New U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos faces an uphill battle to sell her voucher-heavy, uber-market brand of school choice to an American public that’s choice-friendly, but voucher-skeptical. Which makes it hard to fathom why she would choose to throw stones at a city that sits atop the school choice mountain. DeVos spoke this week at a Brookings Institute event that…
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This Fifth-Grade Teacher Has Some Questions for Betsy DeVos
By Caroline Corcoran Despite my middling efforts, I was not invited to question Betsy DeVos ahead of her confirmation hearing as secretary of education—it certainly would have been nice to be invited. Alas, the hearing was on a school day, so even if I had been invited I would have had to say no. As a fifth-grade teacher in an urban…