Unable to attend the discussion, the high school journalists in Lexington, Ky., penned an editorial condemning the education secretary, writing, 'We are student journalists who wanted to cover an event in our community featuring the Secretary of Education, but ironically, we couldn’t get in without an invitation.'
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, left, speaks with Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin before a roundtable discussion on school choice efforts in the state, Wednesday, April 17, 2019, at Bluegrass Community and Technical College in Lexington, Ky. Journalists at a nearby high school say they were shut out of the conversation. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K. Email Bio Follow April 22 at 4:39 AM The students were on deadline, and they were on a mission.
They would never get it. They were shut out of the roundtable, advertised as an “open press event,” because they had not sent in an RSVP to an invitation they had never received and didn’t realize was required.Unable to document the event, or query DeVos in person, they set about investigating the circumstances of her private appearance at the public community college.
They wondered why there had been so little advance notice of the discussion, which focused on school “freedom” scholarships that would allow public funds to be used to send children to private and religious schools, even those that discriminate against LGBT students. DeVos, whose prior expertise in education policy was limited to steering her personal wealth to the cause of school choice, is seeking $5 billion for the program.
Aides to the governor, who has been an eager partner of DeVos in her effort to expand school choice, didn’t immediately return a request for comment. When they arrived at Bluegrass Community and Technical College, however, they encountered a man with the college’s badge on his blazer. One of the paper’s editors-in-chief, Abigail Wheatley, told him, “We’re here for Matt Bevin and Betsy Devos’s roundtable discussion.”They showed him their school identification and their press credentials, but he wasn’t satisfied. He asked to see their invitation.The man waved them away.
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