If Betsy DeVos Paid Taxes on Her Yacht, 250,000 Michigan Students Could Get a School Nurse

The taxes on the Seaquest, just one of the DeVos family’s 10 yachts, would bring more than $2 million a year to Michigan.

MICHIGAN — Health professionals in schools are more needed than ever during the pandemic. But Michigan school nurses each serve an average of well over 6,000 students.

Schools have been critically underfunded for decades, explained East China School District teacher Kimberly Eberhard. And that underfunding has had consequences in preparing for the pandemic.

“Education has been neglected for decades and now everyone will discover how bad it has been,” said Eberhard.

And school nurses are one of those underfunded areas. That has something to do with the priorities of America’s chief education official.

Source: If Betsy DeVos Paid Taxes on Her Yacht, 250,000 Michigan Students Could Get a School Nurse