After I wrote about Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of education, a few weeks ago, I started getting e-mails from the Friends of Betsy DeVos.
That’s why presidential spokesman Sean Spicer had to call a press briefing to make it clear that (in spite of those pesky photographs) Trump attracted the biggest inaugural crowd ever. And that everyone at the CIA is “ecstatic” that he’s now their leader. Especially since a week ago, Trump was comparing them to Nazis.
When Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse asked what should be done if charters and other privately run schools (which can cherry-pick their students) drain money from the public schools, leaving them unable to fulfill their mandate to educate every child, DeVos said that’ll be “an issue best addressed at the state level.”
The committee vote has been rescheduled for January 31, but Sanders and Democrats on the committee are asking for a second hearing before they decide.
