Betsy DeVos Confirmed as Education Secretary

Well, education as a public good had a nice run. Not that it has been in particularly good shape in this country, but we have blueprints from other countries on how to improve it.<p>Instead we have a completely inexperienced person in control of $60bil+ because she paid off Congress. Seems par for the course these days.

I think the public school system in this country is terrible. Personally excited to see some radical changes and ready to give this a chance.<p>Too much bureaucracy, institutionalization, unionization and inertia going on. Extremely strange and inconsistent funding&#x2F;taxation patterns and complete lack of oversight or accountability has been the norm for 30+ years.

So there was some press this morning on the democratic filibuster... It is not clear to me why it didn&#x27;t last longer. Can anyone shed some light?

It&#x27;s good to be rich. Donate to a whole bunch of Senators, win a job despite having no qualifications for that role.

I&#x27;ve also noticed that most of my Facebook friends quickly forget that the guy their hero Obama appointed did a terrible job and the teachers unions demanded he resign, which he later did.<p>They won&#x27;t even give DeVos a chance, and most of them, it&#x27;s because Obama didn&#x27;t pick her.

Bad news for grizzly bears across America.

Let us pray.

devOS?

Glad to see this happening. The federal government needs to completely get out of education. A good first step would be to dismantle the Department of Education.