DeVos Confirmed

[buckeye45_73]

Thank you Mike Pence and good to see they Republicans who need to be defeated, without losing a confirmation!


Another stinging loss for the democrats.

Tillerson.....confirmed
Devoss..confirmed


Maybe one day democrats will get their heads out of their asses, but keep protesting and blocking everything........er Trying to block everything. Lolololololololol

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

LOL!!!!

 

[SassyIrishLass]

On to Gorsuch!!!!

 

[Thunderbird]

Great news for all the children who will benefit from school choice.

 

[WillowTree]

I listened to Murray's impassioned speech about " extreme right wingers" I sincerely hope they keep it up. She did not mention her constituents rioting, looting, beating folks up and shouting obscenities though. Ha!

 

[Nia88]

As a teacher I am extremely disappointed. The fact that she is a republican or basically brought her position doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that she has 0% experience in education and never taught a day in her life.

In the end our children will suffer.

 

[Thunderbird]

Let's empower students and parents instead of tired, bloated bureaucracies. Why should only the rich have school choice? Competition is better than monopoly: school choice means bad schools go out of business and good schools thrive.

Check out the article: Education at a Crossroads | RealClearPolitics

 

[SassyIrishLass]

As a teacher I am extremely disappointed. The fact that she is a republican or basically brought her position doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that she has 0% experience in education and never taught a day in her life.

In the end our children will suffer.

The children are suffering now, public education is a nightmare

 

[Nia88]

As a teacher I am extremely disappointed. The fact that she is a republican or basically brought her position doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that she has 0% experience in education and never taught a day in her life.

In the end our children will suffer.

The children are suffering now, public education is a nightmare

I agree that public school system needs some changes. But hiring someone who doesn't have clue teaching or education isn't the solution.

DeVos doesn't even want to make public schools better. She wants to get rid of them altogether. She's a staunch advocate of charter schools but many of them are worse than public schools.

 

[SYTFE]

As a teacher I am extremely disappointed. The fact that she is a republican or basically brought her position doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that she has 0% experience in education and never taught a day in her life.

In the end our children will suffer.

That's what Republicans want.

 

[blackhawk]

Betsy DeVos has been confirmed as education secretary with VP Mike Pence casting the tie breaking vote. She was the one the Democrats really wanted to defeat the most now that they failed I wonder if this will stop the dragging their feet on cabinet nominees?

 

[saveliberty]

As a teacher I am extremely disappointed. The fact that she is a republican or basically brought her position doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that she has 0% experience in education and never taught a day in her life.

In the end our children will suffer.

The system as is, is broken. A new approach could be very helpful. She did not brought nor bought her position. No money changed hands. Try honesty, I hear it works in the classroom too.

 

[ZZ PUPPS]

As a teacher I am extremely disappointed. The fact that she is a republican or basically brought her position doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that she has 0% experience in education and never taught a day in her life.

In the end our children will suffer.

The children are suffering now, public education is a nightmare

I agree that public school system needs some changes. But hiring someone who doesn't have clue teaching or education isn't the solution.

DeVos doesn't even want to make public schools better. She wants to get rid of them altogether. She's a staunch advocate of charter schools but many of them are worse than public schools.

Yet here you are "teaching" lies about her.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Queue the "spontaneous" protests and rioting!!!


3 - 2- 1 and GO!

 

[ZZ PUPPS]

As a teacher I am extremely disappointed. The fact that she is a republican or basically brought her position doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that she has 0% experience in education and never taught a day in her life.

In the end our children will suffer.

That's what Republicans want.

Liar

 

[waltky]

Pence casts tie-breaking vote to confirm DeVos as education secretary...

Pence breaks Senate tie to confirm DeVos as education secretary
Tue Feb 7, 2017 | WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's choice of billionaire Betsy DeVos to be education secretary was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, but only after Vice President Mike Pence was called in to break a tie that threatened to defeat her.

The tie-breaking vote, which Senate officials said was unprecedented to confirm a president's Cabinet nominee, came after two Republicans joined with 46 Democrats and two independents in opposition to DeVos. Critics have called her unprepared to lead the Department of Education.

Betsy DeVos testifies before the Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee confirmation hearing to be next Secretary of Education on Capitol Hill in Washington​

DeVos becomes U.S. education secretary as Pence breaks tie

 

[saveliberty]

I agree that public school system needs some changes. But hiring someone who doesn't have clue teaching or education isn't the solution.

DeVos doesn't even want to make public schools better. She wants to get rid of them altogether. She's a staunch advocate of charter schools but many of them are worse than public schools.

Oh really?

A new study of charter schools shows that they are making a meaningful difference for underserved kids in many of our nation’s cities, but it also highlights new challenges for the movement.

Researchers at Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes, or CREDO, released the new report yesterday, which looks at the impact of charter schools in 41 urban areas. The researchers used a rigorous research design that compares learning gains for students enrolled in charter schools to those of similar students in traditional public schools in their districts.

On net, the findings are good news for charter schools: Across the 41 cities studied, students in charter schools learned significantly more than their peers attending traditional public schools – 40 more days worth of learning in math, and 28 more in reading.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/knowl...charter-schools-making-a-difference-in-cities

Somebody is scared and protecting their job.

 

[Dragonlady]

Thank you Mike Pence and good to see they Republicans who need to be defeated, without losing a confirmation!


Another stinging loss for the democrats.

Tillerson.....confirmed
Devoss..confirmed


Maybe one day democrats will get their heads out of their asses, but keep protesting and blocking everything........er Trying to block everything. Lolololololololol

This isn't a loss for Democrats. It's a loss for every student in America. This woman is not only unqualified, she's uneducated, and can't form a proper sentence. Much like her boss.

If you think this appointment is a good choice, you're more interested in sticking it to Democrats than with fixing education problems.

 

[Nia88]

As a teacher I am extremely disappointed. The fact that she is a republican or basically brought her position doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that she has 0% experience in education and never taught a day in her life.

In the end our children will suffer.

The system as is, is broken. A new approach could be very helpful. She did not brought nor bought her position. No money changed hands. Try honesty, I hear it works in the classroom too.

She donated quite a lot of to Trump's campaign and donated money to a lot of other republican senators.

I could see if she actually has experience in education then you could say hard work. This woman doesn't even know the difference between proficiency and growth.

 

[l.todd]

As a teacher I am extremely disappointed. The fact that she is a republican or basically brought her position doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that she has 0% experience in education and never taught a day in her life.

In the end our children will suffer.

They will do no worse than they already are. And really, who cares if she has no experience in education? She will not be in the classroom educating kids. What she will do is allow a competitive system whereby people who do have experience can innovate and be rewarded, with the hope that positive changes will spread throughout the country, instead of the same old crap dictated by a top-down bureaucracy.