{"id":1533997,"date":"2022-06-30T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533997"},"modified":"2022-06-30T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:50:29","slug":"education-freedom-for-all-kids-an-interview-with-betsy-devos-former-secretary-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/education-freedom-for-all-kids-an-interview-with-betsy-devos-former-secretary-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Education Freedom For All Kids\u2019: An Interview With Betsy DeVos, Former Secretary Of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feducation-freedom-for-all-kids-an-interview-with-betsy-devos-former-secretary-of-education%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533997&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Daily Wire recently sat down with former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to discuss her new book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hostages-No-More-Education-American\/dp\/1546002014\">Hostages No More<\/a>: The Fight For Education Freedom And The Future Of The American Child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DW: Secretary DeVos, thank you for joining The Daily Wire. Your new book opens by reflecting on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/glenn-youngkin-outlines-his-plan-to-make-virginias-education-system-number-one-in-nation\">Glenn Youngkin\u2019s<\/a> surprise win in the race for Governor of Virginia. Why was that an important race?<\/p>\n<p>DeVos: Well, I think what happened in that Virginia race really brought into focus for many people what they were sort of feeling and noticing, and when Terry McAuliffe doubled down on his statement that no parents really should be involved in their kids\u2019 education, many people thought he would roll it back. No. Instead, he doubled down by having Randi Weingarten as his capper to the last night of his campaign. It really set up a clear delineation for folks. He really personified the Democrats\u2019 position \u2014 that they really do fall in lockstep with the teachers union. Many parents realized the last two years they\u2019re really not in charge, and so that race kind of helped bring all that into focus in a major way.<\/p>\n<p>DW: What\u2019s taking place today in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/virginia-dems-say-holding-an-election-for-loudoun-school-board-this-year-would-subvert-democracy\">Loudoun County, Virginia<\/a>, is reminiscent of the battles Former Governor Scott Walker faced in Wisconsin with the teachers unions. Do you think we will see more of these battles?<\/p>\n<p>DeVos: I do. We\u2019ve seen a lot of the head-to-head in a number of states over the years, and I think that\u2019s going to continue to accelerate. The status quo \u2014 teachers and school unions and all of their allies \u2014 they\u2019ve continued to double down on their position, which is: do not allow any kind of competition to what we\u2019ve got going here. In fact, their attacks on charter schools \u2014 which are, as we know, a form of choice \u2014 have continued to look at charters as something to be rolled back and defeated, if possible, and they have a complicit administration in Washington, D.C. right now. The First Lady is a member of the NEA, and my successor put into the office of the Secretary of Education \u2014 the secretary\u2019s personal office \u2014 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/policy-politics\/early-education-department-appointees-have-links-to-jill-biden-teachers-unions\/2021\/01\">teachers union liaison<\/a> as a staff position. So, it shows where the priorities are.<\/p>\n<p>DW: We\u2019ve all heard about \u2018The Swamp\u2019 in Washington, D.C. over the years. What was your experience with \u2018The Swamp\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>DeVos: Well, I knew that a federal agency would be a large bureaucracy. I did not fully appreciate, until I started working there, how formidable the bureaucracy is and how they really can thwart you accomplishing a lot of things. I cite several examples, in the book, of mind-boggling ways in which the simplest of tasks and simplest of things were thwarted. It was really revealing in that way, but also convicting to me about how out-of-touch and how overgrown the federal workforce has become. There were good people who were career staffers in the department, and we found a number who worked well together, but the vast majority you could almost feel the animosity that radiated from them.<\/p>\n<p>DW: You recently recorded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hostages-No-More-Education-American\/dp\/B09S84D3D7\/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&#038;qid=1656621658&#038;sr=1-1\">audiobook<\/a> version of \u201cHostages No More.\u201d How long did it take to record the book?<\/p>\n<p>DeVos: It took six days, four to seven hours a day, depending on what segments we were doing. Never having done it before, I didn\u2019t really know what to expect. It was part of my lifelong learning experience! It really was fun, but it was also very fatiguing. I would say I probably like doing it, but I don\u2019t love public speaking. I did stand the entire time because I knew that would be better for energy and breath.<\/p>\n<p>DW: What is your message to young conservatives today?<\/p>\n<p>DeVos: I actually articulated a number of those things in my book, specifically with regard to education. Let me echo a couple of them here. First of all, if they are young parents and are frustrated with what their options are, they should, number one, make sure that they\u2019re supporting candidates for office that actually support education freedom policy \u2014 and then hold them to that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Number two, they can start a school. They can start with themselves, and they can do that best if they are empowered with the resources that are going to be spent on their child anyway \u2014 if they have the ability to control those resources.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/homeschooling-rates-doubled-during-2020\">dramatic increase<\/a> in homeschoolers in the last year-and-a-half. I actually think that\u2019s a very positive thing, because I think we\u2019re going to see a lot more creativity and a lot higher quality experience for the families that have chosen that direction. We need to just make sure that policy is going to support and encourage those who want to pursue that direction.<\/p>\n<p>DW: You use the term \u2018freedom\u2019 throughout the book. Why?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DeVos:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Wire recently sat down with former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to discuss her new book \u201cHostages No More: The Fight For Education Freedom And The Future Of The American Child.\u201d DW: Secretary DeVos, thank you for joining The Daily Wire. Your new book opens by reflecting on Glenn Youngkin\u2019s surprise win in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":1534098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1534098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}