Our public education system was just sold to the highest bidder, and low-income communities of color are at risk of losing the most. DeVos’s agenda to redirect public funding for school vouchers, virtual charter schools, for-profit charter schools, unaccredited private schools, and schools that regularly discriminate against children is a direct attack on one of our country’s last universally-acknowledged public goods, education. We will continue to reject DeVos’s attempts to weaken the rights of our children and parents, and we will fiercely defend our public education.
Kesi Foster of the Urban Youth Collaborative and Natasha Capers of New York City Coalition for Educational Justice | Chalkbeat “New Yorkers celebrate, mourn and buckle down as Betsy DeVos is confirmed as U.S. education secretary”