California educators at CTA's State Council meeting on January 28 called for the senate to reject Betsy DeVos at upcoming confirmation hearing and also passed a resolution demanding safe schools for all.

“What I know about for-profit companies in my school has me deeply concerned about what Betsy DeVos will mean for my students,” said Sarah Vigrass, a fourth and fifth grade teacher from Riverside, California.

In a sign of rising resistance to federal threats to public schools,

We need an experienced, qualified Secretary of Education who actually wants to strengthen and improve all public schools.