Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren pledges to nominate a public school teacher to head the Department of Education if elected president.
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren made a pledge Monday aimed directly at one of the Trump cabinet's more controversial figures: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
It's a stark contrast to the current head of the department, DeVos, who for decades has supported charter schools and taxpayer-funded vouchers for private and religious schools -- a policy known as"school choice" that critics say drains support from public schools.During the 2018 midterms, she was frequently used as a key symbol of privatizing education in attack ads run by Democrats who touted their support for public schools.
"She and her team are up to their eyeballs in conflicts of interest. Instead of championing our students, they protect for-profit colleges that break the law and cheat them," Warren said. Noting that the Department of Education manages a trillion dollar loan bank, Warren asked whether DeVos had ever run a loan program or taken out student loans herself."So you have no personal experience with college financial aid or management of higher education," Warren concluded at the end of her line of questioning, which was shared widely in Democratic circles and used as a rallying cry to protest DeVos' confirmation.
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