“It is time to break through political barriers to opportunity for all learners”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 6, 2017
WASHINGTON, DC — Declaring that “parents everywhere, especially those who despair at finding their children locked into failing schools and robbed of hope for their futures, will find that they have a true friend in Betsy DeVos,” the Founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform today urged the U.S. Senate to confirm Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.
In a letter to Senator Lamar Alexander, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Jeanne Allen wrote,”Betsy DeVos has devoted much of her adult life to the cause of finding and supporting efforts to eradicate illiteracy, to equalize education options for children, and to ensure that those who do not have what she has been fortunate to have in life have just as many opportunities.”
Allen, who founded the Center for Education Reform nearly three decades ago, noted that she has “had the pleasure of working with Betsy in many places where we’ve shared the ramparts in a common battle for education reform, choice and innovation.”
“It is time to break through political barriers to opportunity for all learners, at all levels,” Allen continued. “I urge you and all of your colleagues to look past the political posturing and understand that a fresh, worldly, bold thinker is precisely what we need today as the helm of the U.S. Department of Education,” Allen concluded.
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Related resource: CER CEO Jeanne Allen’s letter to Senator Lamar Alexander.