DeVos' Michigan schools experiment gets poor grades - POLITICO
If one of the top colleges in the nation needed a new football coach, you would guess that they would go out and find somebody who has been very successful in coaching football. And success is generally determined by their record. Not so in politics where it appears ideology trumps a solid record.
Donald Trump has selected Betsy Devos of Michigan as the new Department of Education chief. The only problem is Devos has a losing record in education in her home state of Michigan and her promises have failed to materialize despite a very cooperative state government which has given her side just about everything they desired in education and law to facilitate it.
In short, she talks the conservative talk but fails to walk the educational improvements walk.
When this was first announced, I was well aware of Devos from my three years in Lansing working as chief of staff or a Michigan legislator. Devon is very well known as the point person for many charter school issues. But in her years she has gone from promising
better schools with better results for kids to merely offering
choice for parents as the Holy Grail of her movement.
This is not just about a bad pick in putting the fox inside of the hen house and resulting in dead chickens. It is about putting a person in charge of something with a very poor record of accomplishment and who is simply not fit for that task based on her previous record.
I did not expect Trump to nominate the President of the AFT to run the Department of Education. But to nominate someone who has no record of accomplishment and failed to deliver on her educational promises - that is inexcusable... and conservatives should agree if they care about record and ability to deliver what you promise.