When President Trump nominated Betsy DeVos, a woman with no degree or experience in education, as U.S. Secretary of Education, defenders of public education organized an unprecedented effort to fight her confirmation. Unfortunately, her stunning display of ignorance about education and the rights of public school students was not enough to stop the Senate from confirming her. But we now know who DeVos is and what her agenda is: advancing the privatization of public education under the guise of “choice.” She is a government official, accountable to the American people. We can call our elected officials when she fails to uphold the rights of all schoolchildren.
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