Tim Kaine Exposes Betsy DeVos's Charter School Scam
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ม.ค. 2017
- Trump’s pick for education secretary Betsy DeVos wants her billionaire friends to be able to set up more cheap, substandard, charter schools all over the country. These schools rake in federal dollars yet aren’t held to any standards. The substandard parts are where the owner class saves (pockets) the money. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. tytnetwork.com/go
"Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary appeared stumped by senators when they asked her about a federal education law related to discrimination during her confirmation hearing Tuesday night.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) asked Betsy DeVos about how she’d enforce the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. IDEA, as the law is known, requires that public schools provide children with disabilities a “free and appropriate” education just like other students.
As DeVos danced around his questions, Kaine grew agitated, asking her point-blank if schools should have to follow federal law.
“Should all K-12 schools receiving government funding be required to meet the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act?” he asked.
“I think they already are,” DeVos responded, suggesting that no school is failing to meet the law.
“But I’m asking you a ‘should’ question,” Kaine followed up. “Should all schools that receive taxpayer funding be required to meet [the law]?”
“I think that’s a matter that’s best left to the states,” DeVos responded, essentially saying the federal government should abdicate enforcement of its own law.
Kaine pretty much lost it at that point.
“So some states might be good to kids with disabilities, other states might not be good, and then what? People can just move around the country if they don’t like [the schools]?””*
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If there is any sanity remaining in America...*Please reject her nomination...*
+Spoder Man omg dude again another TYT video you just troll every video?
Projection much Spoder dick?
Spoder Man You can't seriously support this nomination... she basically an answering machine...*Except with all the wrong Answers*
Also Everyone watch Secular talk (progressive media that I support)
The Senate already has the votes in the Senate to confirm her. Sorry commie
Screw this, she got owned by my homie Bernie!!
pitster110 only if you get Trump's out of yours.
pitster110 - because you want it in yours?
She felt the Bern.
The really disturbing thing is that her brother Erik Prince (of *Blackwater* infamy) is secretly advising Donald Trump on his national security policy picks. We don't need a Christian fundamentalist family running our country's education policy and foreign policy!
Betsy DeVos' Brother is the founder of Blackwater
www.democracynow.org/2017/1/18/scahill_blackwater_founder_erik_prince_the
She can't even answer a simple question!!! Not even her smile would get her out of a very sticky situation.
Its not that she can't, she *won't*. Its not an interview.
John Charles she's still trying to win votes. And she looks terrible here, and you know it
Kingballa I do. But this is what they are supposed to do. Confirmation hearings are also one of the few times Senators are seen actually doing their jobs. Its in their best interest to give their best "performance".
Cenk said she didn't bother studying anything about her job for this 'exam'. But she sure did learn a few standard stalls from a coach.
Cath' J J - It either comes naturally or KellyCon.
Trump's whole administration and cabinet is a circus.
DeVos seems smugly amused by the questions. My supposition is, she's been assured the Republicans will vote for her regardless of how clearly wrong she is for the job.
Cabochon1360 I agree...I don't think she really cares, she knows she's gonna be confirmed regardless.
Greg B lol ill
Morning I just got lp
What goes around comes around. get ready for 12 years of it. Maybe 16 Pence is most likely a two termer.
Cabochon1360 gh
Betsy DeVos is the real world Dolores Jane Umbridge
That would be an insult to Umbridge. At least that bitch went through the school system she took over. DeVos probably has never even touched a public school.
Andre Lee you know it's bad when you start defending Umbridge.
Andre- do you have to use the word "bitch" when referring to a woman?
i think she failed BIGLY...
and she will be leading education board! > it's going down
generations in jeopardy...
nhz013 she stated she will pay people to work her position.
Let me guess. You spent all K-12 in public school.
Tim kaine finally wakes up and is not boring
How much do you want to bet she has financial interests in charter schools?
Adam Martin , she does as well as the online K-12 SCHOOLS
HA! I knew it. Thanks Teresa. Sounds like someone hired a fox to guard the chicken coup.
And interests in adoption agencies, Bethany. Evil. She looks like she would rather eat children than educate them.
She’s also invested in debt collection services. 🤔
She does...her arguement is that Charter Schools and Online schools should receive funding so she can make more money hand over fist...this is just an investment for her and her cronies...
That's not an education secretary, that's a broken pull-string doll.
William Stewart the fact that she has no knowledge of education policies. That she is ok handing decisions for the States to decide, ignoring federal law. This isn't a Democrat/republican thing, it's about someone who is grossly unqualified to hold the position being applied for. Sorry me sitting in a t shirt offends you, as opposed to your faceless trolling profile.
