Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is today meeting with Rex Sinquefield, a Donald Trump-supporting Republican me
- Infamously claiming that the KKK “designed” the public school system to “hurt African-American children.”
- Bragging that one of his main interests is “rescuing education from teachers’ unions.”
- Pouring at least $750,000 into a campaign to end teacher tenure protections in Missouri, and additionally giving millions into the Show-Me Institute, a conservative think tank that advocates school privatization and sponsors research attacking public schools and teachers.
Meanwhile, Trump and DeVos’ education budget proposal is a full-on attack on America’s public schools that slashes $10.6 billion in federal education funding, including “hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework.”
Statement from American Bridge spokesperson Brad Bainum on DeVos’ Sinquefield meeting:
“The Secretary of Education meeting with a conspiracy theorist ideologue captures the Trump Administration at its core: right-wing GOP donors like DeVos and Sinquefield are able to buy influence and dictate a policy agenda that’s good for the wealthy but sells out the rest of the American people. In this case, millions of kids across the country will pay the price.”
Published: Jun 13, 2017