The former head of the Education Department is “keeping a close eye on the race.”
Betsy DeVos, who was in charge of the Education Department when Donald Trump was president, hasn’t decided who she will vote for in the race for the White House in 2024.
Nate Bailey, DeVos’ chief of staff, told Fox News Digital, “She’s paying close attention to the race, but she hasn’t decided who to back yet.” “She’s very happy to hear all of the candidates talk seriously about giving parents more control over their kids’ education and giving them more freedom in the classroom.”
DeVos was the 11th person to serve as the U.S. education secretary from 2017 to 2021. She was one of the few members of Trump’s Cabinet to keep her job the whole time he was president.
As secretary of education, the native of Michigan pushed for school choice, saying that parents should be able to use tax money for their child to go to a different school if the public school in their area doesn’t meet their needs.
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DeVos said that Trump’s 1776 Commission was a better choice than the 1619 Project, which isn’t true to history because it puts slavery at the beginning of American history.
But the 65-year-old former secretary of education has supported several other Republican prospects for 2024.
On May 31, DeVos and former Vice President Mike Pence discussed what Republicans think in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The DeVos family gave money to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s bids for governor. State campaign finance records show that in April 2022, DeVos gave $5,500 to a super PAC that supported DeSantis’ request to stay in office.
DeVos is still a powerful voice when it comes to American education. Her best-selling book, “Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child,” came out last year. It talks about critical race theory in education, COVID-19 pandemic school lockdowns, and how to fix America’s schools.
Before she became Trump’s education secretary, DeVos fought for school choice, private schools, and free speech on college campuses.
In 2003, she and her husband started All Children Matter to help with voucher programs. In 2010, she helped create the American Federation for Children, which supports kids’ right to choose their schools.
In 1989, DeVos and her husband started the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation, which gave money to private and Christian schools, groups that supported school choice, and different colleges and arts foundations.
