Flashback: Elizabeth Warren once promoted school vouchers
DeVos nemesis wanted 'choice' for families stuck with 'lousy schools'
Published: 13 hours ago
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s main problem with President Trump’s nominee for education secretary, Betsy DeVos, was DeVos’ support for “school choice,” accomplished largely through a system of vouchers that would enable students in poor neighborhoods to go to better schools.
But Warren herself, a champion of the Democratic Party’s far left, was once an eloquent advocate of vouchers, as Powerline’s Scott Johnson pointed out Friday, citing RedState’s Joe Cunningham.
Yet during DeVos’ contentious confirmation hearings, Warren declared in a letter to DeVos that her advocacy for school choice and voucher programs should raise alarm bells for supporters of public education.
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