Kieryn and Eve discuss Devos' history and relationship to HSLDA to begin understanding what her recent attack on public education means and why HSLDA isn't fighting against the free government money they are notorious for hating. Hint: It's not good.

Show Notes:

Fact Sheet on the Devos Plan https://www.ncpecoalition.org/trump-voucher-plan

Kushner's COVID plan https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-kushners-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air

True Believer https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060505912

Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_DeVos

HSLDA finds an Ally in Devos https://onenewsnow.com/education/2017/05/28/devos-championing-homeschool-freedom-whslda

Devos is de-funding the public schools by giving that money to parents instead https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/betsy-devos-coronavirus-private-schools/2020/06/15/0c484d94-a50b-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html

Things we didn't even get to:

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/influential-conservative-group-trump-devos-should-dismantle-education-department-and-bring-god-into-classrooms/2017/02/15/196bf872-f2df-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebekahbastian/2020/07/19/how-educational-inequality-in-america-could-be-impacted-by-the-homeschooling-pod-frenzy/

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/parents-working-from-home-want-more-support-for-home-schooling

• https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/if-schools-dont-open-the-funding-should-go-to-the-parents-trump-says.html