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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
I expect there will be more public charter schools.
Betsy DeVos
Will
More
Charter
Charter Schools
Schools
Expect
Public
I expect there will be more virtual schools.
Betsy DeVos
Will
Virtual
More
Schools
Expect
Social justice and economics are both issues to me.
Betsy DeVos
Me
Justice
Economics
Both
Issues
Social
Social Justice
We knew we had the resources to send our kids to whatever school was best for them.
Betsy DeVos
Best
School
Whatever
Our
Resources
Kids
Had
Knew
Send
Them
Discrimination in any form is wrong. I don't support discrimination in any form.
Betsy DeVos
Wrong
Support
Discrimination
Any
Form
Let me say, I fully embrace equality, and I believe in the innate value of every single human being and that all students, no matter their age, should be able to attend a school and feel safe and be free of discrimination.
Betsy DeVos
Me
Age
Equality
Human Being
School
Matter
Value
Free
Single
Believe
Every
Say
Embrace
Able
Students
Attend
Feel
Safe
Discrimination
Human
Being
Should
Fully
Innate
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.
Betsy DeVos
Heart
Opportunities
Three
Kids
Has-Been
Kind
Allow
Had
Empower
Been
Families
Decades
Same
Where
Really
I greatly appreciate being asked to be part of President-elect Trump's team and I will continue to enthusiastically support him and his agenda for American renewal.
Betsy DeVos
Will
Enthusiastically
Part
Support
Him
Renewal
Continue
His
Trump
Greatly
American
Being
Agenda
Asked
Team
Appreciate
Dick and I became increasingly committed to helping other parents - parents from low-income families in particular.
Betsy DeVos
Parents
Other
Increasingly
Particular
Became
Families
Committed
Low-Income
Helping
When governors such as John Engler, Mike Huckabee, and Mike Pence were driving the conversation on voluntary high standards driven by local voices, it all made sense.
Betsy DeVos
Conversation
Made
Sense
Local
High
John
High Standards
Voices
Driven
Driving
Voluntary
Were
Governors
Mike
Standards
If the question is around gun violence and the results of that, please know that my heart bleeds and is broken for those families that have lost any individual due to gun violence.
Betsy DeVos
Broken
Heart
Gun
Lost
Please
Those
Results
Individual
Bleeds
Know
Around
Due
Question
Families
Any
Violence
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
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