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Betsy DeVos
American
Public Servant
Born:
Jan 8
,
1958
Any
Education
People
School
Will
You
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I don't think Donald Trump represents the Republican Party... I think more and more people are going to realize that they really don't trust him.
Betsy DeVos
Trust
People
Party
Think
More
More And More
More People
Him
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Going
Represents
Republican
Republican Party
Realize
Really
Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.
Betsy DeVos
Education
Good
Quality
Commitment
Made
Nation
Every
Think
Our
Paradigm
Must
Individual
Investments
Institutions
Quality Education
Buildings
Shift
Provide
Accordingly
Child
Common
Children
Common Good
Public
Serve
Funding
Teaching is hard. It takes a lot of skill. Not everyone who tries can do it well. We need to admit that and act accordingly. We should reward and respect great teachers by paying them more, and we should stop rewarding seniority over effectiveness.
Betsy DeVos
Great
Respect
Reward
Everyone
Tries
Admit
More
Takes
Over
Great Teachers
Well
Lot
Accordingly
Effectiveness
Rewarding
Seniority
Stop
Them
Skill
Should
Act
Teachers
Hard
Paying
Teaching
Who
Need
Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win.
Betsy DeVos
Government
Good
You
Innovation
Battle
Win
Will
First
Past
Improvise
Military
Tell
Abhors
Rarely
Tends
Stifle
Survive
Survives
Improvisation
Any
After
To Survive
Plan
Engagement
Strategist
If we can manage to break free, to open the system and embrace all choices for education, we will be the first to give politicians awards to hang on their office walls.
Betsy DeVos
Education
Walls
Will
Free
First
Politicians
System
Embrace
Be The First
Give
Open
Office
Manage
Hang
Break
Choices
Awards
If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools.
Betsy DeVos
Great
Strong
Will
Public Schools
Schools
Advocate
Confirmed
Public
Let's choose to hear one another out.
Betsy DeVos
Out
Another
Hear
Choose
The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position stronger. But we will not solve the significant and real problems our country faces if we cannot bring ourselves to embrace a mindset of grace.
Betsy DeVos
Natural
Conflict
Grace
Problems
Will
Stronger
Country
Our
Mindset
We Cannot
Ourselves
Significant
Solve
Embrace
Faces
Voice
Join
Point
Instinct
Make
Real
Louder
Real Problems
Bigger
Cannot
Your
Chorus
Bring
Position
We must first listen, then speak - with humility - to genuinely hear the perspectives of those with whom we don't immediately or instinctively agree.
Betsy DeVos
Speak
First
Humility
Immediately
Those
Must
Instinctively
Genuinely
Hear
Listen
Then
Perspectives
Agree
Whom
Education broadens our horizons and enables us to confront realities we'd never before anticipated.
Betsy DeVos
Education
Before
Our
Horizons
Never
Enables
Anticipated
Realities
Confront
Us
As we know, lots of people working together to solve problems doesn't happen often enough, particularly here in Washington.
Betsy DeVos
Working Together
Together
People
Problems
Enough
Solve
Know
Particularly
Lots
Often
Happen
Working
Washington
Here
My faith motivates me to really try to work on behalf of and advocate for those who are least able to advocate for themselves.
Betsy DeVos
Work
Faith
Me
Try
Those
Able
Advocate
Least
Motivates
Behalf
Themselves
Really
Who
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.
Betsy DeVos
Education
Today
You
Travel
Experience
Important
Other
Say
Kids
Would
Ability
See
Most
Cultures
Any
Ask
Homeschooling represents another perfectly valid educational option.
Betsy DeVos
Valid
Perfectly
Another
Educational
Option
Represents
When it comes to education, no solution, not even ones we like, should be dictated or run from Washington, D.C.
Betsy DeVos
Education
Run
Solution
Like
Dictated
Should
Even
Washington
We won't accomplish our goals by creating a new federal bureaucracy or by bribing states with their own taxpayers' money.
Betsy DeVos
Money
Goals
Own
Our
States
Federal
New
Accomplish
Bureaucracy
Taxpayers
Creating
I will not be conflicted. Period. I commit that to you all.
Betsy DeVos
You
Will
Period
Commit
They say that if you voted for Donald Trump, you're a threat to the university community. But the real threat is silencing the First Amendment rights of people with whom you disagree.
Betsy DeVos
You
Rights
People
Disagree
First
Community
Say
Silencing
Threat
First Amendment
First Amendment Rights
Voted
Real
Trump
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Donald
Donald Trump
Whom
They Say
University
Assault in any form is never OK, and I want to be very clear on that.
Betsy DeVos
OK
Never
Clear
Very
Any
Want
Form
Assault
I expect there will be more private schools.
Betsy DeVos
Will
More
Schools
Private
Private Schools
Expect
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.
Betsy DeVos
Leadership
You
Change
Important
Partner
Beside
Students
Support
Empowers
Proud
Agents
Stand
Special
Program
Olympics
I look forward to talking about how we can work together to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for all students while also refocusing the federal role in education.
Betsy DeVos
Work
Education
Together
Opportunities
Outcomes
About
Federal
Students
Look
Also
Talking
How
Educational
Educational Opportunities
Role
Improve
While
Work Together
Forward
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.
Betsy DeVos
Needs
Will
Parents
Giving
Build
Energy
State
State Level
Way
States
Case
More
New
Continue
Goal
Debated
Undoubtedly
Discussed
New Way
Going
Where
Bigger
Energy Needs
Choices
Many
Momentum
Level
The bottom line is we believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children's schooling and education decisions.
Betsy DeVos
Education
Best
Parents
Believe
Bottom
Bottom Line
Schooling
Make
Equipped
Line
Children
Decisions
Choices
All schools that receive public funding should be accountable, yes.
Betsy DeVos
Schools
Yes
Accountable
Public
Should
Receive
Funding
I can assure you I have never made decisions on my mother's behalf on her foundation's board.
Betsy DeVos
You
Mother
Made
Assure
Never
Behalf
Board
Decisions
Foundation
Her
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