{"id":3477,"date":"2020-07-10T07:46:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T11:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2020-07-10T07:46:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T11:46:04","slug":"betsy-devos-on-the-importance-of-individualism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3477","title":{"rendered":"Betsy DeVos on the Importance of Individualism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Betsy<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I feel the need to let you know \u2014 this cartoon was inspired by the first Betsy DeVos story this week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia have joined in a lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, accusing the Trump administration of trying to unlawfully divert pandemic relief funds from public schools to private schools.<\/em><\/p>

https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2020\/07\/07\/888793021\/states-sue-education-department-over-allocation-of-pandemic-funds-to-schools<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I completed it before I realized there was a second Betsy DeVos story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday assailed plans by some local districts to offer in-person instruction only a few days a week and said schools must be “fully operational” even amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/em><\/p>

https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/education\/2020\/07\/07\/betsy-devos-schools-full-time-coronavirus\/5392310002\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Now as I write this, I see there is a third Betsy DeVos story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf schools aren\u2019t going to reopen, we\u2019re not suggesting pulling funding from education but instead allowing families … (to) take that money and figure out where their kids can get educated if their schools are going to refuse to open,\u201d Betsy DeVos told Fox News in an interview.<\/em><\/p>

https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-usa-education\/us-families-could-use-federal-funds-elsewhere-if-pandemic-closes-schools-devos-says-idUSKBN24A25U<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But probably the best Betsy DeVos story this week wasn’t actually about her (but might as well have been):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The institute promoting the \u201claissez-faire capitalism\u201d of writer Ayn Rand, who in the novels \u201cAtlas Shrugged\u201d and \u201cThe Fountainhead\u201d introduced her philosophy of \u201cobjectivism\u201d to millions of readers, was approved for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan of up to $1 million, according to data released Monday by the Trump administration.<\/em><\/p>

https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-ppp-ayn-rand\/in-sign-of-the-times-ayn-rand-institute-approved-for-ppp-loan-idUSKBN248026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I apologize for not being able to keep up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel the need to let you know \u2014 this cartoon was inspired by the first Betsy DeVos story this week: Several Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia have joined in a lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, accusing the Trump administration of trying to unlawfully divert pandemic relief funds from public schools to private […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrewheller-com","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3479,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}