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DeVos called HBCUs 'pioneers' of 'school choice.' It didn't go over well.
DeVos called HBCUs 'pioneers' of 'school choice.' It didn't go over well.
Many advocates of historically black colleges and universities were apoplectic after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos called the group of schools forged at the height of racial segregation "pioneers" of "school choice." DeVos issued a statement Monday evening after a meeting with HBCU leaders, praising their schools for identifying "a system that wasn't working" and taking it "upon themselves to provide the solution" from the outset of their founding.
washingtonpost.com




Ugh. The level of insensitivity and ignorance.
If only there was some department in charge of education she could get the information from or if she had some people around who could tell her the history of the schools...
Oh I'm sure she knows what the history of schools are. That's probably what she means by "a system that wasn't working". What she's saying is, instead of fixing a broken and inequitable system, she wants to "empower" people to create their own "alternatives".