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Trump's Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says the federal department she once led should be ABOLISHED at conference where teachers unions are branded 'K-12 cartels' for their obstruction during pandemic
By KATELYN CARALLE, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Betsy DeVos, the one time head of Donald Trump's Education Department, said at an education summit in Tampa, Florida on Saturday that the federal department should be abolished.
'I personally think the Department of Education should not exist,' DeVos told the crowd at the Moms for Liberty summit, according to the Florida Phoenix, during her keynote address.
The denunciation of the department she once led came at a three-summit meant to train their members from 30 states to create conservative majorities on their local school boards.
The woman who interviewed DeVos over the weekend, the group's co-founder Tiffany Justice, called teacher unions a 'K-12 cartel' during the summit, but insisted: 'We love teachers here at Moms for Liberty.'
Moms for Liberty is calling their efforts the parental-rights movement, which emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic due to widespread opposition to making and vaccine mandates in public schools.
DeVos' call to get rid of the DOE is not a novel idea.
Republican Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky introduced a bill in 2021 that would abolish the Education Department.
'Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., should not be in charge of our children's intellectual and moral development,' Massie said at the time of unveiling the bill.
Co-signers included many pro-Trump conservative members of the House, including Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Matt Gaetz of Florida.
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By KATELYN CARALLE, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Betsy DeVos, the one time head of Donald Trump's Education Department, said at an education summit in Tampa, Florida on Saturday that the federal department should be abolished.
'I personally think the Department of Education should not exist,' DeVos told the crowd at the Moms for Liberty summit, according to the Florida Phoenix, during her keynote address.
The denunciation of the department she once led came at a three-summit meant to train their members from 30 states to create conservative majorities on their local school boards.
The woman who interviewed DeVos over the weekend, the group's co-founder Tiffany Justice, called teacher unions a 'K-12 cartel' during the summit, but insisted: 'We love teachers here at Moms for Liberty.'
Moms for Liberty is calling their efforts the parental-rights movement, which emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic due to widespread opposition to making and vaccine mandates in public schools.
DeVos' call to get rid of the DOE is not a novel idea.
Republican Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky introduced a bill in 2021 that would abolish the Education Department.
'Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., should not be in charge of our children's intellectual and moral development,' Massie said at the time of unveiling the bill.
Co-signers included many pro-Trump conservative members of the House, including Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Matt Gaetz of Florida.
Continue reading...