Betsy DeVos Deadly Plan to Open Schools

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Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich exposes how Trump's Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is using the pandemic to push her agenda of privatizing education.

What is DeVos' plan to open safely? She doesn't have one. Repeatedly pressed by journalists during TV appearances, DeVos can’t come up with a single mechanism or guideline for opening schools safely.

Let's get one thing straight: Every single parent, teacher, and student wants to be able to return to in-person instruction in the fall — but only if no one’s life is put at risk. Districts need more funding, not less, to implement the CDC’s guidelines. Given that state and local governments are already cash-strapped, it’s estimated that K-12 schools need at least $245 billion in additional funding to put safety precautions in place — funding that Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration refuse to give.
One might think an education secretary would be studying what kind of safety precautions would work best, and seeking emergency funding for those safeguards. Not DeVos. Just like her boss in the Oval Office, she’s been hard at work shafting working families to advance her personal agenda.

DeVos’ entire tenure has centered on shafting low-income students and their families — the very people she’s supposed to protect. She has repeatedly empowered the predatory for-profit college industry at the expense of the students they prey upon. She repealed an Obama-era rule imposing stricter regulations and higher standards on for-profit colleges, and stopped canceling the debts of students defrauded by these institutions.

Now, in the middle of the worst public health crisis in more than a century, she’s jeopardizing the safety of our students, teachers, parents, bus drivers, and custodians, while rerouting desperately needed public school funds towards the private schools she's always championed.

Remember, when you vote against Trump this November — you’re voting against her, too. It’s a win-win.

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