Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Big-Donor Education Secretary. After choosing for his cabinet a series of political outsiders who are loyal to him personally, Donald Trump has broken with this pattern to name Betsy DeVos his Secretary of Education.
DeVos, whose father-in-law is a co-founder of Amway, the multilevel marketing empire, comes from the very heart of the small circle of conservative billionaires who have long funded the Republican Party. Trump’s choice of DeVos delivers on his campaign promise to increase the role of charter schools, which she has long championed. But it also flies in the face of his fiery anti-establishment campaign rhetoric. Steve Bannon, who was named Trump’s senior counsellor and chief strategist, has mocked what he called “the donor class,” arguing that it and the politicians it bankrolls have little understanding of the needs of working-class and middle-class voters.
While the DeVoses are less well known than the Kochs, they have played a similar role in bankrolling the rightward march of the Republican Party. Amway - Wikipedia. Amway (short for The "American Way", renamed to Quixtar in 2008)[3] is an American company that uses a multi-level marketing model to sell a variety of products, primarily in the health, beauty, and home care markets.[4][5][6] Amway was founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos.
Based in Ada, Michigan, the company and family of companies under Alticor reported sales of $9.5 billion for 2015, the second consecutive year of decline for the company.[1] Its product lines include home care products, personal care products, jewelry, electronics, Nutrilite dietary supplements, water purifiers, air purifiers, insurance, and cosmetics. It has been, several times, subject of investigation in various countries for alleged pyramid scheme related practices by institutions such as the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), but such accusations have later been disregarded.[7][8][9][10][11] History[edit] Founding[edit] Amway Vietnam (Hồ Chí Minh City) International expansion[edit] Betsy DeVos - Wikipedia. Elisabeth "Betsy" DeVos (née Prince; born January 8, 1958) is an American politician, businesswoman, philanthropist, and education activist from the U.S. state of Michigan.
She has taken a leading role in a number of social, cultural, and political campaigns and organizations; sat on many boards; and served for several years as chairman of the Michigan Republican Party. She is chairman of the Windquest Group, the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation, and the American Federation for Children, and is a member of the board of the DeVos Institute for Arts Management at the Kennedy Center.[1] On November 23, 2016 it was announced that DeVos would be nominated to serve as Secretary of Education in the coming administration of President-elect Donald Trump.[2] Early life and education DeVos was educated at the Holland Christian High School.
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Any external relationship can trigger a conflict of interest. [a] That someone has a conflict of interest is a description of a situation, not a judgment about that person's opinions or integrity. [b] COI editing is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia. Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet. The Family That Gives Together. Interesting paragraph from @JaneMayerNYer's "Dark Money" re Betsy DeVos. Remember when the teachers unions leaders backed lifelong charter advocate Hillary over union ally Bernie, only to lose & get Betsy DeVos? Betsy DeVos, a huge advocate for school privatization, admitting her family buys influence with campaign donations.
Finally a billionaire who never worked a day in her life & never sent kids to public schools lands Education Secretary job! #BetsyDeVos. Billionaire Betsy DeVos used her $ to oppose regulation of low- performing for-profit charter schls in Michigan. More on DeVos family & their radical Right wing causes; Betsy's brother is a mercenary & former head of Blackwater. Nog een verkiezingsbelofte gebroken:Trump schaft onderwijsministerie niet af, maar benoemt er bewindsvrouw. Als De Vos de passie preekt, boer pas op je kippen. Sen. Murray Statement on Nomination of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Ed @SOPublicSchools @NAACP_NEAC @SenStan #mapoli.
Betsy DeVos, Trump’s education pick, has steered money from public schools. How Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos could gut public education. Mike Segar/Reuters School-choice philanthropist Betsy DeVos is set to become Donald Trump’s secretary of education.
The school choice movement that Trump has embraced is bipartisan; centrist Democrats and Republicans both tend to support public charter schools. But DeVos, a former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, represents the most conservative corner of the movement. She and her husband have funded a series of efforts to turn public school funding into vouchers for students to attend private schools. They have also fought to prevent charter schools, including for-profit charter schools, from being more tightly regulated. The DeVos appointment signals that Trump is serious about the $20 billion school voucher plan he rolled out on the campaign trail.
On the plus side, families like having choices. 5 Things to Know About Betsy DeVos, Trump's Pick for Education Secretary. The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions. (Washington, D.C.) — Today, Sen.
Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on the nomination of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education. “Few things are more important in our work to expand opportunities and grow our economy than making sure that every student has access to a high-quality education no matter where they live, how they learn, or how much money their parents make. We’ve taken some strong steps in the right direction in recent years to support students and make sure teachers and schools have the tools they need to succeed, but we have a whole lot more work to do, and our children absolutely cannot afford for us to move backwards. “I look forward to meeting with Betsy DeVos and talking to her about her vision for the Department of Education and whether and how it includes expanding access to educational opportunities for students across the country.
“I am also very interested in Ms. Meet the New Kochs: The DeVos Clan's Plan to Defund the Left. Illustration by Steve Brodner IN THE PREDAWN TWILIGHT of December 4, 2012, Randy Richardville, the Republican majority leader of the Michigan Senate, called an old friend to deliver some grim news.
Richardville's two-hour commute to the state capitol in Lansing gave him plenty of time to check in with friends, staff, and colleagues, who were accustomed to his early morning calls. None more so than Mike Jackson. Jackson and Richardville had grown up in the auto town of Monroe, 40 miles south of Detroit. Betsy DeVos and the Wrong Way to Fix Schools. Photo NEW ORLEANS — President-elect Donald J.
