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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiden: Four years of Betsy DeVos is more than enough. We need a Secretary of Education who is actual
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Four years of Betsy DeVos is more than enough. We need a Secretary of Education who is actually a public school educator.
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Biden: Four years of Betsy DeVos is more than enough. We need a Secretary of Education who is actual (Original Post)
soothsayer
Jul 2020
OP
I agree with Joe 100%. We need a person who started out teaching in the classroom, then
Blue_true
Jul 2020
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tavernier
(12,364 posts)1. Proud to be the first to rec this
onetexan
(13,019 posts)2. When you're POTUS, appoint Dr. Jill Biden, Joe :)
She'd make an excellent Ed. Sec., FLOTUS too!
tulipsandroses
(5,120 posts)7. She would. But he shouldn't
UFT president Randi Weingarten would be great if she wants it
Geoffrey Canada would be great too -
CurtEastPoint
(18,612 posts)3. Kinda like brain surgeon running HUD. WTF. ON BOTH COUNTS!
Cha
(296,740 posts)6. Yeah, some heartless gaslighting asshole who happened
to be a genius at brain surgery but nothing else afaik.
Cha
(296,740 posts)4. TY Biden! And, not some gaslit Orwell pick.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)5. I agree with Joe 100%. We need a person who started out teaching in the classroom, then
at some point went into school administration and then school district administration, and who developed valuable insight on how to produce a solid education system along the way.
Bettie
(16,058 posts)8. My first thought was we need one who is actually
capable of exhibiting humanity.
DAMANgoldberg
(1,278 posts)9. Here is an option...
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)10. Arne Duncan shouldn't have had the job either.