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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos held a conference in Raleigh on Monday to discuss the issue of school choice.

A DIFFERENCE IN THE ELECTION. WE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THAT COMING UP AT FIVE. >>> THE U.S. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION CAME TO RALEIGH FOR A DISCUSSION ON SCHOOL CHOICE. THE SCHOLARSHIP PROVIDES FAMILIES UP TO $4200 A YEAR TO ATTEND PRIVATE SCHOOL. CARES ACT FUNDING HAS RAISED THE INCOME LIMIT AND REMOVED A CAP FOR KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST GRADERS. >> I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIND MY PASSION IN GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. >> A SENIOR SAID SHE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY SHE HAS RECEIVED AT THE PRIVATE SCHOOL IF IT WASN'T FOR THE STATE OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP. >> IT HAS REALLY OPENED A BUNCH OF DOORS FOR ME. >> OSBORNE SHARED HER STORY WITH BETSY DEVOS AT A ROUNDTABLE  DISCUSSION AND RALEIGH. SECRETARY DEVOS CAME TO HEAR FROM STUDENTS  AND PARENTS ABOUT HOW THEY HAVE MET EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGES PRESENTED DURING THE PANDEMIC. THE PRESIDENT AND MANY MEMBERS OF HIS INNER CIRCLE ARE STRUGGLING WITH THE VIRUS. >> WE ARE CONTINUING TO DO THE WORK THAT WE ARE ALL HERE TO DO, AND I AM VERY THANKFUL TO BE ABLE TO BE HERE IN NORTH CAROLINA TODAY. >> PARENTS FOR EDUCATIONAL FREEDOM HOSTED THE EVENT. THEY ARE A NONPROFIT  THAT PROMOTES THE SCHOLARSHIP. CRITICS SAY THE PROGRAM ERODES THE SYSTEM BY SPENDING PUBLIC TAX DOLLARS ON PRIVATE EDUCATION. OSBORNE DOES NOT SEE IT THAT WAY. >> IS GIVING THE POSSIBILITY FOR A BETTER EDUCATION FOR ANYONE NO MATTER WHAT SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS THEY ARE. >> WITH THE CARES ACT, THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SCHOLARSHIPS WAS RAISED TO $72,000. SECRETARY DEVOS SAYS  IF LAWMAKERS CONSIDER AN ADDITIONAL PACKAGE, THEY WOULD PROVIDE EMERGENCY FUNDS FOR STUDENTS AT

DeVos holds conference to discuss school choice

Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos traveled to the Triangle on Wednesday in a push to encourage more K-12 schools to reopen with entirely in-person instruction.

