Rep. Mark Pocan Betsy DeVos is unfit to lead the Education Department. It's time for her to resign.
She will never resign. damn
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/betsy-devos-unfit-lead-education-department-it-s-time-her-ncna990241
Rep. Mark Pocan Betsy DeVos is unfit to lead the Education Department. It's time for her to resign.
April 2, 2019, 4:08 PM CDT
By Rep. Mark Pocan, U.S. Representative
Last week, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos appeared before the House Appropriations Committee to attempt to justify the Trump administration’s 2020 budget request. During the committee hearing, members of Congress — Democrats and Republicans — had the opportunity to ask her about a number of programs and funding decisions that we found problematic to our students, educators and schools. Her answers only reinforced a truth we have known for two years: Secretary Betsy DeVos is wholly unfit to oversee this vital department and must resign before her actions wreak even more havoc than has already occurred.
We’ve long known that President Donald Trump was proposing dangerous and irresponsible cuts to many critical programs, from Medicaid and Social Security, to special education and medical research. However, during Tuesday’s hearing with DeVos, representatives pressed her on some of her agency’s most devastating cuts, including those to Special Olympics, Gallaudet University and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. DeVos could not defend cutting or eliminating these programs, instead only claiming, “We had to make some difficult decisions.”
When Trump first nominated Betsy DeVos to lead the Department of Education, there were many red flags that both Congress and the American public noticed.
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During her confirmation hearing, DeVos' lack of background in public education became even more clear when she gave downright incoherent, confusing, and non-sequitur responses to questions on some of the most pressing issues facing American students today. She also failed to grasp the critical role that the Department of Education plays in students’ lives, especially for those who may have special needs.................................................
When she said that enforcement of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act — a federal program that is our nation’s leading source of funding for students in special education programs — is “best left to the states,” her nomination should have been withdrawn. She was instead confirmed by the Senate with Vice President Mike Pence casting the tie-breaking vote, the first time in history a vice president has used that power to confirm a nominee to the Cabinet....................................
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