William Stewart everyone's I.Q just lowered reading your comment lol. Stupid troll
William Stewart says the guy who praises Betsy Devos. Lol
William Stewart feminine? Lol. Um okay
William Stewart lol sad little troll. Strong keyboard muscles you have
Of all the horrible Trump nominees. This is by far the worst. She's YUGELY unqualified and refused to support Title XI, refused to enforce federal law for the disabled in schools and doesn't even know the difference between growth and proficiency
where was *this* Tim Kaine during the campaign, he's a badass!
jesus christ.... America you are in trouble.
If only Tim Kaine had brought up 10% of the enthusiasm here in the campaign.
Dex 'n Adora He did and got criticized for it.
That woman has no business even sitting before that panel.
I think I know why Trump picked her. He listened to her talk one time and was like "Damn, she's even better at not answering a single question than I am!" lol
she obviously doesn't support equal accountability. she is vague and avoids everything. she lies with a smile.
Hers has been the BIGGEST disaster of his nominations so far.
She makes Palin & Bachmann...seem like Rhodes Scholars
WHAT TYPE of accountability woman??? Damn just ANSWER THE FRICKIN QUESTION ALREADY
You have to know both sides of the school system, BOTH private AND public, to be appointed to this job
Especially with issues like Americans with Disabilities Act -----JUST ANSWER YES OR NO, DEVOS
nothing like being VAGUE VAGUE VAGUE, deVos!! Who do you think you are fooling?
The problem is the questions require a severe black-and-white answer, and that is not possible to give. She is not going to say YES or NO if what she means is SORT OF, or YES, I want the end goal, but want to get there differently, or YES, I am mostly in favor of that, but not in the following areas, a,b,c,d. If she even started a sentence with YES or NO, the questioner would have chopped it off right there, and it would have been a non-event.
and America you thought you had poor educational standards under Obama - four years time you will be wishing to have those standards. I feel sorry for your children.
Preach it brother! As a teacher I can't tell you how heartened I was by the last few minutes of this video. Too often we only pay lip service to the importance of education.
Senator Warren really went after her too
The smile is also embarrassment
does she have any idea of how stupid she appears?
IMISS toronto. Thats the thing ,she knows but with her billions she justdoes not care. Thats what piss's me off
Every time these nominees have given long drawn out, evasive answers to a simple yes or no questions, its usually a lie, trying to avoid the question completely or both.
Trump has a cabinet of Captain Planet villains
Kaine rocked!
Props to Tim Kaine for asking about IDEA. If charter and private schools were required to service special education students their business model would collapse.
"Is that a yes or a no?"
"I support accountability."
"Are you stupid in the head?"
"I support accountability."
We missed out on what would have been an awesome Vice President...
after seeing this, I must reject our new robot overlords
As a public school teacher that has worked for charters... this woman scares the shit out of me. When I worked at charters I was paid 6,000 dollars less than I was paid my first year of teaching while the "superintendents" of these scam buildings, with donated text books, paid themselves 250,000 a year in taxpayer dollars that they siphoned away from the real school district.... ugh!!!!
By her not answering a direct question disqualifies her immediately!
At this point Sir Gerbil Macintosh would be a better candidate than DeVos and he's just a gerbil.
Just burn it down. Burn it all down and start over.
well, I hope the DEPUTY Secretary of Education has a clue.
Can't you be held in contempt if you don't answer the questions? If not, what is the point of any of this?
Wow maybe Tim Kaine has got some teeth.
Tim Kaine trying to make a name for himself for 2020...
The Virgin Marty Can't Get Laid He said he won't run....
So he says...
Charter schools are exempt from most of the laws and regulations that public schools are subject to. You should be able to get a quality education at a public school.
If Public, public charter and private schools get federal funding (paid for by us taxpayers), they should have federal regulations. Something this Republican woman (who donated millions to the RNC) could not say. She danced all around it.
This honestly makes me sick. So mad, my son is deaf, so he has a disability status. He's only just turned five. Do they have no heart. I can't. They will do untold amounts of damage.
i found her responses regarding sexual assault on college campuses far more disturbing...
I bet Trump slaps her on the ass when they met.
If Tim Kaine would have had the balls to be this aggressive and straightforward during the election, or better yet, if it had been Elizabeth Warren and Tim Kaine, things might be very different right now.
My public education told me that the Native Americans were peaceful before the "English" settlers arrived. They also told me that by 2000 the Amazon Rain forest would be completely destroyed. I would later be asked to participate in a "Model of the U.N." re-enactment that did nothing but glorify what could could be done through centralization of government. I am very thankful to my parents that encouraged me to ask "why?". I was pushed through many advanced types of education and forced into remedial English ,with no explanation, until my teacher kept asking me "How does that make you feel?". Gifted as I was, they couldn't bare to let someone like me loose on the world without their tainted view.
