“When you approach a public school, you are protested,” the Democratic congresswoman Frederica Wilson told the education secretary. Chief among them is DeVos who, critics say, is quietly and insidiously destroying public education in America. “We’ve had plenty of Republican as well as Democratic secretaries of education but none of them, even those who believed in alternatives to public education, actually tried to eviscerate public education,” said Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. Pete Buttigieg has vowed that, should he reach the White House, he would appoint a secretary who actually believes in public education. “The scion of wealth and privilege has never had a real job but made it her life’s work to attack public schools, teachers and students.

Source: The Guardian December 27, 2019 07:18 UTC