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Teachers deserve more respect than many give them, and more opportunities than the system affords them today.

~Betsy Devos

Topics: Affords Deserve Give Many More Opportunities Respect System Teachers Than Them Today

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It shouldn't matter what type of school a student attends, so long as the school is the right fit for that student.

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Topics: Fit Long Matter Right School Student Type

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As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit, and it wasn't long before my family became part of the infamous 1%.

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Topics: Became Before Class Entrepreneurial Family Father Great Grew Infamous Innovator Kid Long Middle Middle Class Part Spirit Up

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Government tends to believe in top-down solutions, and government fears of bottom-up solutions.

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Topics: Believe Fears Government Solutions Tends

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Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win.

~Betsy Devos

Topics: Abhors After Any Battle Engagement First Good Government Improvisation Improvise Innovation Military Past Plan Rarely Stifle Survive Survives Tell Tends To Survive Will Win You

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Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.

~Betsy Devos

Topics: Bad Committees Generally Good Good Ideas Government Ideas Likes Lot Mush Produce Really

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President-elect Trump and I know it won't be Washington, D.C., that unlocks our nation's potential, nor a bigger bureaucracy, tougher mandates, or a federal agency. The answer is local control and listening to parents, students, and teachers.

~Betsy Devos

Topics: Agency Answer Bigger Bureaucracy Control Federal Know Listening Local Mandates Nation Nor Our Parents Potential Students Teachers Tougher Trump Washington

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Every child in America deserves to be in a safe environment that is free from discrimination.

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Topics: America Child Deserves Discrimination Environment Every Free Safe

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If a parent chooses to go to a school that is not a public school, then that is a decision made and a contract made with that provider.

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Topics: Chooses Contract Decision Go Made Parent Provider Public Public School School Then

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If you don't live in an area with good public schools, you can move to a different place if you have the financial means to do so.

~Betsy Devos

Topics: Area Different Different Place Financial Good Live Means Move Place Public Public Schools Schools You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: January 8th, 1958

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