{"id":1004191,"date":"2019-04-11T14:34:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T18:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1004191"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:04:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:04:02","slug":"devos-shows-again-shes-failing-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/devos-shows-again-shes-failing-students\/","title":{"rendered":"DeVos Shows (Again) She’s Failing Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Secretary Betsy DeVos testified before Congress yesterday and struggled to defend her department\u2019s disastrous policies. In her two years as Education Secretary, DeVos has dismantled protections for students, attacked teachers\u2019 unions, and made quality higher education less affordable. Yesterday, Democrats made her answer for it.<\/p>\n

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DeVos admitted she knew the risks of rescinding protections for transgender students — but did it anyway.<\/p>\n

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Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cRepresentative Suzanne Bonamici, an Oregon Democrat, pressed DeVos on how her department was protecting transgender students from discrimination since the revocation of the 2016 protections\u2026 Bonamici then asked DeVos if she knew about a study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics that revealed \u2018alarming levels\u2019 of attempted suicide among transgender youths when she rolled back the guidance. \u00a0\u2018I\u2019m aware of that data,\u2019 DeVos responded.\u201d<\/p>\n

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DeVos was unable to defend her decisions to undermine state-level enforcement of student loan companies who deceived borrowers or misused funds.<\/p>\n

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Detroit News<\/a>: \u201cSeveral lawmakers questioned why DeVos has made it harder for states to police the companies responsible for millions of dollars in student loan contracts.\u00a0 Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Connecticut, ripped into the secretary over the poor performance of the loan servicers, noting the department\u2019s internal watchdog had found 61 percent non-compliance in basic functions such as not recording payments from student borrowers and reporting them to credit agencies inaccurately. \u2018Not only are we seeing this kind of batting average by the department regulating loan servicers, but under your leadership you’ve taken numerous steps to undermine state enforcement of student borrower protections,\u2019 Courtney said.\u201d<\/p>\n

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True to form, DeVos continued her unrelenting attacks on teachers\u2019 unions.<\/p>\n

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Detroit News<\/a>: \u201cNorcross demanded to know why free-market groups supported financially by the DeVos family have since backed campaigns trying to persuade teachers to quit their unions. \u2018In reality, teachers are being targeted, spammed, coerced by groups such as the Mackinac Center for Public Policy \u2014 that you probably know something about \u2014 and from the Freedom Foundation,\u2019 Norcross said. \u2018If teachers are choosing to join unions \u2014 why the two foundations that you\u2019re family\u2019s associated with are the top givers to those groups that are trying to get people to leave? \u2026 Why would you do that?\u2019 \u2018Congressman, I\u2019m an advocate for freedom across the board,\u2019 DeVos said before launching into a pitch about a proposal to help teachers with professional development.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Detroit News<\/a>: \u201c\u2018So do you believe in that teachers should have the ability to join a union?\u2019 Norcross said. \u00a0\u2018Clearly, they should,\u2019 DeVos replied, \u2018And they should have the ability to not if they decide not to.\u2019 \u00a0Norcross continued to press DeVos on whether she believes in supporting foundations that \u2018coerce\u2019 teachers to drop out of their union.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As for the affirmative action guidance her department rolled back last summer? DeVos says she\u2019s \u201cnot familiar.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Politico<\/a>: \u201cEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos told a House panel Wednesday that she is \u2018not familiar\u2019 with affirmative action guidance for schools that the Trump administration rescinded last summer, or with a major Supreme Court ruling on which portions of the guidance were based. The administration in July rescinded several guidance documents issued by the Education and Justice departments under the Obama administration that called on school superintendents and colleges to consider race when diversifying their campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Secretary Betsy DeVos testified before Congress yesterday and struggled to defend her department\u2019s disastrous policies. In her two years as Education Secretary, DeVos has dismantled protections for students, attacked teachers\u2019 unions, and made quality higher education less affordable. 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