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Trump Claims Arizona Audit Uncovered Widespread Math

“It’s unfair and, quite frankly, a disgrace,” the former President said.
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Betsy DeVos Says Twelve Days Remaining Are Three Weeks Too Many

Trump’s Education Secretary said that she took out paper and pencil to figure out “just how many weeks twelve days really is. It was basic geometry.”
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Betsy DeVos Warns That Biden Will Pick Education Secretary with Background in Education

“For the past four years, I have worked tirelessly to keep our schools free from education,” she said.
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Betsy DeVos Promises to Protect Children from Education

DeVos said parents were concerned that, if their children return to school in the fall, they might be exposed to learning. “That will not happen on my watch,” she promised.
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How Concerning Are the Trump Administration’s New Title IX Regulations?

The regulations, issued by the Department of Education earlier this month, free schools to do some things that previously were prohibited or understood to be disfavored.
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Nation’s Parents Fear That if Kids Miss Enough School They Will Turn Out Like Betsy DeVos

Parents panicked at the prospect of their school-deprived children becoming as ignorant as the nation’s Education Secretary.
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Betsy DeVos Says She Was Planning to Close All Schools Anyway

The Secretary of Education said that, within days of taking office, she had drawn up an ambitious plan called No School Left Open.
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Trump Names Lori Loughlin Education Secretary

Trump praised Loughlin for her “disruptive approach” to college admissions and expressed hope that she could bring the same brand of innovative thinking to the Department of Education.
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Betsy DeVos Suggests That Bribing Colleges Helps Students Learn Math

“Let’s say Jenna has a 470 verbal score, but she needs a 730 to get into Yale,” DeVos said. “How much will she have to pay to get her score changed?”
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Assessing Betsy DeVos’s Proposed Rules on Title IX and Sexual Assault

There is much to criticize in the Secretary of Education’s suggested regulations, but also much that would help make schools’ handling of misconduct fairer to all parties.
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Betsy DeVos Calls “60 Minutes” a Waste of a Half Hour

“If I had to answer every question she had about schools, I would have had to bone up on education for a month.”
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Trump Knocked Out in First Round of White House I.Q. Test Tournament After Losing to Betsy DeVos

“He had forgotten there was a spelling section,” a source said.
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DeVos Defends Trump: “Would a Moron Hire Me?”

“My intelligence can be very intimidating,” DeVos said. “And if Donald Trump was a moron, he would not want to be around people who are intelligenter than him.”
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Betsy DeVos Says She Did Math on Trump’s Tax Plan and It Will Save Nation Eleventy Krillion

“The exact number was between eleventy and ninety-quelve, but I rounded down to eleventy,” the Secretary of Education said.
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Controversy Over Confederate Statues Inspires Betsy DeVos to Google Civil War

DeVos said that she was glad that she Googled the Civil War, calling it “an extremely fascinating chapter in American history that people need to find out about.”
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Betsy DeVos Heads to North Korea to Reverse Its Progress in Math and Science

The Education Secretary plans to replace Pyongyang’s current system of training scientists with a dizzying array of vouchers, sources said.
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Betsy DeVos Says Media Shouldn’t Emphasize First Hundred Days Because “It’s So Hard to Count to a Hundred”

“Who the heck can count all the way to a hundred?” DeVos said, adding that the media were “acting like we’re a bunch of math geniuses.”