Kieryn and Eve discuss Devos' history and relationship to HSLDA to begin understanding what her recent attack on public education means and why HSLDA isn't fighting against the free government money they are notorious for hating. Hint: It's not good.
Show Notes:
Fact Sheet on the Devos Plan
https://www.ncpecoalition.org/trump-voucher-plan
Kushner's COVID plan
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-kushners-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air
True Believer
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060505912
Background
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_DeVos
HSLDA finds an Ally in Devos
https://onenewsnow.com/education/2017/05/28/devos-championing-homeschool-freedom-whslda
Devos is de-funding the public schools by giving that money to parents instead
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/betsy-devos-coronavirus-private-schools/2020/06/15/0c484d94-a50b-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html
Things we didn't even get to:
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/influential-conservative-group-trump-devos-should-dismantle-education-department-and-bring-god-into-classrooms/2017/02/15/196bf872-f2df-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebekahbastian/2020/07/19/how-educational-inequality-in-america-could-be-impacted-by-the-homeschooling-pod-frenzy/
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/parents-working-from-home-want-more-support-for-home-schooling
- https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/if-schools-dont-open-the-funding-should-go-to-the-parents-trump-says.html
