President-elect Donald Trump named Betsy DeVos as his nominee for education secretary. (Sarah Parnass,Osman Malik/The Washington Post)President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would nominate Betsy DeVos, a billionaire philanthropist with deep ties to the Christian Reformed community in Michigan, as his education secretary. [Trump picks billionaire Betsy DeVos, school voucher advocate, as education secretary]She is daughter of Edgar Prince, the founder of Prince Corp., an automobile parts supplier based in Holland, Mich. When her children were school-age, she visited the Potter’s House Christian School in Grand Rapids. “It’s been a long-standing goal of the Religious Right to replace public education with Christian education,” she said.

Source: Washington Post November 23, 2016 22:00 UTC