New Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's first days in office have been a little rocky. First, she was blocked from entering a Washington, D.C. public schoolby protesters. A couple weeks later, she called historically black colleges and universities "real pioneers" of school choice—before critics pointed out these schools were created for students shut out of other schools by segregation.
Paul Reville, former state secretary of Education and professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, said these moments might be a natural byproduct of nominating someone for the job without any conventional teaching experience.
"That will be helpful to the Trump Administration in moving an agenda, but she's going to have a big hand in shaping what that agenda will be. There's a reason to believe there will be a lot of disagreement even among Republicans about what the school choice agenda ought to be," he continued.
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