If she "supports accountability", then why is she supporting trump?
welp... america is fucked
so shitty public schools and no free college, the american peoples education is going down the drain.
This is so very SAD! All children should receive the same education!
Ladies and gentlemen, when you are asked a question that prompts an absolute response of either "yes" or "no", one of those words must be the first coming out of your mouth; you can qualify your response as you please afterwards. Anything else is a clear sign of ass-covering.
Wasn't much of a fan of Tim Kaine, until now. That was great.
I'm an Education major at my university, and I am appalled if she actually becomes Secretary of Education. It makes me worry as a future teacher.
I'm proud to have an education. Thank you for your comment. :)
I like you too. :D
Mwahahaha! :D
Please, please, please--to all my friends in the states listed below. We cannot have Betsy Devos become the next secretary of education. It's not alarmist to imagine that her tenure in that role would be devastating to public education.
Two Republican senators (Murkowski (AK) - Collins (ME) flipped on Betsy DeVos, Trump's anti-public education billionaire, meaning only ONE vote is needed to deny her.
FRIENDS WHO LIVE IN PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO, KANSAS, AND ARIZONA (and also NEBRASKA, SOUTH CAROLINA, KENTUCKY, and FLORIDA) YOU HAVE LEVERAGE. Please call your Senators and ask them to oppose Betsy DeVos. One more vote and she's done.
The most likely to flip are:
Flake (R-AZ) 202-224-4521
Toomey (R-PA) 202-224-4254
Portman (R-OH) (202) 224-3353
Moran (R-KS) 202-224-6521
Other possibles:
Fischer (R-NE)* (202) 224-6551
Graham (R-SC) (202) 224-5972
McCain (R-AZ) (202) 224-2235
Paul (R-KY) (202) 224-4343
Rubio (R-FL) (202) 224-3041
Sasse (R-NE) (202) 224-4224
They need to hear from their constituents. Rather than calling an out of state Senator, consider asking your friends in one of these states to call. (That's what I'm doing.) We can win this one.
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Her experience, her qualifications? Giving $$ to the Repub. party.
We're fucked. We are all so fucked. If we all just keep smiling everything will be fine.
she obviously didnt donate enough to Tim Kaine's campaign
That background though 😂
DeVos seems unaware of the problem that George Bush railed against in the early months of his Administration, before 9/11 consumed his Presidency: the burden of leaving it up to States to decide how public school education was funded, held accountable and held to standards. The failing States generate problems which always spill over on to all other States.
When failing States cut funding or cannot design equitable funding, the education failures cause even more failure down the road. That failure spreads to the resources of other States. The economic impact of States that cannot generate sufficient income to support itself must seek federal bail outs that use up revenue generated from the GDP centers of the nation. These centers are largely Democratic and have been subsidizing the failing States for a long time.
The new tax reforms will make it more likely the successful States will want a greater return of the share of tax revenues they generate and a larger share of funds placed on the national credit card, as they will be paying back the bulk of the borrowed funds .
There are two waves of economic shock coming to all public functions - the steep loss of ready revenues for the federal government and the strengthened desires of GDP producing areas to retain the benefits of the wealth production they create.
The long history of failure of privatizing public education should be more recognized by its advocates. Part of that might include the requirement of a substantial bond from private ventures which can protect public money from being wasted or lost when large private ventures go bankrupt.
I am not from the US, but what is the realistic possibility that any of Trumps picks gets rejected?
I went to the equivalent of a charter school. It was a Catholic school that got government funding, and also got tuition from parents. There were minimum standards of math, science, language as always. But we had the extra benefit of getting an education in things like Catholic theology and social justice. My Physics teacher was a gay atheist, my biology teacher was a Darwinian atheist, my nuns were communists (except my English teacher, who was a Fascist). Prayers and Mass were provided, but not mandatory, and they brought in a Rabbi to teach Jewish theology to the three Jewish students we had. I took all AP classes, which meant that I got a college-level taste of REAL American history, which was intoxicating. They saved on money by having a smaller sports department, teachers who were willing to make a little less to be able to teach in that environment, and by employing nuns, who, being communists, lived in poverty and made next to no salary. It was AMAZING. I don't think this is the type of Charter school Betsy DeVos envisions, however. And that is sad.
I wonder if Betsy DeVos is aware that charter schools don't all have to be Secular or Christian. They can be Muslim. So, all you guys who want to infuse Christianity into American schooling: remember, there are Muslims waiting by to infuse Islam into American Schooling. I am personally not against either option, as long as there is a core of standard education that every American child can recognize in every other American child.
