LANSING, Mich. — The head of a school of choice lobbying group founded by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has resigned after making a remark about domestic violence during a Senate committee hearing.
Gary Naeyaert was the executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project.
During a Senate Education Committee hearing last week, Naeyaert made the comments about Michigan School Reform Officer Natasha Baker.
“I wanted to shake her, like I like to shake my wife, when every option in front of you is not possible. They’re all equally unattractive to you. Like when I ask (my wife) where to go to dinner (and) she says anywhere. And I say Steak and Shake. And she says, ‘Well, not Steak and Shake,” Naeyaert testified.
Sunday, he publicly apologized in a Facebook post for using what he called a “poorly-worded ad-lib and bad analogy” of options for fixing failing schools.
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