As DeVos Faces Congress, Officials Say She Hid Plans to Overhaul Department

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I miss so much news lately. Trumps scandals blow everything else off the news.




As DeVos Faces Congress, Officials Say She Hid Plans to Overhaul Department


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/us/politics/education-secretary-devos-reorganization-plan-union.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-3&action=click&contentCollection=Politics&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article


Erica L. Green


March 20, 2018




Education Secretary Betsy DeVos tried to withhold details of a sweeping reorganization plan for her department from Congress, staff members say. Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will go before a House panel on Tuesday to defend her agency’s budget, including a sweeping overhaul of the Education Department that has strained relations within her agency and with Congress — and defies the White House’s budget office.

In recent weeks, Ms. DeVos has clashed fiercely with department staff members over the plan, which they say she tried to withhold from Congress as she imposed on the department what they call an illegal collective bargaining agreement.

Ms. DeVos will testify before the House Appropriations Committee, whose staff was told a week ago that her office had withheld vital information from it regarding the department’s budget for the fiscal year that begins in October. The budget request calls for a 5 percent spending cut, eliminates dozens of programs and pitches a $1 billion school choice proposal. It also includes a shake-up of several divisions that is already underway.

A career department official unveiled details of Ms. DeVos’s “Education Reform Plan” in an email to staff members on the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. The email, obtained by The Times, said information driving budget decisions was omitted from budget justifications submitted to Congress.............................................

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Goal is end all public education and give that money to her companies.

Brainwash children and become one of the richest humans alive at the same time.

But, you know, emails.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. "But her e-mails"

will be on the tombstone marker for our country someday.

[Freethinker65]

3. Hidden in plain sight. WTF did you think this anti-public school in her blood socialite was gonna do

?

The goal is to decimate public schools. No critical thinking, ever, for the masses. A purge of Academics.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. "LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP!!!!"

Oh, so THAT'S who they were talking about...........

Extra detention for her!

[smirkymonkey]

5. I really want to see her go down.

I want her to get sacked in the most humiliating way possible.

[CelticWinter]

6. sell tickets so we

can watch I wanna see this, she is a useless POS.
Celtic