Even champions of charters, like the philanthropist Eli Broad and the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association, opposed her nomination. In Ms. DeVos, the decades-long struggle to improve public education gains no visionary leadership and no fresh ideas. Her appointment squanders an opportunity to advance public education research, experimentation and standards, to objectively compare traditional public school, charter school and voucher models in search of better options for public school students. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyIn her Senate hearing, Ms. DeVos appeared largely ignorant of challenges facing college students, as well. They couldn’t afford to have a billionaire hostile to government run public schools that already underperform the rest of the developed world.

Source: New York Times February 08, 2017 01:41 UTC