Betsy DeVos refuses to visit public schools on NYC trip - blasts bans on taxpayer funds for
religious education.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/betsy-devos-refuses-visit-public-schools-nyc-trip-blasts-bans-taxpayer-funds-religious-education/
Betsy DeVos has concluded her two-day visit to New York City, during which she refused to visit a single public school, although she did attend two private, Orthodox Jewish religious schools. The Education Secretary also delivered remarks at a Catholic organization’s breakfast meeting, and blasted bans on the use of taxpayer funds for private religious schools.
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DeVos used her time in the Big Apple to further her private charter school advocacy, and made no attempt to hide her extremist views, which have repeatedly been characterized as unconstitutional. “I know very well there are powerful interests that want to deprive families their God-given freedom,” DeVos told Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, during a breakfast meeting hosted by the Alfred E. Smith Foundation.
“I know that those sycophants of ‘the system’ have kept legislators here from enacting a common-sense program that would open options to thousands of kids in need,” she said, referring to bans on the use of taxpayer funds for private, religious schools.'
DeVos, using the language of civil rights movements, called the bans on taxpayers funding private religious schools “bigoted,” and said those laws “should be assigned to the ash heap of history and this ‘last acceptable prejudice’ should be stamped out once and for all.”
The Education Secretary’s “actions have repeatedly demonstrated her disdain for public education,” American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten told Shareblue in a statement. “DeVos is about defunding and destabilizing public schools,” Weingarten said, “not strengthening and building the public schools she’s charged with overseeing and improving.”
Can you believe she has the nerve to suggest that public funding of religious schools is "bigoted" and being against it is "the last acceptable prejudice"? I despise her more than I can say and I want to see her go down in flames. She is evil to the core. 
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