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1. www.npr.org › 2020/11/19 › 936225974The Legacy Of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos : NPR

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   Nov 19, 2020 · In the early days of the pandemic, DeVos did waive federal testing requirements for K-12 schools and worked with Congress to suspend payments on federal student loans and temporarily drop interest ...

2. www.edweek.org › policy-politics › how-betsy-devosHow Betsy DeVos Bent the Nation’s Education Debate in Four ...

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   Dec 14, 2020 · Two Republicans, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, voted against DeVos, leading to a 50-50 result in the Senate. Vice President Mike Pence broke the tie in DeVos ...

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   Did DeVos have any experience in public education?

   • Unlike her predecessors, DeVos had no relevant experience in public education. She was never a governor or state legislator like Lamar Alexander, or a legal scholar of education like Shirley Hufstedler, a K-12 teacher and school administrator like Terrel H. Bell or a university professor like William Bennett.

   Through her divisive rhetoric, Education Secretary DeVos leaves a

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   How has DeVos Impacted Schools?

   • DeVos made a more lasting impact on how schools must respond to incidents of sexual assault and harassment by writing new regulations around Title IX "aimed at beefing up protections for accused college students," as NPR's Tovia Smith wrote earlier this year.

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   Did DeVos create rifts in education politics?

   • “Support for education freedom cuts across political, racial, and economic lines—the American public is demanding options for their kids, and naysayers in Washington need to catch up.” To some extent, DeVos intensified and did not create rifts in education politics.

   How Betsy DeVos Bent the Nation’s Education Debate in Four Tense Ye…

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   Why did DeVos stand out?

   • In short, DeVos stood out because she embraced the role of privatization advocate – a role she never relinquished. She made no pretense about this advocacy. For her, all that’s required for schooling to be considered “ public education ” is public funding and use by the public, meaning that private schools can provide “public” education.

   Through her divisive rhetoric, Education Secretary DeVos leaves a

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4. www.edweek.org › leadership › 2010-to-now-a2010 to Now: A Turbulent Decade for Schools - Education Week

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   Dec 18, 2019 · Common Core. School shootings. ESSA. Betsy DeVos. The past 10 years have been a whirlwind of policy upheaval, tragedy, and change for K-12 education. Here’s 10 highlights—and a bonus.

5. www.chalkbeat.org › 2020/11/9 › 21557678Betsy DeVos is on her way out. What will her legacy be?

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   Nov 10, 2020 · DeVos has made an impact at the helm of the education department. She axed Obama-era guidelines for schools that provided protections for transgender students, among other changes, arguing for a ...

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7. theconversation.com › through-her-divisiveThrough her divisive rhetoric, Education Secretary DeVos ...

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   Jan 12, 2021 · In her resignation letter, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos explained that her sudden departure from the administration was motivated by President Donald Trump’s incendiary words to the crowd ...

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8. theconversation.com › devos-and-the-limits-of-theDeVos and the limits of the education reform movement

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   Mar 12, 2018 · Published: March 12, 2018 1:51pm EDT. Betsy DeVos exposed the education reform movement’s pitfalls in her highest-profile media appearance to date. President Donald Trump’s education secretary ...

9. wskg.org › npr-news › 2020/11/19How Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Will Be Remembered - WSKG

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   Nov 19, 2020 · What to make of the tenure of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos depends, like beauty itself, on the eye of the beholder. To the president who asked her to run the Department of Education, she was a loyal lieutenant who argued for her department's irrelevance in a nation where control of schools is a local affair — that is, until she argued the opposite, at the president's urging, and ...