The education news this week is all DeVos, all the time. Good enough but I’d like to hear a lot more about her than how much she likes vouchers. For instance her views on LGBT students, what she thinks about accountability for all schools, and her ideas on the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education. I take a look at five questions in U.S. News & World Report:
Hearings are planned this week on President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of philanthropist and activist Betsy DeVos to be the next secretary of education. The usual suspects are lining up to unflinchingly support or oppose her nomination – even as many can’t even pronounce her name.
For the education establishment, DeVos’ support for school vouchers ranks her among history’s greatest monsters. School choice supporters seem to have forgotten that the Department of Education has responsibilities beyond just school choice. And from the press you’d think she’s the first cabinet nominee ever to have made political donations.
Yet even if you’re someone who thinks a president should get wide latitude on his or her nominees, it’s never a bad idea to ask some questions – especially of someone like DeVos, who has a thin public record and has never held a job like this.
Here are five that will be squarely in her wheelhouse and matter more than just how much DeVos likes school vouchers, where her kids went to school or who her brother is…
You can read all five right here. And tell me on Twitter what would you like to ask her?
