Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers union, on Monday excoriated President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of education, calling Betsy DeVos “the most anti-public education nominee in the history of the department.”
“Betsy DeVos lacks the qualifications and experience to serve as secretary of education. Her drive to privatize education is demonstrably destructive to public schools and to the educational success of all of our children,” Weingarten said in a speech at the National Press Club in which she laid out priorities for public education.
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