Cases Quote by David Brooks

Much of the criticism centered around Betsy DeVos focuses on her lack of experience with public schools. While she has shown some interest in…

— Ana Kasparian

The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.

— David Brooks

“For secretary of education there was Betsy DeVos, a fierce promoter of privatized schools and a wealthy lobbyist who raised ungodly amounts of money…

— Jared Yates Sexton

My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.

— Randi Weingarten

Betsy DeVos, for example, has shown that she’s flatly ignorant of an astounding amount of basic education policy. It might be possible to persuade…

— Kevin Drum

There is no more staunch advocate for taking public dollars and giving them to private schools - private schools that can pick the students…

— Claudio Sanchez

[Betsy DeVos] does care about charter schools, which are public schools. She does care about choice, which is a perfectly legitimate thing to care…

— David Brooks

On the [Betsy] DeVos case, I agree that the gun - her gun position is kind of weird, kind of crazy, but I do…

— David Brooks

[Betsy DeVos] is quite a smart person, capable, pretty sophisticated in subtle thought. And so to me, that puts her in the realm of…

— David Brooks

Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she presents as…

— David Brooks

Would [Betsy DeVos] be my first pick? No. Is she someone who has dedicated her life to education policy? Yes, actually, she has.

— David Brooks

President-elect [Donald] Trump has made a provocative choice for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos comes from a wealthy Michigan family. She is an advocate…

— Steve Inskeep