Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, seen in April testifying on Capitol Hill, defended her free-market approach to public education Monday at at the national conference of the Education Writers Association. Appearing at the national conference of the Education Writers Association, DeVos took a few shots at teachers unions. Notice that I said families — families, not government,” she said. “In too many stories about this proposal, I see the term ‘public money,’ ” DeVos said. She then quoted former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher as saying that government “has no source of money other than the money people earn themselves.”“There is no such thing as ‘public money,’ ” DeVos said.

Source: Washington Post May 06, 2019 22:24 UTC