{"id":1029551,"date":"2024-02-07T18:42:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T18:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1029551"},"modified":"2024-05-20T03:25:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T03:25:16","slug":"reminder-betsy-devos-helped-donald-trump-carry-out-his-assault-on-americas-public-education-system-and-hes-vowing-to-go-even-further-in-a-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-betsy-devos-helped-donald-trump-carry-out-his-assault-on-americas-public-education-system-and-hes-vowing-to-go-even-further-in-a-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"REMINDER: Betsy DeVos Helped Donald Trump Carry Out His Assault on America\u2019s Public Education System, and He\u2019s Vowing to Go Even Further in a Second Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>As we mark seven years since Betsy DeVos\u2019s confirmation as Donald Trump\u2019s education secretary,&nbsp;<strong>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cBetsy DeVos helped lead Donald Trump\u2019s all-out assault on America\u2019s public education system \u2013 putting students last and attacking public schools and hardworking teachers. After DeVos spent years undermining the department she was supposed to be running, Trump is now campaigning on taking his extreme education agenda even further by abolishing the Department of Education, putting more guns in classrooms, and leaving those struggling under student debt without relief. Everyday families cannot afford to let Trump get back in charge of America\u2019s education system, and they won\u2019t let him or DeVos get the chance this November.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DeVos worked with Trump to undermine America\u2019s public education system \u2013 DeVos repeatedly insulted public schools and teachers despite being extremely unqualified for the education secretary position.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/dec\/27\/betsy-devos-trump-republicans-education-secretary\">The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cSince taking office<strong>, [DeVos] has proposed billions of dollars in cuts to her own department, hitting class size reductions, after-school programmes, full-service community schools and student loan forgiveness.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/education\/wp\/2018\/02\/12\/devos-seeks-massive-cuts-from-education-department-to-support-school-choice\/\">Washington Post<\/a>:&nbsp;<strong>\u201cMore than $1 billion would be spent on private school vouchers and other school choice plans under the budget proposal released Monday by President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.<\/strong>&nbsp;The proposal also calls for slashing the Education Department\u2019s budget and devoting more resources to career training, at the expense of four-year colleges and universities.&nbsp;<strong>The proposal would cut $3.6 billion \u2014 about 5 percent \u2014 from the Education Department by eliminating several discretionary programs, including one that funds after-school activities for needy children and another that covers teacher training.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/policy-politics\/devos-would-be-first-ed-sec-who-hasnt-been-a-public-school-parent-or-student\/2016\/12\">Education Week<\/a>: \u201cDeVos Would Be First Ed. Sec. Who Hasn&#8217;t Been A Public School Parent or Student.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/local-education\/after-school-trip-betsy-devos-insults-teachers-for-their-receive-mode\/CI8F0xUS2CBLjI9DI1dZGO\/\">Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>: \u201cAfter school trip<strong>, Betsy DeVos insults teachers for their \u2018receive mode\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox61.com\/article\/news\/local\/outreach\/awareness-months\/ed-secretary-devos-calls-out-east-hartford-schools-as-a-dangerous-daycare\/520-4fd643d7-5cf1-4b98-99af-4ed57a87fee9\">Fox61<\/a>: \u201cEd. Secretary DeVos calls out East Hartford schools as \u2018a dangerous daycare\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trump and DeVos both now want to abolish the Department of Education entirely.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v3hdtzq-agenda47-president-trumps-ten-principles-for-great-schools-leading-to-great.html\">Trump<\/a>: \u201cOne other thing I\u2019ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/mar\/4\/trump-plans-abolish-us-education-department-if-ele\/\">Washington Times<\/a>: \u201cTrump plans to abolish U.S. Education Department if elected\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/07\/18\/betsy-devos-tampa-moms-liberty-department-education\/10084634002\/\">USA Today<\/a>: \u201cEx-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says the Department of Education \u2018should not exist\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trump and DeVos worked to limit student loan forgiveness and weakened protections for Americans defrauded by for-profit schools \u2013 prioritizing greedy corporations over students.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/08\/30\/devos-forgiving-student-loans-1697959\">Politico<\/a>: \u201cDeVos tightens rules for forgiving student loans\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday finalized rules that make it more difficult for federal student loan borrowers to cancel their debt on the grounds that their college defrauded them, scaling back an Obama-era policy aimed at abuses by for-profit colleges.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/08\/31\/devos-trump-forprofit-college-education-242193\">Politico<\/a>: \u201cTrump and DeVos fuel a for-profit college comeback\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/19\/business\/student-loan-forgiveness-betsy-devos.html\">New York Times<\/a>: \u201cA DeVos System Allowed 12 Minutes to Decide Student Loan Forgiveness\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFormer Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made no secret of her disdain for a program intended to forgive the federal student loans of borrowers who were ripped off by schools that defrauded their students. She called it a \u2018free money\u2019 giveaway, let hundreds of thousands of claims languish for years and slashed the amount of relief granted to some successful applicants to $0. \u2026&nbsp;<strong>In Ms. DeVos\u2019s final year in office, her agency denied nearly 130,000 claims \u2014 far surpassing the 9,000 rejections in the prior five years \u2014 with a system that pressured workers to speed through applications in a matter of minutes,<\/strong>&nbsp;according to internal Education Department documents filed in federal court.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trump has a long record of opposing student loan relief, including taking credit for blocking and railing against President Biden\u2019s efforts to address the student loan debt crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/08\/24\/republican-presidential-candidates-on-student-loan-forgiveness.html\">CNBC<\/a>: \u201cFormer President Donald Trump\u2026 has a long record of opposing student loan forgiveness.