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Vos to serve as education secretary. De. Vos is the former chair of the Michigan Republican Party and a longtime backer of charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools. In response, American Federations of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said, quote, . If confirmed by the Senate, De. Vos could become the most anti- public school education secretary since the Office of Education was established in 1. The New York Times notes De.

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Vos helped turn her home state of Michigan into one of the nation’s biggest school choice laboratories, and the result was disastrous. AMYGOODMAN: The De. Voses have bankrolled their school deregulation and privatization efforts through a dark money group called American Federation for Children, a major contributor to the right- wing corporate education movement. They’ve also pushed controversial anti- union state legislation known as .

Since 1. 97. 0, the De. Voses have invested at least $2. De. Vos’s father- in- law is the co- founder of Amway, and her brother is Erik Prince, founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater. For more, we’re joined by three guests. In Detroit, Michigan, we’re joined by Tawanna Simpson, elected member of the Detroit Board of Education. In Madison, Wisconsin, Lisa Graves is with us, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy.

Bush, historian of education, best- selling author of over 2. Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools, as well as The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education. We welcome you all to Democracy Now! Lisa Graves, let’s begin with you. What do you think are the five most important things to understand about President Trump—President- elect Trump’s education pick?

LISAGRAVES: Well, I think he chose perhaps the most unqualified person he could for this position. She is an enemy of public schools. She’s someone who has used her inherited wealth and the wealth that she’s married into to try to distort and reshape our laws to advance her personal views, which are that we should basically redefine public education to mean our tax dollars should be going to fund private schools, religious schools, that advance her worldview. And so, she’s someone who didn’t even send her kids to public schools. She’s someone who, basically, has devoted her wealth to attacking our campaign finance laws, to attacking labor laws and to attacking the very idea of having universal public education for all students that’s truly public. So, she’s someone who is manifestly unqualified. I think it’s going to be an enormous battle nationally and in our states to protect our public schools, which is really one of the greatest innovations of America in the past century, to have universal public education, truly public schools for all, and to really invest in those schools.

Putting her in charge of the Department of Education really is an insult to all of the many teachers and educators and principals and so many Americans who have come through our public schools, who have had a chance in this economy to make it in their lives in part due to this commitment of America to public schools, which we need to invest in more versus the sort of alternatives that Betsy De. Vos has pushed, including charter schools that have sucked billions out of our public education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud. NERMEENSHAIKH: Diane Ravitch, De. Vos supports vouchers and charter schools. Could you explain what vouchers are and what the key differences are between public schools and charter schools, because some say that charter schools enable more choice? DIANERAVITCH: Well, they do enable choice, but they’re not necessarily better schools.

And what they basically are, are privately managed, privately run and, in many cases, for- profit schools. Michigan has many charter schools, and 8. So, these are privately owned schools. It’s the first step towards privatization. And they’re schools that are open to students, which students can choose, but very often they’re worse than the public school that they’re leaving.

A voucher, on the other hand, is a plan to give the money directly to the family, although they don’t—they never see the money. It’s worth $5,0. 00, $6,0.

You can go anywhere with it. You can go to a commercial school. You can go to a charter. You can go to a religious school. And most of them are not going to—it’s not enough money to go to an elite school or to the best school.

It’s usually very—like in the South, it’s backwoods fundamentalist church schools that have uncertified staff. AMYGOODMAN: What is your assessment of Betsy De.

Vos’s educational background? DIANERAVITCH: Well, I agree with Lisa. She’s the most unqualified person ever to be nominated for this.

But more than that, she represents the religious right. She is unusual in that she is a representative of the religious right with billions of dollars behind her. So, her American Federation for Children has used its strategic giving to promote vouchers all over the country. And there are many states that—about half the states now have some form of voucher. But the important thing to know about vouchers and charters is that neither of them has ever been approved by popular vote. The De. Vos family—Betsy De.

Vos, in particular—launched a referendum in Michigan in the year 2. It was rejected by 6.

There have now been six or eight state elections since 1. They have been turned down by 7. Overwhelmingly, in every state where they’ve been tried, where the vouchers have been put forward, they’ve been turned down. In this last election, this year, two states, Massachusetts and Georgia, overwhelming majorities opposed charter school expansion.

So there has never been popular expression saying we want to get rid of our public schools and replace them with privately managed charters or vouchers that you can take to any place. AMYGOODMAN: So, let’s go right to Michigan, where Betsy De. Vos lives. Tawanna Simpson, you are an elected member of the Detroit Board of Education. Can you share your response when you heard that President- elect Donald Trump had tapped Michigander Betsy De. Vos to be the secretary of education? TAWANNASIMPSON: I was very disappointed and disheartened, because we have worked so—we have worked so hard in the grassroots here in Detroit to save our traditional public schools. Under emergency management, we worked to ensure that the legislator accepted the debt that they created in our traditional public schools.

We worked very hard and advocated and lobbied for them to appropriate money to our traditional public schools. And we stopped the legislator from chartering our entire school district. So, I found it very disheartening just to find out, after all the hard work that we put into it, that, you know, from the federal level, it can be changed. AMYGOODMAN: Let’s turn to Betsy De.

Vos in her own words speaking on Fox Business Network. BETSYDEVOS: The reality is that most charter schools in this country take the kids that are doing poorly in the schools that they were assigned to, and all the parents want is greater choice for their children. The more choices we have, the more competition we have, but also the better product or the better learning opportunity for the kids. AMYGOODMAN: So that’s Betsy De. Vos speaking on Fox. Tawanna Simpson, what’s your experience of working with Betsy De. Vos? What effect has she had on the Detroit schools, where you’re a board member?

TAWANNASIMPSON: Well, you know, she—her and her family provide lots of money to the legislator to make sure that—to ensure laws go the way they wanted, to have mandated, unaccountable and corrupt charter schools in our city. But listen to her statement. It’s actually the opposite. Charter schools come into our traditional public schools and cherry- pick the best students. They don’t take the students who need the most help, because it makes no economic sense for charter schools, because it would cost more money to educate students that have other needs—I mean, additional educational needs. AMYGOODMAN: This is another clip of Betsy De.

Vos speaking at the American Federation for Children summit earlier this year. BETSYDEVOS: All told, together we’ve helped more than a million kids in private school choice programs. And we’re just getting started. Since we last met, Nevada, Montana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Maryland and South Dakota have all passed private school choice programs. AMYGOODMAN: So that’s Betsy De. Vos. Diane Ravitch, I mean, it all comes down to what’s best for children. What are the records on these different schools?

And what will it mean who is secretary of education? How will she compare, for example, to Arne Duncan? He was also a supporter of charter schools. DIANERAVITCH: Well, I have to say, somewhat echoing a little bit of Cornel West, that the Obama administration, in education, laid the groundwork for Trump and Betsy De. Vos, because they were big supporters of charter schools. And I’ve been arguing for years that charter schools are the first step towards full privatization.

AMYGOODMAN: You didn’t always think that. You worked—DIANERAVITCH: I didn’t always think that. Oh, I know. AMYGOODMAN: —for George H. W. You were a big proponent of charter schools.

DIANERAVITCH: Right. Well, the charter school idea started in 1. It was just an idea then. Then, in 1. 99. 2, the first charter—1. Wisconsin, the first one. And then they began slowly to spread. And at the time, I thought, .

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