Betsy DeVos Quotes
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When it comes to education, no solution, not even ones we like, should be dictated or run from Washington, D.C.
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We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.
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President-elect Trump and I know it won't be Washington, D.C., that unlocks our nation's potential, nor a bigger bureaucracy, tougher mandates, or a federal agency. The answer is local control and listening to parents, students, and teachers.
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Social justice and economics are both issues to me.
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If you ask any of my kids today what their most important experience was in their education, they would say it was the travel and the ability to see and be in other cultures.
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Teachers deserve more respect than many give them, and more opportunities than the system affords them today.
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Homeschooling represents another perfectly valid educational option.
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I expect there will be more private schools.
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My faith motivates me to really try to work on behalf of and advocate for those who are least able to advocate for themselves.
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We can focus on differences that divide us, or we can choose to listen and learn from each other's experiences.
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I do support high standards, strong accountability, and local control.
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All schools that receive public funding should be accountable, yes.
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The bigger goal of giving all parents more choices is one that will have to be discussed and undoubtedly roundly debated, but we are going to have to continue to build the case. The momentum is there on the state level in many states. That's where the energy needs to be harnessed in a new way.
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At what point do we accept the fact that throwing money at the problem isn't the solution?
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I expect there will be more virtual schools.
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It would be fine with me to have myself worked out of a job, but I'm not sure that - I'm not sure that there will be a champion movement in Congress to do that.
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That's where my heart has been for three decades is to really empower and allow all families the same kind of opportunities I've had for my kids.
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You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.
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More and more parents are coming to realize their children are suffering at the hands of a system built to strangle any reform, any innovation, or any change. . . . This realization is becoming more evident as the momentum builds for an education revolution.
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Where conflicts are identified, they will be resolved.
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My family is the largest single contributor of soft money to the national Republican Party.
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I'm proud to stand beside you as a partner and support Special Olympics - an important program that promotes leadership and empowers students to be agents of change.
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If taxpayer money were limitless, we wouldn't need a budget at all.
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When we had segregated schools and when we had a time when, you know, girls weren't allowed to have the same kind of sports teams - I mean, there have been important inflection points for the federal government to get involved in some of the areas around protecting students and ensuring safe environments for them - there is a role to play.