AFT President: Betsy DeVos Will Destroy Public Schools
Government-funded public schools are “what made America great in the first place,” claims American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten in the New York Daily News.
In the wake of Donald Trump’s announcement that he intends to nominate Michigan philanthropist and education activist Betsy DeVos (shown) to be his secretary of education, Weingarten writes to warn Americans that such a move threatens the “collective promise” made by all of us to “take and teach every child seeking an education.”
When exactly that vow was taken by the over 300 million residents of this country is not revealed in Weingarten’s piece. Nor does the AFT president explain how the public school system could have "made America great in the first place" when its establishment in America came after the founding era. But she does claim that the federally funded public school system is the “most democratic” of...