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Betsy DeVos has little to show after 2 years in office

  • Written by Dustin Hornbeck, Ph.D. Candidate in Educational Leadership and Policy, Miami University
Many of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' policy proposals have failed.Matt Rourke/AP

Despite widespread fear that U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would dismantle the public system of education, she has failed to accomplish much of what she set out to do.

That is my assessment as an educational policy researcher who has followed Secretary DeVos s...

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