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TexasTowelie

(111,977 posts)
Fri Dec 1, 2017, 02:06 AM Dec 2017

Betsy DeVos warns teachers unions: 'I'm not going anywhere. In fact I'm just getting started.'

During a speech in Nashville on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos called for education reform groups to continue the fight for school choice and said rumors of her departure are false.

Her lunchtime speech at the ExcelinEd conference included a heavy focus on the benefits of school choice for students and national tax reform efforts.

She also issued a warning to teachers unions and “defenders of the status quo” that she is just getting settled into her post as President Donald Trump’s education secretary.

“Allow me to borrow a line from the great American author Mark Twain, ‘The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.’ "

“I’m not going anywhere. In fact I’m just getting started.”

Read more: http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2017/11/30/betsy-devos-set-address-jeb-bush-education-summit-nashville-protests-planned/853128001/

Cross-posted in the Education Group.

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Betsy DeVos warns teachers unions: 'I'm not going anywhere. In fact I'm just getting started.' (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2017 OP
Response: Hey, Betty, So are We! Alice11111 Dec 2017 #1
i want to see her bdtrppr6 Dec 2017 #2
 

bdtrppr6

(796 posts)
2. i want to see her
Fri Dec 1, 2017, 04:00 AM
Dec 2017

literally nailed to a wall covered with construction paper cutouts of amway logos. definition of "deplorable".

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