In her recent op-ed, Kay McSpadden characterizes Betsy DeVos, the president-elect's pick for U.S. Secretary of Education, as unfit and inexperienced. To buttress her view, McSpadden invokes a recent column by Stephen Henderson of the Detroit Free Press, in which he states that DeVos has “no relevant credentials or experience” to lead our nation's public schools.
In fact, DeVos's experience is enormously relevant and has enabled her to impact the lives of thousands of children in her home state of Michigan and across the nation. McSpadden and Henderson object to DeVos's commitment to parental school choice, yet Henderson sends his children to public charter schools in Detroit. These innovative public schools would not be available to Henderson's family were it not for the pivotal advocacy work of DeVos.
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