Trump's nominee for Secretary of Education --Michigan billionaire and proponent of school vouchers -- Betsy DeVos is going before the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP). Your Senator is the HELP Chair and has tremendous power in this situation.

Call HELP Chair , Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN) and let him know Betsy DeVos is unfit to be the Secretary of Education. Then let us know how the call went and help us keep track of how many calls he received.

Senator Alexander D.C. Office
(202) 224-4944

Betsy DeVos' numerous projects include the disastrous effort to spread for-profit-charters in Detroit, which failed to increase student achievement while allowing charters to operate with little accountability or oversight. She also has an appalling record on civil rights, which indicates she will be a threat to LGBTQ children, especially transgender students, who face prejudice, harassment and bullying in schools and suffer from higher rates of depression and suicide than non-LGBTQ classmates.

Betsy DeVos has never taught in, attended, or sent her kids to a public school. Her entire rap sheet it comprised of doggedly advocating to take money out of public schools, put God at the center of all education and funnel money in for-profit education schemes that have left Michigan students far behind the curve.

With a Secretary of Education DeVos we can look forward to Trump's plan to redirect some $20 billion dollars in federal aid to "school choice" -- a buzz word we will also get our fill of if she gets the appointment that is code for "poor children don't matter -- coming to fruition. Much of that money would come from Title I programs that act as safety nets for educational opportunity in the communities that need it most.

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