Rounds Statement on Confirmation of
Betsy DeVos to be Secretary of Education
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today issued the following statement on the confirmation of Betsy DeVos to be Secretary of Education:
“I support Betsy DeVos to be Secretary of Education because she understands the need to keep education decisions at the local level: with parents, teachers, school boards and students. Further, I believe she will be successful in implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which was signed into law last Congress and repealed Common Core and other one-size-fits-all approaches, giving local units more flexibility in developing a curriculum that best fits the needs of South Dakota students. The South Dakota Department of Education and our individual school boards are more than capable of making decisions best suited for our students; they will be further empowered to do so under Ms. DeVos’s leadership.”
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Hate to say it Senator, but the Dept. of Education is way bigger than common core. This is the agency that controls Navient, Sallie Mae, and all of the other student loan contractors that love to mess with us voters who are still paying back their student loans. Navient has a contract with the Department until 2018 to collect on federal education loans, but also got slammed by the Department and the DOJ for illegal collection practices. Just from Ms. Devos’ answers I can appreciate that she doesn’t understand a thing about student loans. I am deeply concerned that you didn’t put forward a competent person to run this gigantic, and eminently important, federal agency.
Student loans are not complicated. First you borrow the money, and then you pay it back.
eminently important???? it needs to be shut down….
Betsy DeVos substantial campaign contributions to Mike Rounds and John Thune have paid off.
Even though I attended and graduated from a Catholic school system I see the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as a further de-emphasis on public education. The class divide of opportunities will widen.
Yes, the further de-emphasis on public education is much needed in this country. For too long the liberals have indoctrinated the poor, urban, minority students and have kept them in a never ending cycle of poverty, generation after generation. Complain all you want about the lack of experience DeVos has, but do not complain about her philosophy of fixing our broken public education system.
Why don’t you share some of the facts that support your conclusion?
One of the first things that Obama did when he took office was get rid of the program that offered vouchers to kids in DC to attend a better school, while of course he made sure that his daughters attended a private school. IMO vouchers will not widen the class divide of opportunity, it will lessen the divide by allowing more kids a chance to attend a good school instead of a failing inner city public school. We are lucky in SD because most of our public schools do provide a quality education, but that is not the case in many other places in the nation, and those students deserve a chance at a good education too.
Apparently she can read the future since she made these contributions to rounds and thune before Trump was even nominated. These claims don’t even make sense.
$46,000 and $15,000, respectively. That’s a lotta fish food for the swamp our Tweeter in Chief said he was gonna drain. What a sham this guy is.
This chick is bad, no matter who you are.
I thought Sen. Rounds was going to get rid of the Department of Education.