Quotes by Betsy Devos - Page 2

I can now video chat with my grandkids from any corner of the world, listen to music, or order food and have it delivered to my front door.
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Grandkids
Video
Chat
Corner
Delivered
Door
Front Door
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That's where my heart has been for three decades is to really empower and allow all families the same kind of opportunities I've had for my kids.
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Decades
Empower
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I don't think Donald Trump represents the Republican Party... I think more and more people are going to realize that they really don't trust him.
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Trust
Party
Republican Party
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
More And More
Realize
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As a mom, I just can't imagine having a child who would feel discriminated against for any reason, and I would want my child in a safe environment.
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Discriminated
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We must first listen, then speak - with humility - to genuinely hear the perspectives of those with whom we don't immediately or instinctively agree.
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Agree
Humility
Genuinely
Immediately
Instinctively
Perspectives
Whom
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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.
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Bad Ideas
Committees
Good Ideas
Likes
Good Government Bad
Mush
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Just as the traditional taxi system revolted against ride sharing, so too does the education establishment feel threatened by the rise of school choice.
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Establishment
Taxi
Threatened
Traditional
Rise
Choice
Ride
Sharing
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Opening a complaint for investigation in no way implies that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has made a determination about the merits of the complaint.
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Civil Rights
Determination
Investigation
Opening
Complaint
Implies
Merits
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We, as a society, will benefit from the interest young people show beginning at first, second, and third grades. As a result, there's great promise in the future.
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Grades
Promise
Benefit
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We should celebrate the fact that, unlike some countries in the world, the United States makes promises that we will never send any student away from our schools.
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Celebrate
World Will Never
Countries
Student
Unlike
Promises
Schools
Send
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If you can't get cell phone service in your living room, then your particular provider is failing you. You should have the option to find a network that does work.
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Cell Phone
Failing
Living Room
Cell
Option
Network
Provider
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I greatly appreciate being asked to be part of President-elect Trump's team and I will continue to enthusiastically support him and his agenda for American renewal.
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Renewal
Enthusiastically
Greatly
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I'm proud to stand beside you as a partner and support Special Olympics - an important program that promotes leadership and empowers students to be agents of change.
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Agents
Olympics
Beside
Empowers
Partner
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When governors such as John Engler, Mike Huckabee, and Mike Pence were driving the conversation on voluntary high standards driven by local voices, it all made sense.
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Driven
Governors
High Standards
Mike
Standards
Voices
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If we can manage to break free, to open the system and embrace all choices for education, we will be the first to give politicians awards to hang on their office walls.
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Awards
Break
Choices
Embrace
Manage
Office
Be The First
Politicians
Hang
Walls
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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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Entrepreneurial
Entrepreneurial Spirit
Infamous
Middle Class
Family Great Father
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If you ask any of my kids today what their most important experience was in their education, they would say it was the travel and the ability to see and be in other cultures.
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Cultures
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I look forward to talking about how we can work together to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for all students while also refocusing the federal role in education.
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Educational
Outcomes
Educational Opportunities
Opportunities
Work Together
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HBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice. They are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality.
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Living Proof
Pioneers
Proof
Afforded
Options
Provided
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If the question is around gun violence and the results of that, please know that my heart bleeds and is broken for those families that have lost any individual due to gun violence.
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Broken
Gun
Please
Due
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They say that if you voted for Donald Trump, you're a threat to the university community. But the real threat is silencing the First Amendment rights of people with whom you disagree.
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Disagree
First Amendment
First Amendment Rights
Silencing
Threat
Trump
University
Voted
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Donald
Donald Trump
They Say
Whom
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The president has made good on a promise to ensure that the American people are not subject to overreach... and fulfilled a commitment to keep America first and focus on American jobs.
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American Jobs
Fulfilled
Promise
American People
Ensure
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The older generations are too wedded to political parties, too wedded to romantic memories of what education was like when they were kids, and too wedded to the status quo group that clings to power.
