Jared Kushner's Rise to Unimaginable Power

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Is it true that this clown had such bad grades when in school that he wasn't accepted by any mjor university until his parents made a huge donation to a top school (I can't remember what school he went to and I'm on a mobile device and I'm not going to waste any battery googling him).

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From Wikipedia

According to journalist Daniel Golden, Kushner and his brother Joshua were admitted to Harvard after their father had made a $2.5 million donation to the university.

In 2003, Kushner graduated cum laude from Harvard College with an B.A. in sociology.

In 2007, Kushner graduated from New York University where he earned a J.D. and M.B.A.; his father had previously made a $3 million donation to NYU in 2001.

Thanks.  This is what I was looking for.

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Jared Kushner was a person supportive of Mitt Romney, James Mattis, and Michelle Rhee. His political ideology is unknown but appears to be moderate - somewhere along the lines of Mattie and Zinke.

Rhee and Mattis are not exactly moderates in their respective fields of expertise.

Jared Kushner was a person supportive of Mitt Romney, James Mattis, and Michelle Rhee. His political ideology is unknown but appears to be moderate - somewhere along the lines of Mattie and Zinke.

In all seriousness, is there a huge difference between Rhee and DeVos on charter policy? Or would both be equally controversial with teacher unions

There isn't much difference. DeVos was a big donor to Rhee's school initiatives, and ideologically they are basically the same on education, with the only significant exception I can see that DeVos has in the past been more focused on promoting religious private education, which Rhee doesn't care about. Choosing Rhee would have been smart politically because Rhee is connected to a number of high-profile Democrats (and also a registered Democrat herself) and thus difficult to oppose, but her positions on charter schools, teachers' unions, standardized testing, etc. are quite on the extreme of even the school reform movement. In any case, I doubt the Democrats want to burn political capital fighting about the education secretary when the alternatives are not much better anyway.

Obviously both would be hated by teachers' unions, but that's true of any hypothetical appointment by any Republican president at this point. Rhee would probably have incited even more vitriol because she is a more known figure in education circles, while DeVos has in the past mostly been a behind-the-scenes actor. The real question should be how the potential choices are received by school reform moderates, who dislike the unions but also dislike the extremism of Rhee and DeVos.

Hmmm that's interesting.  I didn't know that about Rhee.  Why didn't he pick her then to look bi-partisan (lol)?