budgets of more affluent schools. the policy has its critics, including some republicans. tar it appears the education department is pushing to get it through before donald trump is sworn in. the woman chosen by the president-elect to take over the department of education is set to appear at her confirmation hearing this afternoon. betsy devos is seen by some as a controversial choice. critics are concerned about her lack of experience in public schools and her support for voucher and charter school programs. she has supported charter schools for a long time. charter public schools. in her opening public statement she ll give, she says if confirmed i ll be a strong advocate for great public schools. but if a school is troubled or unsafe or not a good fit for a child, we should support the parents right to enroll their child in a high quality alternative. joining me is a supporter of betsy devos. the founder and ceo of success academy charter schools and former new york city councilwom
agree it didn t be granted automatically and that what is the mayor is talking about, i spoke to a bunch of parents and i grew up in the public school system in new jersey and you in new york and they were saying how will we do it? judge who is is a good teacher and a bad teacher and, i think, everybody knows. even the school system, your area, in your school, everybody knows. even the teachers know. martha: who the good and bad teachers are. and teachers know so-and-so is not doing a good job. and what we re saying, even the teacher may not be doing good jobs, we want to put supports in place to make sure the teacher is doing a good job, you don t want to throw them out, we want the raise the quality of teachers. martha: my fear is that, this movie brought a lot of attention to the issue, a ton of good, charter school programs and catholic school programs and things people are involved around, that are trying make a change and once the spotlight is gone and once everybody has seen