I think they should reject them all. And hold our representatives and senators on every issue.
Busted. Decades to get prepared, Betsy, but, FAIL.
A person does not donate that much money and NOT expect to get anything in return.
Since she and her husband started with Amway the charter schools are a logical followthrough.
Funny how she said 'federal funding for schools comes with strings attached'.
Said by the woman who donated $200 million dollars to Trump who just so happens to be in the business of running crappy private schools.
a couple years ago, the elementary school I went to became a charter school after its budget was cut to $7,000 per student. the kids now don't know how to use Microsoft Word or long division.
Money is awesome.....free unaccountable money is even awesomer!!!!
most public school teachers dont like her because of her charter schools ideas
More corporations might offer more box tops and labels from cans for education if funding is cut by congress. I hope it doesn't come down to this.
The disability question was incredibly important. Her answer did not respect the families of children with disabilities.
With the current administration for the last 8 years, charter schools have not had equal accountability, so why insist on that now?
What Betsy Davos fails to understand is that federal money comes from our taxes. It is out money to spend. Not here to cut
I can't help but think, as I look at that smug smile on her face, her thinking, "...so this is what it's like to lie to a Senator's face..."
:-D
Steven said "The problem with your schools is that it is funded through property tax, which is just stupid". This is the heart of the matter, I think. My kids went to great schools because the school system was in a rich area. Also, the kids were privileged, had everything they needed and did not have the pervasive stress that children in poverty endure.
The kind of smiling people exhibit when lying is called "duping delight". Watch out for that one!
This is what happens when you put greedy billionaires in public office. I just have one question.... Why are we allowing this to go on?
What's the point of all these questioning if she is still gonna be the education secretary no matter how she answer?
as a teacher she is my worst nightmare. couldn't answer a basic question on proficiency & growth. smh
One thing that I thought of concerning victims of bullying: they might not even _graduate_ because they kill themselves or are murdered!
I wonder how Drumpf & Co. would react if it was one of _their_ loved ones on the receiving end of bullying at school.
When someone cant give a yes or no answer to a yes or no question, that is a MAJOR RED FLAG!
Wow Tim Kaine did a great job not letting her off the hook.
Love Tim Kaine. Devos doesn't believe in accountability for HER and her ILK. This woman will destroy public education.
Um, how about this... no schools receive federal funding! The federal government has no business whatsoever in education. Let states handle their education. Give the choice to the people so that they can choose where and how to send their kids to school (or at all). btw as it stands the ROI for a public school in America ends at the second grade level... let that sink in.
Where did she come from?????
This is sad time in American history.
I have no words!
Wow that was a brutal beating with a bat. I feel I should have seen this on pay per view .
Please turn up the sound.
Until I realized she is a wealthy politician, I used to think Betsy Devos was some lady who wore frisbees on her head.
Now whip it, into shape.
Politics is maddeningly corrupt. I could never work at a news organisation, because looking at this mound of disgusting shit every day would eat my soul.
I know she's a nominee but did she actually become sect. Of Ed because if she is American education is fucked and I'm not from the US AND I FEEL sad for the kids there
'The senators are being rude'? Are you serious? Rude? This is what democracy must be all about. Demanding answers to reasonable questions about a nominee's suitability to stand as a minster of a government department. It's not rude Mr. Cenk, it's bloody well essential!
Report all bullying and harassment to your school Stasi administrator so that student can be enrolled in the re-education pogrom. For each student you report you will receive 5 Stasi points, 25 Stasi points guarantees you a position in the government.
And it's 2020, and she is still a wealthy, complete waste of tax dollars. Straight into the corruption fund.
SHE DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE HOW MUCH SHE IS THROWING WHERE SHE IS OBLIGATED TO OF THE EDUCATIN FUNDING!
"It's as if elections matter."
I died :,D
Devos is a high ranking public enemy. Must be removed from her position ASAP!
Jimmy Dore doesn't give a shit about poor kids who lives will be ruined forever. NEVER HILLARY!
can I get a picture of just the background
Call your senators and tell them to vote NO for Betsy Devos. Write letters! Go to change.org and sign the petition to vote NO for Betsy Devos. Your voice matters #wethepeople
Boycott Amway. The company her family own.
Petition DeVos be removed from
Secretary of Education
The problem with answering Yes or No, is that if you have to go back on your work you are perceived as a liar. Most issues need to be discussed and modified based on current information. I would prefer someone that wants to look at the facts and make a great decision versus someone that is willing to shoot from the hip to make someone happy.
I am fine with politicians being occasionally corrupt. It's unavoidable. What I don't understand is how someone so incompetent is even being considered for such a position in the first place.