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SharePolitics &amp; ElectionsRacial JusticePolitics &amp; ElectionsEnvironment &amp; HealthPolitics &amp; ElectionsWar &amp; PeaceSen. Bernie Sanders late Tuesday called Betsy DeVos “the worst education secretary in the history of America” and made abundantly clear that he’s not mourning her imminent departure after the billionaire school privatization zealot lashed out at proposals to cancel student loan debt and make public colleges and universities tuition-free.“What do you call a billionaire who registered a $40 million, 164-foot yacht in the Cayman Islands to avoid $2.4 million in U.S. taxes, while undermining public schools? The worst education secretary in the history of America,” the Vermont senator, a of student debt cancellation and tuition-free higher education. “Bye-bye, Betsy DeVos. You won’t be missed.”In a at an Education Department financial aid conference on Tuesday, the outgoing education secretary dismissed as “government gift-giving” proposals to forgive crippling student loan debt and eliminate tuition for public colleges and universities.“We’ve heard shrill calls to cancel, to forgive, to make it all free. Any innocuous label out there can’t obfuscate what it really is: Wrong,” said DeVos, who last year handing the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio over to a “stand-alone government corporation.” Critics slammed the proposal as an attempt to prevent the next president from canceling any of the debt.President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to forgive a portion of the student debt held by tens of millions of Americans and make public colleges and universities tuition-free for families with . The former vice president has not yet announced his pick to succeed DeVos.In response to DeVos’ remarks Tuesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) — one of many lawmakers and activists Biden to use his authority to cancel student loan debt — sardonically, “Because we were all just dying to know what the unqualified billionaire who made this problem worse thinks about helping people.”This piece was reprinted by Truthout with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source.RelatedProgressive educators seeking to reverse neoliberal privatization cannot be certain they’ll have Biden’s backing.One school district nixed a proposed pilot with a Koch-backed microschool, but the model is spreading amid the pandemic.Turning schools into hotbeds of infection is in line with Betsy DeVos’s plan to undermine the public school system.Get daily news, in-depth reporting and critical analysis from the journalists, activists and thinkers who are working to improve our world..

SharePolitics &amp; ElectionsRacial JusticePolitics &amp; ElectionsEnvironment &amp; HealthPolitics &amp; ElectionsWar &amp; PeaceSen. Bernie Sanders late Tuesday called Betsy DeVos “the worst education secretary in the history of America” and made abundantly clear that he’s not mourning her imminent departure after the billionaire school privatization zealot lashed out at proposals to cancel student loan debt and make public colleges and universities tuition-free.“What do you call a billionaire who registered a $40 million, 164-foot yacht in the Cayman Islands to avoid $2.4 million in U.S....

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