Sen. Scott Backs DeVos: A ‘Leader and a Doer’ Who Will Be ‘Our Champion for All Children’

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SCOTT: “I’ve know the DeVos family for about three decades. It was a part of one of the companies. I’m very thankful a champion of public education, education and specifically a champion of education for poor kids sits to my left. I will recall my own upbringing poor kid. I attended four different schools. It is important to realize the impact it has on poor kids. I’m excited about this transition, looking forward to the opportunity of having Betsy DeVos as our champion for all children, all education, but specifically what I call high potential kids. For the last 28 years, she has been a champion for those kids. A lifelong resident of Michigan, she attended Calvin college in Grand Rapids. She is a businesswoman and entrepreneur. She is a chairman of the American federation for children . For those of you who may not know her, she had a humble beginning. Her parents mortgaged everything they had to start a small auto-parts business. She still remembers when she was seven years old, helping her father paint a cinderblock building that became the office of the first manufacturing location."