{"id":311701,"date":"2017-06-07T12:37:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T11:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-new-york-times-uses-diversity-to-find-common-ground-with-education-secretary-betsy-devos\/"},"modified":"2017-06-07T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T11:37:39","slug":"the-new-york-times-uses-diversity-to-find-common-ground-with-education-secretary-betsy-devos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-new-york-times-uses-diversity-to-find-common-ground-with-education-secretary-betsy-devos\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times uses \u201cdiversity\u201d to find common ground with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>The New York Times uses \u201cdiversity\u201d to find common ground with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Nancy Hanover<br \/>\n    <br \/>7 June 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In a news article on Friday, June 2, the <em>New<\/em> <em>York Times<\/em> makes the jarring claim that US Secretary Betsy DeVos\u2019 appointees are a \u201cstark departure from her reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The leading publication of the liberal establishment suggests that the common perception that DeVos is \u201can out-of-touch, evangelical billionaire without the desire or capacity to protect vulnerable poor, black, immigrant, gay or transgender students\u201d needs to be re-thought.<\/p>\n<p>The article does not trouble itself to comment, even in a superficial way, on DeVos\u2019 lifelong commitment to the destruction of public education, her promotion and protection of the charter and cybercharter industry, or her pledge to enact Trump\u2019s $20 billion school voucher plan. No mention is made of her support to the Acton Institute, which has advocated child labor, her hostility to the rights of special education children or her oft-stated belief that education is more properly administered by the church than under public education and secular laws.<\/p>\n<p>No, it is not because of policy issues that writer Erica L. Green and the <em>Times<\/em> suddenly seem to find DeVos \u201cin touch.\u201d Instead, it has come to their attention that DeVos has hired a \u201csexual assault survivor\u201d and gay woman, a \u201cprogressive Democrat who believes a broken education system is a form of white supremacy\u201d and a second-generation Cuban man. Green draws the lesson that DeVos critics should hereafter \u201cfocus more on her actions than their preconceptions.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageLeft\" style=\"width:200px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/c640219d-262d-4c60-a918-8c1dcc8ac5dO\/image.jpg?rendition=image240\" style=\"width:200px;\" \/><span>Betsy DeVos (Attribution: Gage Skidmore)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> cites Michael J. Petrilli, the president of the pro-charter think tank Thomas B. Fordham Institute [funded by school&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/06\/07\/nyta-j07.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The New York Times uses \u201cdiversity\u201d to find common ground with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos By Nancy Hanover 7 June 2017 In a news article on Friday, June 2, the New York Times makes the jarring claim that US Secretary Betsy DeVos\u2019 appointees are a \u201cstark departure from her reputation.\u201d The leading publication of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-311701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}