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2024\/01\/05\/no-recent-announcement-by-trump-to-forgive-student-loans-fact-check\/72119589007\/\">USA Today<\/a>:&nbsp;<strong>\u201c[Trump] has not mentioned deferring student loan payments or terminating payroll tax as part of his 2024 presidential campaign<\/strong>\u2026. Neither issue is mentioned anywhere on Trump\u2019s 2024 campaign website, and it is unlikely either will become part of his campaign plan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/news\/507ec2e1-cc96-4412-8824-c39222ade1f6\">Trump campaign press release<\/a>: \u201cLast week, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down massive wins for the American people\u2014 halting Joe Biden\u2019s unconstitutional student loan gimmick\u2026 One thing is clear: these wins were&nbsp;<strong>only made possible through President Trump\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;strong nomination of three distinguished and courageous jurists to the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/01\/13\/trump-biden-student-loan-forgiveness-459085\">Politico<\/a>:&nbsp;<strong>\u201cTrump administration tries to hamstring Biden on student loan forgiveness\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Trump administration on Wednesday sought to throw up a bureaucratic roadblock to progressives\u2019 push for the incoming Biden administration to cancel large swaths of outstanding student loan debt through executive action.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DeVos suggested guns needed to be in schools because of grizzly bear attacks and then led a school safety commission that played down the role of guns in school shootings.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trumps-education-secretary-pick-betsy-devos-guns-schools\/story?id=44852427\">ABC News<\/a>: \u201cBetsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick for education secretary, raised eyebrows during her confirmation hearing by refusing to say guns shouldn\u2019t be in schools and quipping that in one case in Wyoming, they would help protect against grizzly bears.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5301750\/betsy-devos-school-safety-commission-gun-violence\/\">Time<\/a>: \u201cTrump\u2019s Education Secretary Says School Safety Commission Won\u2019t Look at Role of Guns in School Shootings\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-administration-school-safety-report.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&amp;smtyp=cur\">New York Times<\/a>: \u201cTrump Administration Report on School Safety Plays Down Role of Guns\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/trumps-safety-panel-recommends-schools-consider-arming-personnel\/2018\/12\/18\/5600734e-0269-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s Federal Commission on School Safety, formed after a mass shooting at a Florida high school<strong>, recommended Tuesday that school systems consider arming personnel and advised against increasing the minimum age required for gun purchases.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trump is promising to use taxpayer dollars to give guns to teachers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ap.org\/editorial-photos-videos\/detail?itemid=97388003ab4443938dba616244ea0117\">Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cTrump calls for arming teachers at NRA convention\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-says-mass-shootings-arent-gun-problem-nra-convention-rcna79775\">NBC News<\/a>: \u201c[Trump] said that he would establish a tax credit to subsidize gun purchases and training for teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trump and DeVos shamefully went after protections for transgender students.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/trump-administration-rolls-back-protections-for-transgender-students\/2017\/02\/22\/550a83b4-f913-11e6-bf01-d47f8cf9b643_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump administration rolls back protections for transgender students\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DeVos and Trump rolled back efforts to reduce racial bias in schools, and DeVos expressed extreme ignorance about HBCUs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/trump-administration-revokes-effort-to-reduce-racial-bias-in-school-discipline\/2018\/12\/21\/3f67312a-055e-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump administration revokes effort to reduce racial bias in school discipline\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/28\/politics\/betsy-devos-hbcu-school-choice\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>: \u201cSupporters of historically black colleges and universities say US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos needs a history lesson after calling schools created in response to racial segregation \u2018pioneers\u2019 of school choice.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/28\/politics\/betsy-devos-hbcu-school-choice\/index.html\">DeVos<\/a>: \u201cHBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice. They are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trump\u2019s MAGA allies have devised a plan for Trump to phase out billions for low-income schools through Title I funding, which Trump proposed redirecting while in office.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com\/project2025\/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-11.pdf\">Project 2025<\/a>&nbsp;calls for&nbsp;<strong>phasing out Title I education<\/strong>&nbsp;funding over a ten-year period, eventually placing responsibility on states to determine \u201chow to provide a quality education to children from low-income families.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/a-deep-dive-on-how-title-i-funds-are-allocated\/\">Brookings<\/a>:&nbsp;<strong>\u201cTitle I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) directs funds to local school districts as a function of the number or percentage of economically disadvantaged children living in the district.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/education\/la-me-trump-budget-education-20170523-htmlstory.html\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>:&nbsp;<strong>\u201cThe Trump administration is proposing to use $1 billion in Title I money to pay for a new school-choice program.<\/strong>&nbsp;The $550-million increase in Title I that a recent budget deal gave states would be cut from their shares of the regularly scheduled funding formula moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we mark seven years since Betsy DeVos\u2019s confirmation as Donald Trump\u2019s education secretary,&nbsp;DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:&nbsp; \u201cBetsy DeVos helped lead Donald Trump\u2019s all-out assault on America\u2019s public education system \u2013 putting students last and attacking public schools and hardworking teachers. 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