US education secretary DeVos cancels Ontario visit
DeVos, who is known to be a proponent of private schools, was scheduled to visit Toronto on Thursday.
In a statement, the US Department of Education, said: "Due to last-minute scheduling issues that arose on both sides, Secretary DeVos’s study trip to Ontario has been postponed."
“Secretary DeVos looks forward to learning more about and highlighting the innovative and successful ways Ontario’s educational model is meeting the needs of students and families," the statement read.
DeVos' arrival news has, however, enraged the teachers' union as they said the US education secretary prefers the private schools over public ones.
Ontario Teachers' Federation president Chris Cowler said: "DeVos represents everything a public education advocate opposes."
"She should keep her backwards ideas out of Ontario,” Cowley added.
On the other hand, the New Democratic Party (NDP), at the legislature asked the government to not allow DeVos to visit the schools in the province.
Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario's president, Sam Hammond, told media: "Given her record of undermining her country’s public school system, I am struggling to understand why she is coming to Ontario.”
(Reporting by Suman Das)
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