Thanks to all your efforts, the committee vote on DeVos was delayed a week to give senators more time to dig through her mountains of ethics paperwork. This gives us another week to contact our senators’ offices and tell them to oppose her confirmation.

This guide, excerpted from a publication by the American Federation of Teachers, was created for educators, school support staff and service providers.

"If the Board of Education has a goal of 'balancing the budget while minimizing classroom disruptions,' you are not going to achieve that by demoralizing our teachers and driving them out of the district."

In an op-ed just published for Education Week, CTU President Karen Lewis discusses the striking similarities between Chicago’s mayor and Betsy DeVos, the nominee for U.S. Secretary of Education.

“DeVos is not an educator, researcher or policymaker. Her only qualification is her extraordinary wealth, which she has used to buy influence in her home state of Michigan and fund a private takeover of public education.”