Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, left, joined by Education Department Budget Service Director Erica Navarro, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, earlier than the House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee hearing on the Education Department’s fiscal 2018 budget.
The hiring of many of the individuals within the announcement had previously been discussed publicly, nevertheless it was the first official announcement from DeVos about who would fill key employees positions. Like different federal agencies within the Trump administration, the Department of Education has gone nearly three months without naming appointees to plenty of political positions.
We selected two White boys, and two Black boys to go to Ivy League Colleges, quite a stretch for second graders. The two White boys ended up attending better high colleges, (they passed tests to get in) and ended up at Cornell and Pennsylvania. The two Black boys went to Columbia and Yale. The four are physician’s and lawyers. All 4 had one factor in frequent, mother and father that put them on the right path.
Ms. Black’s resignation, which comes on the heels of the departures of a number of different high-rating training officers, was almost as shocking as her appointment. When Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg plucked her from Hearst Magazines to run the nation’s largest public school system, folks in New York and throughout the country — including among the mayor’s closest aides — had been surprised.
As secretary, DeVos will work with President Trump to advance equal opportunities for high quality education for all college students. DeVos firmly believes that neither the ZIP code through which a toddler lives nor a baby’s family earnings must be the principal determinant of his or her opportunity to obtain a world-class education. As secretary, she’s going to advocate for returning management of training to states and localities, giving mother and father greater power to decide on the academic settings which can be best for their youngsters and ensuring that higher training puts college students on the path to profitable careers.