Betsy DeVos
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican politician and philanthropist (born 1958)
Elisabeth Dee DeVos is an American politician, philanthropist, and former government official who served as the 11th United States secretary of education from 2017 to 2021.
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DeVos (far left) is present as First Lady Laura Bush (far right) makes a purchase at Franklin Cider Mill. Bush was in Michigan to support DeVos's husband in his gubernatorial campaign.
DeVos in 2005
DeVos at 2017 National Blue Ribbon Schools Awards Ceremony
DeVos in Alaska in August 2019
DeVos at CPAC in 2017
DeVos and Donald Trump with students in Florida
Dick and Betsy DeVos at the October 10, 2006 gubernatorial debate in Grand Rapids, MichiganIn their own words 3
I have decided to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence. Now I simply concede the point. They are right. We do expect something in return.
in , 1997 BETSY DEVOS, TRUMP’S BIG-DONOR EDUCATION SECRETARY, The New Yorker (November 23, 2016)
I would imagine that there’s probably a gun in the school to protect from potential grizzlies.
Betsy DeVos suggests guns be allowed in schools threatened by grizzly bears (2017)
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. . . .
From remarks at the American Federation of Children made in May of 2016, as quoted in "Betsy DeVos, the (Relatively Mainstream) Reformer,"
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About this person
Elisabeth Dee DeVos is an American politician, philanthropist, and former government official who served as the 11th United States secretary of education from 2017 to 2021. DeVos is known for her conservative political activism, and particularly her support for school choice, school voucher programs, and charter schools. She was Republican national committeewoman for Michigan from 1992 to 1997 and served as chair of the Michigan Republican Party from 1996 to 2000, and again from 2003 to 2005. She has advocated for the Detroit charter school system and she is a former member of the board of the Foundation for Excellence in Education. She has served as chair of the board of the Alliance for School Choice and the Acton Institute and headed the All Children Matter PAC.
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