Trump’s selection of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education has sent shock waves through the educational establishment. Understandably so, since this is a clear sign that Mr. Trump intends a major national push to direct public funds to private and charter schools. But this is more than just a political or financial loss for traditional public schools. The choice of Ms. When Public Goes Private, as Trump Wants: What Happens? Education and the Commercial Mindset by Samuel E.
Abrams Harvard University Press, 417 pp., $39.95 School Choice: The End of Public Education? By Mercedes K. Teachers College Press, 204 pp., $35.95 (paper) Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Education Pick, Has Steered Money From Public Schools. Photo It is hard to find anyone more passionate about the idea of steering public dollars away from traditional public schools than Betsy DeVos, ’s pick as the cabinet secretary overseeing the nation’s education system.
Group Funded By Trump's Education Secretary Pick: 'Bring Back Child Labor' DeVos Fought to Keep Michigan Charters Unregulated and Unaccountable. The DeVos family has had an outsize influence in Michigan, by its charitable contributions and its political contributions. After the Detroit Free Press published a scathing series of articles about the corrupt, unaccountable practices in charter schools in the state, the legislature was shamed into drafting a law that would provide oversight of the charter sector. The DeVos family gave out $1.5 million in campaign contributions to make sure that charter schools continued to be unregulated and unaccountable. 80% of the charter schools in Michigan operate for profit. No other state has so many for-profit operators. Detroit is overrun with charters. Michigan doesn’t have vouchers, because the people of Michigan voted them down in 2000 when the DeVos family proposed an initiative to permit public funds to flow to nonpublic schools.
Milwaukee has had both charters and vouchers for more than 20 years, and it is among the lowest scoring urban districts in the nation, but ahead of Detroit. DeVos heads into confirmation with a megadonor's advantage. Billionaire Betsy DeVos has been unabashed about using her wealth to advance her own agenda. “We expect a return on our investment,” she once wrote about her family’s massive political contributions. After giving millions of dollars to politicians over the last two decades, she now heads into her Senate confirmation hearing for Education secretary with a clear advantage: DeVos and her husband, Dick, have donated to the campaigns of 17 senators who will consider her nomination — four of whom sit on the Senate education committee that oversees the process. Story Continued Below Big donors often get plum government jobs. But DeVos’ contributions to the lawmakers who will decide her fate stand out in a year in which Trump has pledged to “drain the swamp” of Washington politics.
Education committee members Sens. Over the past two and half decades, the couple donated more than $7.7 million to Republican candidates and parties across the country, the analysis found. Sen. What’s In and What’s Out for Colleges as Trump Takes Office - The Chronicle of Higher Education. Getty Images The incoming Trump administration will reshape higher-education policy.
Betsy DeVos, President-elect Trump's nominee for education secretary, spoke at a rally last month in Michigan. If you’re a college leader who feels micromanaged by federal regulations, a university trustee who thinks that the U.S. Department of Education has been overly intrusive in overseeing colleges’ handling of sexual-assault and discrimination cases, or a would-be education provider that is not a traditionally accredited college, you may well like some of the approaches of the coming administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress. At least that’s how some of the outlines of the new political landscape for higher education appear to be taking shape, based on recent Chronicle interviews with more than two dozen college leaders, policy advocates, and current state and federal government officials. Mr. Mr. From Mr. DeVos hearing delayed. The confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump’s Education secretary pick, has been pushed back by almost a week, leadership of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions said on Monday night.
Senate HELP's hearing for DeVos will now take place on Jan. 17 at 5 p.m., not on Wednesday, Jan. 11, as originally planned, Sen. Trumps onderwijsminister @BetsyDeVos biedt nog steeds geen transparantie over haar miljarden+belangen, op valreep kritische Senaat hearing. Protect Public Education - Stop Betsy DeVos! The Coming Crusade Against Public Education. Betsy DeVos, whose nomination for secretary of education will be reviewed by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Tuesday, has never taught in a classroom.
She’s never worked in a school administration, nor in a state education system, nor has she studied pedagogy. She’s never been to public school, and neither have her children. She has no record on higher education, except as an investor in the student-loan industry, which the Department of Education oversees. As Massachusetts Senator (and HELP Committee member) Elizabeth Warren wrote recently, there is “no precedent” for an education secretary with DeVos’s lack of experience in public education. What DeVos lacks in expertise she’s made up in money. But DeVos is not simply a free-market ideologue: She has also argued for education reform as a way to advance a Christian worldview. Who is Betsy DeVos? DeVos review identifies 102 financial interests with potential conflicts. Betsy DeVos has agreed to sever ties to several companies that provide services to schools and colleges, as well as a debt collection agency that collects student loans on behalf of the Education Department, according to government ethics paperwork released Friday.
DeVos review identifies 102 financial interests with potential conflicts. WP: Blackwater founder[Erik Prinsis brother of Betsy de Vos] held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel. The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump, according to U.S., European and Arab officials. The meeting took place around Jan. 11 — nine days before Trump’s inauguration — in the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean, officials said.
Though the full agenda remains unclear, the UAE agreed to broker the meeting in part to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, a Trump administration objective that would be likely to require major concessions to Moscow on U.S. sanctions. CNN - Who is Erik Prince. Prince never officially worked for the Trump campaign, transition or administration. But he was a prominent Trump supporter during the campaign, spent time around senior transition officials and has continued informally advising the Trump White House on some major foreign policy decisions.
CNN reported that Prince met with Trump and Gen. Michael Flynn during the campaign. Motherjones - Mueller Reportedly Has Evidence Blackwater Founder [ Erik Prins ] Tried to Set Up a Trump-Putin Back Channel.