TOGETHER VIRTUAL TELETHON IS AUGUST 12 FROM BAND TOGETHER VIRTUAL TELETHON IS AUGUST 12 FROM 7 TO 8 PM ON WRAL AND OTHER PLATFORMS. &gt;&gt;&gt; THE TRIANGLE HOSTED A VISIT FROM ONE OF THE NATIONS TOP LEADERS, VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE SPENT THE PAST FEW HOURS IN THE TRIANGLE AND WRAL WAS THERE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY FROM TOUCHDOWN TO WHEELS UP ABOUT 15 MINUTES AGO WHICH YOU SAW RIGHT HERE LIVE ON WRAL. KEELY ARTHUR JOINS OUR TEAM COVERAGE LIVE AT APEX WITH A LOOK INSIDE HIS FIRST STOP OF HIS VISIT. &gt;&gt;REPORTER: HE WAS HERE AT THALES ACADEMY AND THAT IS BECAUSE THIS SCHOOL IS BUCKING THE TREND IN TERMS OF EDUCATION IN THE STATE RIGHT NOW. THEY ARE OPEN FOR IN PERSON CLASSES AND VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE ONCE MORE SCHOOLS TO FOLLOW THAT LEAD. THE VICE PRESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION KICKING THINGS OFF WITH A TRIP TO MS. ALLISON COMBS FOURTH GRADE CLASSROOM QUICKLY ASKING THE STUDENTS WHAT THEY LIKED BEST ABOUT BEING BACK. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PART ABOUT BEING BACK IN SCHOOL? AND THEN LATER AT A ROUNDTABLE VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE AND BETSY DEVOS COMMITTED THE SCHOOL FOR REOPENING ON JULY 20.&gt;&gt; I AM HERE TO LISTEN AND LEARN FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE HERE AT THE FOREFRONT OF REOPENING A SCHOOL HERE IN AMERICA AND UNDERSTANDING HOW THALES ACADEMY IS DOING AND HOW NORTH CAROLINA'S MAKING IT HAPPEN.&gt;&gt; THERE ARE TOO MANY SCHOOLS IN THIS STATE AND OTHERS THAT ARE IGNORING PARENTS AND STUDENTS AND KEEPING SCHOOLS CLOSED. SPIRIT BETSY DEVOS EXPANDING ON THAT POINT TELLING THE ROUNDTABLE THAT IF SCHOOLS FAIL TO OPEN IN PERSON LEARNING SHE BELIEVES PARENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE THIS PUBLIC DOLLARS ASSIGNED TO THEIR CHILD AND USE THE MONEY TOWARDS A SCHOOL THAT IS OPEN IN PERSON. CONGRESSMAN RICHARD HUDSON THAT WAS AT THE ROUNDTABLE SAYS HE AGREES SPEAK I THINK THE SECRETARY IS RIGHT AND IF THE SCHOOLS ARE NOT OPENING APPEARS TO FEEL LIKE THEY WANT THEIR SCHOOLS THEY OUGHT TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT.&gt;&gt; OF COURSE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC

Pence: 'We've got to get our kids back to school'

Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visit with a fourth-grade class at Thales Academy in Apex.

