full video of hearing from C-SPAN
January 17, 2017

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The New York Times wrote “It is hard to find anyone more passionate about the idea of steering public dollars away from traditional public schools than Betsy DeVos.”

Known as a "a fierce proponent of school vouchers" she promotes allowing students to attend private schools with public funding.

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CPAC in 2017

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Betsy was nominated by Trump to be the Secretary of Education

During the hearing, Betsy failed to answer a question concerning whether public and private schools should receive equal accountability

Betsy wants to take the tax-payer money from public schools, giving it to private schools instead

A flaw with this plan is that the private schools would not be held to the same standards as public schools

Student performance within a school can be observed with either proficiency or growth

When questioned, Betsy failed to understand the matter of proficiency vs growth

growth= the amount that students improve

proficiency= what the students know

During another point in her hearing, Betsy reported that student debt has risen 980% over the past 8 years, but this was found to be a blatant lie, as the real increase is 118%

Senator Murphy, from Connecticut, then questioned DeVos over her viewpoint on whether guns should be allowed in schools and she defended the acceptance of guns in schools on the off chance that a bear attack may occur

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11 Priorities for U.S. Education Department:  

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11 Priorities for U.S. Education Department:  

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1. Empower Families to choose a Higher Quality Education
2. Fostering & Promoting Developmental Skills to be informed citizens.
3. Meeting Unique Needs of Students, and Children
4. Promoting Math, Science, Technology, and Engineering  with a focus on computer science.
5. Promoting Literacy
6. Promoting Effective Instruction in classrooms
7. Promoting Economic Opportunity.
8. Encouraged improved school climate, and safer environment.
9. Ensuring the service members have a opportunity at a higher education.
10. Fostering Flexible, and Affordable paths for education.
11. Promoting Innovation, and Efficiency especially with student outcomes.

All of these were just released by DeVos October 12, 2017.

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1. Wants to revamp Title IX so that victims do not have to sue their way through school and that they provide more protection and guidelines
2. Doing a 300 day overview of schools to see how they can pull back funding/government overreach.

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1. Schwartz talks about how the problems that go on in the "real world" or outside the classroom became a problem in the classroom and therefore becomes a teachers so that fact that DeVos is trying to make the educators role more prevalent in Title IX would be looked highly upon
2. Schools need funding and Schwartz talks about how the wage issue is a teaching issue. It is critical that we have the proper funding in schools so that we can raise kids to have a fair shot at changing their lives if they are born into a family below the poverty line and struggling. Schwartz would dislike this line of action.

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Berliner and Glass debunk the myth that a teacher is the most important part of the students education. They believe that there are more important outside factors that influence a student and that is outside of the teachers control. With their ideology they might appreciate Devos pushing for school choice and vouchers. If outside issues are outside of the teachers control, maybe it could be in government control. The power of choice helps parents provide their kids with he education they may not have been privileged to and the gift of vouchers helps social-economical issues that kids are born into.

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Berliner, D. C., & Glass, G. V. (2014). 50 myths and lies that threaten America’s public schools: The real crisis in education. New York, NY: Teachers

Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education -- Biography. (2017, April 26). Retrieved October 17, 2017, from https://www2.ed.gov/news/staff/bios/devos.html

Schwartz, K. (2016). I wish my teacher knew: How one question can change everything for our kids. Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo Press.

Strauss, V. (2017). Betsy DeVos releases her priorities for US Education Department Grants. Guess what's #1. The Washington Post. Retrieved October 17, 2017 from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/10/12/betsy-devos-releases-her-priorities-for-u-s-education-department-grants-guess-whats-no-1/?utm_term=.0a91e87b2011

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Twitter: @BetsyDeVos

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Full clip of Betsy DeVos including both her speech and answering questions.

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The first and second generations of the DeVos family. Left–right: Dick & Betsy, Cheri, Helen & Richard, Daniel & Pamella and Doug & Maria

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- Might have to be more flexible to different types of teachers
-Students might be disbursed by reputation of school creating completion for jobs

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-With choice becoming more of an opinion, it is important to get involved with the growth of schools and programs so you can voice your opinion with what you want for the current and future students.