On January 31, the US Senate* will be holding a final hearing on President Trump’s nomination of Betsy DeVos as our Secretary of Education.
We will be hosting a CALL-IN DAY on Jan. 30th, to say NO to her selection, and to say YES to Education For All. (Info Below)
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BACKGROUND:
Betsy DeVos is infamous as a national advocate of the privatization of education. She has spent her career promoting the diversion of public funds for education towards supporting charter schools, for-profit schools, and supplying vouchers that will go to private schools.
She has also come under scrutiny as a shareholder in an investment company that invests in private schools. She has shown more interest in filling her own pockets, while public schools in poor, low-income, multinational neighborhoods are starved and closed.
Join us as we say NO TO BETSY DEVOS. Help us say YES to Education For All: increased funding for education (not war or deportations), free tuition, equal access for undocumented students, the enforcement of affirmative action for Black, Latinx, and Chicanx students.
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CALL THE HEADS OF THE COMMITTEE HOSTING THE HEARING:
1. Lamar Alexander
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions:
(202) 224-4944
2. Patty Murray
Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
(202) 224-2621
If you want to call your local Senator as well, please find them via this link: http://www.help.senate.gov/about/members . Then click on their respective pages, find their ph #, and call, call, call!
SCRIPT:
Say:
“Hi, my name is _____, and I am a student/employee/resident of ________. I say NO to the selection of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. I say NO to any other choices who support reducing public education funds in order to feed private, for-profit institutions. or supply vouchers that would replace public K-12. Instead, I support Education For All, increased funding to public schools, equal access to education, and free tuition. I believe education is a right for all, not a luxury for the rich and the powerful. I will protest DeVos, her policies, and her allies for years to come; on Tuesday, please do not vote for or promote her as a nominee.”