{"id":22272,"date":"2017-02-15T07:26:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=22272"},"modified":"2017-02-15T07:26:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:26:39","slug":"trump-praises-devos-pledges-expand-school-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/trump-praises-devos-pledges-expand-school-choice.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump praises DeVos, pledges to expand school choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Trump praises DeVos, pledges to expand school choice<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Trump praises DeVos, pledges to expand school choice:- President Trump took a victory lap with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday, saying her confirmation after &ldquo;a very unfair trial&rdquo; in the Senate will benefit students nationwide by expanding school choice.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&ldquo;I want to congratulate you on having gone through a very tough trial, and a very unfair trial, and you won,&rdquo; the president told Mrs. DeVos during a White House meeting. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s something very nice about that. The real winner will be the children &hellip; of this country.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The Senate confirmed Mrs. DeVos, a school choice advocate, last week by a vote of 51-50, with Vice President Mike Pence providing the historic tie-breaking vote. Democrats and teachers&rsquo; unions were vehemently opposed to her nomination.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Mrs. DeVos noted that the attendees at the White House meeting represented &ldquo;traditional public schools, charter public schools, home schools, private schools &mdash; a range of choices.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&ldquo;We&rsquo;re eager to listen and learn from you, your ideas for how we can ensure that all of our kids have an equal opportunity for a high quality, great education,&rdquo; she told them.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The president said his administration will expand educational opportunities, especially for minority students.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Source:-&nbsp;http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/feb\/14\/trump-praises-devos-pledges-expand-school-choice\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/trump-praises-devos-pledges-expand-school-choice.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump praises DeVos, pledges to expand school choice Trump praises DeVos, pledges to expand school choice:- President Trump took a victory lap with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday, saying her confirmation after &ldquo;a very unfair trial&rdquo; in the Senate will benefit students nationwide by expanding school choice. &ldquo;I want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[11668,13723,11670,3442],"class_list":["post-22272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-daily-breaking-news-usa","tag-trump-praises-devos-pledges-to-expand-school-choice","tag-us-breaking-news-today-live","tag-usa-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}