Posted on 11/23/2016 12:32:37 PM PST by maggief
Jeb Bush on Wednesday praised Betsy DeVos, whom President-elect Donald Trump will nominate to serve as Education secretary.
The former Republican presidential candidate called DeVos an "outstanding pick" for the post. "She has a long and distinguished history championing the right of all parents to choose schools that best ensure their children’s success," Bush said in a statement posted on Facebook.
"Her allegiance is to families, particularly those struggling at the bottom of the economic ladder, not to an outdated public education model that has failed them from one generation to the next."
Bush, who as governor of Florida created the state's first charter school, commended DeVos and said he looked forward to her "bold leadership."
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DeVos originally supported the Common Core educational standards at a state level but opposed them once the became a federal standard, a source familiar with her thinking told The Hill earlier this month.
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Thanks Jeb we’ll take it from here!
See also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3497689/posts
Betsy DeVos: Many of you are asking about Common Core. To clarify, I am not a supporter—period.
https://twitter.com/BetsyDeVos/status/801505785742290945 ^ | November 23, 2016 | Bestsy Davos
Betsy DeVos @BetsyDeVos
Many of you are asking about Common Core. To clarify, I am not a supporter—period. Read my full stance, here: http://betsydevos.com/qa/
https://twitter.com/BetsyDeVos/status/801505785742290945
What’s a ‘Jeb Bush’?
Devos endorsed Romney in 2012. She said that she decided to endorse Rubio in 2016 after Jeb dropped out.
Ping.
Should ask her if she supports fedgov making the standards. By any name. Not just ‘common core’.
It's Spanish for "moron."
Someone that generates an autonomous opposite reaction. Ergo, Trump ought to rethink his choice just to be on the safe side of it being a con, or the broken clock being right by coincidence.
A low energy, bitter mess that was selected by the GOP establishment to be the sacrificial lamb for Hillary's coronation.
Common Core is the biggest piece of garbage ever devised by government in this country.............
Uh oh. What’s wrong with her?
Betsy DeVos? Of Amway?
Good point.
If Jeb is for something it should automatically be suspect.
I was hoping we would never have to hear from Yeb! ever again.
That would make her a Cheap Labor Express Republican.
Not harmful as Secretary of Education, deadly if Trump appoints one for DHS.
“If Jeb is for something it should automatically be suspect.”
Can people here at least pretend we are beyond such retarded stuff like this?
Jeb likes to drink water. I guess we ought to take up cow urine.....because you know water is now ((((SUSPECT)))).
G.W.’s dumber brother (Mr. Please Clap himself) is now against common core, even though he was its champion
He was for it before he was against it.
Why? Hopefully the Education Dept. will be going away.
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