{"id":1170,"date":"2020-08-10T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitchentablecult.com\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2021-04-19T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T17:20:09","slug":"s2-e26-betsy-devos-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitchentablecult.com\/2020\/08\/10\/s2-e26-betsy-devos-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"S2 E26: Betsy DeVos Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"S2 E26: Betsy Devos Part 1 by Kitchen Table Cult\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F873489400&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>S2 E26: Betsy Devos Part 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kieryn and Eve (FINALLY) discuss Devos&#8217; history and relationship to HSLDA to begin understanding what her recent attack on public education means and why HSLDA isn&#8217;t fighting against the free government money they are notorious for hating. Hint: It&#8217;s not good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Show Notes:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fact Sheet on the Devos Plan<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncpecoalition.org\/trump-voucher-plan\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><strong>https:\/\/www.ncpecoalition.org\/trump-voucher-plan<\/strong><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kushner&#8217;s COVID plan: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2020\/07\/how-jared-kushners-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><strong>https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2020\/07\/how-jared-kushners-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air<\/strong><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>True Believer&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780060505912\">https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780060505912<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Betsy_DeVos\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Betsy_DeVos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HSLDA finds an Ally in Devos<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/onenewsnow.com\/education\/2017\/05\/28\/devos-championing-homeschool-freedom-whslda\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>https:\/\/onenewsnow.com\/education\/2017\/05\/28\/devos-championing-homeschool-freedom-whslda<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Devos is de-funding the public schools by giving that money to parents instead<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/betsy-devos-coronavirus-private-schools\/2020\/06\/15\/0c484d94-a50b-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/betsy-devos-coronavirus-private-schools\/2020\/06\/15\/0c484d94-a50b-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Things we didn&#8217;t even get to:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/influential-conservative-group-trump-devos-should-dismantle-education-department-and-bring-god-into-classrooms\/2017\/02\/15\/196bf872-f2df-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html?utm_term=.6963caa4d407\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/influential-conservative-group-trump-devos-should-dismantle-education-department-and-bring-god-into-classrooms\/2017\/02\/15\/196bf872-f2df-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html<\/u><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rebekahbastian\/2020\/07\/19\/how-educational-inequality-in-america-could-be-impacted-by-the-homeschooling-pod-frenzy\/?fbclid=IwAR0RgjNF50-fzpvlQLjb_VlLVNO-oc7kA1BKOoooSz5lHwFcrCFUpJBMbP0#422140872cba\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rebekahbastian\/2020\/07\/19\/how-educational-inequality-in-america-could-be-impacted-by-the-homeschooling-pod-frenzy\/<\/u><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-07-22\/parents-working-from-home-want-more-support-for-home-schooling\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-07-22\/parents-working-from-home-want-more-support-for-home-schooling<\/u><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianheadlines.com\/contributors\/michael-foust\/if-schools-dont-open-the-funding-should-go-to-the-parents-trump-says.html?fbclid=IwAR3tb39IfYy6FEZK_jtbPE9MNJv7Q4vmts_QA4s569dwsPAhZFq4BMdKAaU\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>https:\/\/www.christianheadlines.com\/contributors\/michael-foust\/if-schools-dont-open-the-funding-should-go-to-the-parents-trump-says.html<\/u><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S2 E26: Betsy Devos Part 1 Kieryn and Eve (FINALLY) discuss Devos&#8217; history and relationship to HSLDA to begin understanding what her recent attack on public education means and why HSLDA isn&#8217;t fighting against the free government money they are notorious for hating. Hint: It&#8217;s not good. Show Notes:&nbsp; Fact Sheet on the Devos Planhttps:\/\/www.ncpecoalition.org\/trump-voucher-plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[230,44,231],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-betsy-devos","tag-education","tag-public-school","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kitchentablecult.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ktc-iconsmall.png?fit=400%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa4b1N-iS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchentablecult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchentablecult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchentablecult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchentablecult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchentablecult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kitchentablecult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/kitchentablecult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchentablecult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchentablecult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchentablecult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchentablecult.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}