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Betsy DeVos
National
Dozens of school districts applied to an Obama-era integration program before Trump officials axed it. Since then, many plans have gone nowhere.
By Kalyn Belsha
December 2, 2019
Pasadena, California high school National
Here’s what 17 school districts said they’d do with federal funding for school integration.
By Kalyn Belsha
Updated December 3, 2019
Colorado
Final-hour union-backed Denver school board mailers evoke Trump, DeVos, and teacher strike
By Eric Gorski, Erica Meltzer
November 2, 2019

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National
DeVos uses disappointing national test scores to criticize federal involvement in education, push ‘education freedom’
By Matt Barnum
October 30, 2019
Detroit
Betsy DeVos claims victory for choice in her first Detroit school visit since getting the top education job
By Koby Levin
September 20, 2019
National
Betsy DeVos says schools are strapped for cash because of well-paid bureaucrats. Here’s why that’s misleading.
By Matt Barnum
September 19, 2019
Devos at Purdue Polytechnic Indiana
Back for more: DeVos returns to Indianapolis for a repeat visit to an innovation school
By Emma Kate Fittes
September 17, 2019
Tennessee
A renewed debate in Tennessee: Should schools be judged by how much students know, or how much they grow?
By Marta W. Aldrich
September 10, 2019
Indiana
Betsy DeVos visited a ‘model’ coding program for Indiana incarcerated youth. Here’s why.
By Emma Kate Fittes
August 14, 2019
National
How the National Teacher of the Year offers history lessons plus ‘love and care and comfort’
By Matt Barnum
May 15, 2019
National
D.C. voucher students don’t see test score gains, but are less likely to be frequently absent, latest research shows
By Matt Barnum
May 15, 2019
Detroit
Betsy DeVos: Michigan doesn’t have enough school choice
By Koby Levin
May 6, 2019
National
Betsy DeVos’s explanation for negative voucher results: Program was ‘not very well conceived’
By Matt Barnum
May 6, 2019
Tennessee
Betsy DeVos praises Tennessee’s voucher program, but won’t say whether undocumented immigrants should be excluded
By Caroline Bauman
May 6, 2019
Chicago
Three things Betsy DeVos said in Chicago — and one big topic she didn’t address
By Cassie Walker Burke
May 3, 2019