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Betsy DeVos Harms Higher Ed More Than K-12 in 2017

The big surprise at the end of 2017 is that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been arguably worse for higher education than she has been for K-12, which is not what most experts predicted when she took the job. While protestors have dogged DeVos across the...

Republican Tax Plan Opens Back Door To School Vouchers

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos insists her lifelong support for school vouchers and other forms of school privatization will not lead the Trump administration to "mandate" these "school choice" policies. Nonetheless, her Republican friends in Congress have just...

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