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Trump’s Choice For U.S. Secretary Of Education Has History Of Promoting School Choiceā€¯

Current Secretary Of EducationDeVos, fifty eight, chairs the American Federation for Children, an advocacy group that has aggressively pushed to develop constitution colleges and faculty voucher applications that provide families with public money to spend on personal faculty tuition.

Miriam Defensor Santiago. She was a former Commissioner of the Philippine Bureau of Immigration and Deportation ( 1988) and a former Secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) (1989-1991). She is an incumbent Philippine Senator. Founder of People’s Reform Party. True. At least, insofar as DeVos favors the proliferation of charter schools, a few of which are organized as for-revenue businesses.

Department Budget: $69.4 billion (FY 2017). In addition, the Education Department gives over $150 billion in new and consolidated loans annually. Religious Affiliation: DeVos grew up within the Christian Reformed Church and, extra recently, was a member and served on the elder board of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Michigan.

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