Caroline Carter-Betsy DeVos's first year in office

As of today, Betsy DeVos has officially completed her first year as education secretary. Over the course of the year, she certainly has made changes to the American school system, most of which involved rescinding changes made by the Obama administration, which conservatives viewed as unnecessary, including measures taken to reduce sexual assaults on university campuses in particular. DeVos has also removed Obama-era guidance toward protecting transgender rights in public schools. Proposals toward ensuring gains for for-profit colleges have been made this year. Since Trump took office, a department dealing with student loan fraud and helping victims clear their debt has not reviewed a single case from these students. Despite these changes, DeVos has not made much progress toward her original goal: more school choice. However, due to a recent savings plan change, more money is being allotted for K-12 private school funding.

As a public school student, many of DeVos's policies affect me and my peers. For example, some of her visions for public school education involve the teaching of intelligent design in schools, which alienates some students who are agnostic or follow a religion that does not believe in the universe in that sense. There is also a chance that DeVos only holds this position because of her family's wealth and donations to the Republican party over the years, which reminds me of the Jacksonian spoils system and Gilded Age cronyism. As we have seen in our study of these periods, political malpractice does not generally lead to American euphoria and as we are seeing right now, there is nothing euphoric about the state of this country.

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/02/10/584342562/devos-at-the-one-year-mark-black-lives-matter-in-schools-zero-tolerance