Where is Betsy DeVos? The Secretary of Education is under fire for challenging schools to reopen without giving them the support they need to protect students, teachers, administrators and staff. Taxpayers paid security details for the watch, ”reports NBC News. That security cost taxpayers $ 25 million last year.
DeVos “insists that it is not their job to help the places determine how to do it [re-open] for sure.”
The Education Secretary’s public schedule “has been mostly blank for the past few weeks, including no events in her public schedule for this week,” reveals NBC’s Heidi Przybyla.
Still, DeVos “held events not listed on their public calendar, including several sponsored by the conservative Federalist Society. She has also attended a few private school and voucher advocacy-related events, including a July 23 round table at a private Christian school in Ohio and two events in the Carolinas with Vice President Mike Pence. “
Przybyla says DeVos “doesn’t go to the public schools she plans to reopen”.
. @ HeidiNBC: “Even though DeVos follows Trump to demand the schools reopen, Mika, she has a public schedule that has been empty for weeks … She doesn’t go to the public schools she plans to reopen.” pic.twitter.com/KFZxkpidXa
– DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) August 11, 2020
The Secretary of Education also declined to “appear at a hearing of the House Coronavirus Subcommittee on the Safe Reopening of K-12 Schools” to explain why she’s pressuring schools despite the risks, South Carolina’s James Clyburn , No. 3, fully re-open House Democrat, said Thursday. “
Here’s what some say:
Going AWOL during a national school crisis means another guaranteed grade “F” for Secretary DeVos https://t.co/rqhaE4ZmqE
– Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (ongCongressmanRaja) August 11, 2020
Betsy DeVos has spent $ 25 million in tax dollars on her own safety but wants to send kids back to school without spending anything to keep them safe?
Yes. Sounds like a Trump representative to me.
– Annie Gabston-Howell- (@AnnieGabstonH) August 11, 2020
Sec. DeVos declined to attend a coronavirus subcommittee hearing on the safe reopening of K-12 schools, says Rep. Clyburn.
“I offered to stick to their schedule. But she refused to appear. “(6/6)
– MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 11, 2020
While educators and families consider putting their lives at risk for their students’ education, DeVos relaxes in a taxpayer-funded cocoon of protection in her mansion. https://t.co/QzQyORF1rD
– NEA (@NEAToday), August 11, 2020
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