Betsy DeVos 
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SOURCE: New Republic
1/28/19
Betsy DeVos Is Fabricating History to Sell a Bad Education Policy
What the education secretary gets wrong about workforce training in public schools
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SOURCE: NY Review of Books
6-5-17
Diane Ravitch warns that the Trump administration is demolishing American education
by Diane Ravitch
"The most devastating cuts are aimed at programs for public schools."
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6-4-17
Betsy DeVos Is Making the Same Argument Critics of Public Education Have Been Making for a Century
by David B. Parker
The argument? We can do away with “frills” like music classes.
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SOURCE: New Republic
5-23-17
Diane Ravitch says the Democrats paved the way for the education secretary's efforts to privatize our public schools
by Diane Ravitch
"The Democratic Party has lost its way on public education."
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SOURCE: Slate
2-28-17
Betsy DeVos Press Release Celebrates Jim Crow Education System as Pioneer of “School Choice”
She praised historically black colleges – which were formed after white colleges blocked blacks from attending – as a positive example of school choice.
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