FROM Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_DeVosDeVos served as chairwoman of the board of Alliance for School Choice[27] She heads the All Children Matter PAC which she and her husband founded in 2003 to promote school vouchers, tax credits to businesses that give private school scholarships, and candidates who support these causes.[28][29] Over the years, DeVos and her husband have provided millions in funding for the organization.[30]
Her other activities on behalf of public-school reform have included membership on the boards of directors of the Advocates for School Choice, the American Education Reform Council, and the Education Freedom Fund.[31] She has chaired the boards of Choices for Children, and Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP).[32] She has described GLEP as being "focused on supporting candidates who share a commitment to the issue of meaningful education reform," and CFC as being an "education reform watchdog organization" that is "focused on raising public awareness as to the merits of education reform."[18]
She has also been on the boards of the Acton Institute, the American Council of Young Political Leaders, Compass Arts Board, and was finance co-chair of the American Dream PAC.[33] According to a Florida publication, DeVos "excels in her efforts as an ambassador for governors with interest in this subject, like New Jersey's Chris Christie."[26]
DeVos said in the Spring 2013 issue of Philanthropy magazine that she was more optimistic than ever about school choice, noting that within the previous year, "the number of students in educational-choice programs grew by about 40,000." She said that "the public's awareness that traditional public schools are not succeeding" has "helped people become more open to what were once considered really radical reforms—reforms like vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts."[2]
She said that her involvement in the school-choice issue had increased gradually. A visit to the Potter's House Christian School in Grand Rapids had played a role, because the parents "were doing everything in their power to have their kids in an environment that was safe, where they were learning, and where the atmosphere was just electric with curiosity, with love for one another." Since "paying tuition was a real sacrifice" for the parents, DeVos and her husband "started supporting individual students at the school, and that grew into a larger commitment."[2]
Later, she also started "a foundation that gave scholarships to low-income families so that parents could decide where their kids would go to school." But she and her husband realized that "while it was wonderful to help some families through the scholarship fund, it was never going to fundamentally address the real problem." It was this realization, she said, that drove them to become involved in the movement for school choice
