Miseducated Devos, White House to support HBCUs wrongfully connecting them to controversial school choice agenda (READ STATEMENT)
"HBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice." Betsy Devos, U.S. Sec. of Education The highest education official in the land apparently needs to take a black history course. On this final day of Black History Month, Twitter is in an uproar over Sec. Of Eucation Betsy Devos' lack of knowledge and alternative facts shared in a statement. For the record, black schools in general were formed as a direct result of racial discrimination and segregation of the times. African Americans had no choice pertaining to access to education in America. In fact, a slave learning to read was a life risking act. By law the Supreme Court ruled for the constitutionality of separate but equal schools in the Plessy VS Ferguson case in 1869. The road to equal access to education was long. It was not until 1954 that the case of Brown VS the Board of Education overturned Plessy, a case burgeoned by Attorney Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first Afric...