The Massachusetts senator says Betsy DeVos is the 'the worst Secretary of Education we’ve seen'
WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren may be best known for her public flaying of inept financial executives and aggressive policy ideas aimed at the banking industry, but the Massachusetts senator is setting the pace among the 2020 contenders when it comes to education.
In an email blast, she said that Betsy DeVos, President Trump’s current education secretary and a long-time advocate of charter schools and foe of teachers unions, was “the worst Secretary of Education we’ve seen” and that the people she’d surrounded herself with “are up to their eyeballs in conflicts of interest.”
Warren has almost singlehandedly driven the debate around education in the 2020 presidential race. In late April, she announced a plan — first reported by Rolling Stone — to tackle the nation’s student-debt crisis, giving some form of debt relief to the vasty majority of the 45 million Americans who together hold $1.5 trillion in student debt.
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