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turbinetree

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Sat May 23, 2020, 08:14 PM May 2020

Betsy DeVos openly admits she's using the pandemic to push funding for faith-based schools

Published 2 hours ago on May 23, 2020
By Igor Derysh, Salon




Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos admitted that she was trying to use the ongoing coronavirus crisis to push through her private school choice agenda during a Tuesday radio interview.

DeVos made the comments during an interview with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, on his Sirius XM show. The interview was first flagged by the nonprofit education news outlet Chalkbeat.

Dolan asked the secretary whether she was trying to “utilize this particular crisis to ensure that justice is finally done to our kids and the parents who choose to send them to faith-based schools.”

Am I correct in understanding what your agenda is?” he asked.

“Yes, absolutely,” DeVos replied. “For more than three decades, that has been something that I’ve been passionate about. This whole pandemic has brought into clear focus that everyone has been impacted, and we shouldn’t be thinking about students that are in public schools versus private schools.”

Igor Derysh is a staff writer at Salon. His work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald and Baltimore Sun.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/betsy-devos-openly-admits-shes-using-the-pandemic-to-push-funding-for-faith-based-schools/

And I fully believe that the church should be taxed................
And that Devos should be locked up.....................

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Betsy DeVos openly admits she's using the pandemic to push funding for faith-based schools (Original Post) turbinetree May 2020 OP
Tell her we all said to fuck off and die from it too if she wouldn't mind? Brainfodder May 2020 #1

Brainfodder

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1. Tell her we all said to fuck off and die from it too if she wouldn't mind?
Sat May 23, 2020, 08:18 PM
May 2020

The tolerance for assholes needs to end!

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