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Generations
Memories
Political Parties
Status Quo
Group
Older
Parties
Quo
Status
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At my direction, the Department's Office for Civil Rights remains committed to investigating all claims of discrimination, bullying, and harassment against those who are most vulnerable in our schools.
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Bullying
Civil Rights
Committed
Department
Discrimination
Harassment
Investigating
Remains
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Parents no longer believe that a one-size-fits-all model of learning meets the needs of every child. And they know other options exist, whether magnet, virtual, charter, home, faith-based, or any other combination.
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Charter
Combination
Faith Based
Magnet
One Size Fits All
Meets
Options
Virtual
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Let me say, I fully embrace equality, and I believe in the innate value of every single human being and that all students, no matter their age, should be able to attend a school and feel safe and be free of discrimination.
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Equality
Discrimination
Embrace
Innate
Safe
Single
Age Believe Me
Attend
Fully
Human Being
Value
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It is not fair to think that when students transit through a K-12 system that is not preparing them for beyond, that somehow we are going to wave a magic wand and things are going to be perfect for them at the higher-ed level.
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Magic
Not Fair
Perfect
Preparing
Wave
Beyond
Fair
Magic Wand
Somehow
System
Transit
Wand
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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.
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Battle
Engagement
Improvisation
Innovation
Military
Strategist
Abhors
Plan
Rarely
Stifle
Survive
Tends
To Survive
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There isn't really any Common Core any more. Each state is able to set the standards for their state. They may elect to adopt very high standards for their students to aspire to and to work toward. And that will be up to each state.
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Aspire
Core
High Standards
Standards
Work May Will
Adopt
Elect
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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.
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Agency
Bureaucracy
Mandates
Tougher
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It could be easy to get frustrated or discouraged when it comes to educating students with disabilities. But that's because there are too often artificial barriers and roadblocks that limit your ability to focus on meeting their individual needs.
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Artificial
Barriers
Discouraged
Frustrated
Disabilities
Educating
Limit
Meeting
Roadblocks
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I need to stress that I could not be more supportive of great teachers and great teaching, no matter what kind of delivery vehicle they are teaching through. We have to support great teachers. They just have to be freed up to do what they do best.
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Delivery
Supportive
Vehicle
Teachers
Freed
Great Teachers
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Teaching is hard. It takes a lot of skill. Not everyone who tries can do it well. We need to admit that and act accordingly. We should reward and respect great teachers by paying them more, and we should stop rewarding seniority over effectiveness.
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Respect
Effectiveness
Seniority
Accordingly
Act
Admit
Teachers
Great Teachers
Paying
Reward
Skill
Tries
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We'll be examining and auditing and reviewing all of the programs of the department and really figuring out what is the core mission and how can the federal department of education really support and enhance the role of the departments in the states.
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Department
Examining
Enhance
Figuring
Programs
Mission
Reviewing
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Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.
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Education
Quality
Children
Commitment
Common
Common Good
Funding
Individual
Institutions
Made
Paradigm
Quality Education
Child
Accordingly
Buildings
Every
Nation
Public
Must
Investments
Provide
Serve
Shift
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The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position stronger. But we will not solve the significant and real problems our country faces if we cannot bring ourselves to embrace a mindset of grace.
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Bigger
Chorus
Conflict
Embrace
Faces
Grace
Instinct
Mindset
Natural
Position
Real Problems
Significant
Solve
Stronger
Voice
Join
Louder
Problems
We Cannot
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The bigger goal of giving all parents more choices is one that will have to be discussed and undoubtedly roundly debated, but we are going to have to continue to build the case. The momentum is there on the state level in many states. That's where the energy needs to be harnessed in a new way.
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Momentum
Energy Will New
Debated
Discussed
Energy Needs
New Way
State Level
Undoubtedly
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When we had segregated schools and when we had a time when, you know, girls weren't allowed to have the same kind of sports teams - I mean, there have been important inflection points for the federal government to get involved in some of the areas around protecting students and ensuring safe environments for them - there is a role to play.
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Federal Government
Ensuring
Environments
Protecting
Segregated
Teams
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