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