{"id":115819,"date":"2017-02-07T14:15:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T20:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=115819"},"modified":"2017-02-07T14:15:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T20:15:43","slug":"senate-confirms-devos-education-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=115819","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms DeVos Education Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-115820\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DeVossTrump-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DeVossTrump-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DeVossTrump-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DeVossTrump-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DeVossTrump-175x175.jpg 175w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DeVossTrump.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Supporters of Betsy DeVos are hailing her confirmation Tuesday as Education secretary, saying it&#8217;s a chance to breathe new life into a troubled American school system &#8212; and a chance to shift power to the local level.<\/p>\n<p>But critics say they will keep making themselves heard on the importance of strong public education.<\/p>\n<p>DeVos has spent more than two decades promoting charter schools and publicly funded voucher programs for private schools in her home state of Michigan and in other states.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Mike Pence broke a 50-50 tie today as two Republicans voted with Democrats against confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska fear that DeVos&#8217; focus on charter schools will undermine remote public schools in their states.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Supporters of Betsy DeVos are hailing her confirmation Tuesday as Education secretary, saying it&#8217;s a chance to breathe new life into a troubled American school system &#8212; and a chance to shift power to the local level. But critics say they will keep making themselves heard on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115822,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115819\/revisions\/115822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}