you? Yeah, I said you have Children. Been a little nervous, and I said, This is a such a great opportunity. Thank you. I'll say word. Absolutely. Hi, everybody. And Vice President Mike Pence delighted to be here this fourth grade. How about a big round of applause for Mrs Combs? She I have been married to a schoolteacher for 35 years. Mrs. Pence actually teaches at an elementary school not far from Washington. D. C. So I know she want me to say hello. One of you. I also want introduce the Secretary of education for the United States. Secretary Betsy. She worked closely with me and with our president each every day to support great education across. We were excited to be able to be here with each and every one of you. Here you are back to school before, before I get, Let me say I was flying here on a plane. They call it Air Force two. I placed a call to playing called Air Force One. Does anybody know flies on Air Force One? Yes. The president give him around Cold Air Force One and told the president that I was headed to this grade school. Mrs. Columns class in North Carolina. He wanted me to say, Well, we're proud of you. We're proud to see you back in school. How great is it to be back in the classroom? Is it exciting? Yeah, Well, world world taking careful steps. Stay healthy and keep us around US. Health. This is Copes. How's it going? You back back in the classroom to leave. They now got bankable safety measures, keeping our distance. When you look a little funny walking in the lines now, right, we have a keyboard, we call Marzano hands up. So we're not touching our neighbors, but they've started learning going dollar classes, and I think we're all pretty happy, right? They got before you came. And I think they're a little nervous, But they had a huge eruption of cheer when asked if they were excited. We'll raise your hands if you're excited to be back in school. We're excited to see you back. In fact, we're working. We're working with schools all across the country, art with secretary to Boston to help states just like North Carolina. To be able to have resource is guys open up school safely again But being with all of you knowing your back classrooms exciting, did you want to say a quick word? I would love to greet all the students, ask you a couple of questions. What is it like to be back together? Heart So long? What's the best part of this? How about you? For better than a computer, right? I agree. Great. What? What a great question. E. I love this question. How about you over there with you to be back? That's very special. To be with your friends is apart. What makes tool special, but also Mrs Columns. It's It's also very important to learning process. It's one of the things that Mrs Pence has told me over the years is that students being together is important, completely agree? Someone said before they spent a lot of time crime turned virtual school, and I said, I think a lot of adults Teoh, I don't think you were alone on that one of her students. So we are very excited back and we're in Week two right now, getting into back to school and getting into routines and things like that really strong start. Would you agree? Boys and girls. Yeah. Great start. What's your favorite part about being back in school? The meeting that we had you get? You get more information by being with Mrs Columns. You feel then than being on the computer what you say It's easier to be in school when you're not alone on the computer at home. Time goes faster. Well, that's really great. We're all very, very proud of each and every one of you. It's a very challenging time. Back when you had to be learning from home, away from your friends. Now you're back in school. I promise you that. President Meyer, Secretary. We're all gonna continue to work to make sure this school schools all across the support open up in the state. Anybody got a question for me? Anything you're curious about could be about my job, my family, something. So people want to know what kind of whatever? You know, if I wasn't the vice president, what would I be? Well, I would tell you before. Vice President, I was governor in the state of Indiana. I served in the Congress before, but four years ago this month when President Trump called me and asked me to campaign with. I was actually governor of the state of it. I really loved that job. And so I think I can say that Still be governor of Indiana if I hadn't been given the great privilege that my family to service your vice president. So that's a fun question. Thank you very much. Thank you. How about you? Way back. Speak up. Where did you go to school? In. Where did you go to school? Do you want elementary school? For all of it? Well, I went to a private school, a private Catholic school when I was growing up all the way through eighth grade. And then I went to a public high school in a small town in Southern Columbus on. Then I went to college down the Ohio River in Southern India. Tickle college. I studied law at Indiana University. So So, like you, I've been in a private school part of the way public schools. I have to tell you some of the most important people in my life. Teachers I still think about elementary school teachers that help shape my life. They believed in me. They challenged me like Mrs Cole says they were also great. Encouraged to go a little. My dreams. How about How about one more question right over here? What's your name? Spencer. I'm skill on a scale of 1 to 10. How do I like being vice person in the United States? I say in 11. You have to understand. My my grandfather immigrated to this country from Ireland about my son's age, was in his twenties. He drove a bus for 40 years in Chicago, Illinois. Mom and Dad built a small businesses for me to have the privilege to served in the Congress of the United States to service Governor of Indiana. Service is your vice presidents. Greatest privilege. Just shows you what a great country this is. I hope all of you already figured out. Yeah. What makes America special is that anybody can be anybody. If you study hard, you work hard. Stay away from things that derail your dreams like drugs, alcohol. You make the right decisions in your life. Sky's the limit. Dream big dreams and you go. But it all starts right here. Listen to your parents. Listen to your teachers. You're and you can live those dreams. Okay? I know what I'm talking about. Listen, we're gonna go downstairs a little round table. You all have just been wonderful. Thank you for such a warm welcome. I hope you have a great year. Study hard. Sky's the limit. Okay, give a roller coaster here to say thank you.

Pence, DeVos visit with Apex fourth-graders

Air Force Two lands at Raleigh-Durham International Airport as Vice President Mike Pence visits the Triangle to promote schools reopening during the coronavirus pandemic and vaccine development.

at Raleigh Durham International Airport. Well, both three. Just a couple of minutes behind schedule. And the vice president is now on the ground waiting for him to get in again. That stuff will be Families Academy in Apex. He will spend about an hour award 1/2 at that private school in Apex before moving over to NC Biotech, where he will meet with the team at Wake Research. That is in the process of those phase three clinical trials for Moderna, which is that vaccine candidate that entered the stage three clinical trials this week. I'll send it back to you guys as we wait for airports to to come back into our frame. No, I can't see it behind that plane. Yeah. Feel taxi back! Go back! He's got a taxi back. Can you hear me? He went behind that point. No, nobody could. Yeah, nobody could see it. He's gonna go to runway in a taxi. Oh, that somewhere, Theoretically. Attacking vacuum. You hear it?

Air Force Two lands at RDU

Air Force Two landing at RDU

Pence, DeVos visit Triangle in push for schools to reopen

Numerous posts circulating on social media websites claim Education Secretary Betsy DeVos downplayed the risk of reopening schools by saying  "only" .02% of children are likely to die from COVID-19 when they return to school. But Politifact found no record of DeVos making this comment, or anything close to it, in her numerous recent interviews and public appearances. 


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