Category: DeVos

Seattle Teacher: Dear Betsy DeVos, You’re Not Welcome Here

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn Betsy DeVos, DeVos, Education Funding, social justice unionism, Uncategorized7 Comments

This article was first published at The Progressive. Dear Betsy DeVos, My name is Jesse Hagopian and I teach ethnic studies at Seattle’s Garfield High School. I hope you didn’t just stop reading this letter after you heard the subject I am teaching—I urge you to keep reading. I am writing in regards to the …

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Has Been Confirmed; And the Resistance Has Too

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn Black Lives Matter At School, Charter Schools, DeVos, social justice unionism, Uncategorized2 Comments

Betsy DeVos–platinum card member of the 1% and leading corporate education reformer–was voted in today by the Senate as the next U.S. Secretary of Education.  With the vote deadlocked at 50-50, Vice President Mike Pence, cast his vote for Ms. DeVos and announced that President Trump’s nominee for education secretary had been confirmed.  As I …

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