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Betsy DeVos Clueless on Policies She’ll Oversee as Trump Education Secretary

Keith GirardJanuary 18, 2017

Betsy DeVos, the billionaire businesswoman Donald Trump has picked as Education Secretary, proved to be remarkably clueless about federal education policy during a Senate confirmation hearing and flunked a key question about her position on allowing guns in schools. DeVos is best known as the chairwoman of the Windquest Group, a private investment firm. She has never spent a day much less a career teaching in the nation’s public schools and educated her children at private schools....

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Donald Trump ‘Pay for Play’ in Full Swing as Administration Greets New Year

Keith GirardJanuary 2, 2017

Donald Trump, kicked off the New Year in grand style with a “pay-for-play” New Year’s Eve party at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Trump has thrown open government doors to his high rollers and his own businesses on a scale that is as unprecedented as it is audacious. Of course, Trump had vowed to do exactly the opposite during the campaign....

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Trump Bizarro World Takes Shape Through Lies, Intimidation, Vindictiveness

Keith GirardDecember 8, 2016

Donald Trump is already setting a pattern of lies, intimidation and vindictiveness that likely will mark how he’ll operate as chief executive. His administration will be a Bizarro World, where all rules, traditions and protocols no longer apply. In Bizarro World, everything is weirdly inverted or oddly opposite of the real world–an apt metaphor for Trumps’s governing style....

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Trump Rips Lid Off School Voucher Debate With New Education Secretary Nominee

Keith GirardNovember 24, 2016

President-elect Donald Trump has opened a political can of worms with his selection of billionaire businesswoman Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary. It potentially will inject the federal government more deeply than ever in public school systems. DeVos, who now chairs the Windquest Group, a private investment firm, has never spent a day much less a career teaching in the nation’s public schools....

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