Summary - The new Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, said that she would be fine if they got rid of the government education department completely. She has said previously that she thinks school shouldn't be run by the government, on by private and charter institutions. She also said that the only reason why government would need to intervene with school would be like when there was segregation in schools or sexism in sports. Despite statistics showing there has been an increasing amount of segregation by race in class, she said there was nothing like that today that the government should help with. she did say that the government should help with protecting the rights of disabled students.
Analysis - This article was probably written by someone against DeVos because it included counterpoints to her statements about how education isn't segregated. This article is important because we see how the education system obviously needs work and how the Us is falling behind most developed countries, and yet the government wants to just take their hands off completely and hand it over to private companies. While for most schools an education secretary against public schools would be bad, DeVos supports the arts and would thus support booker t so there is always another side to every person.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-02-17/betsy-devos-id-be-fine-if-we-could-ditch-the-education-department
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