Who Should Be In Charge of the U.S. Department of Education and Why?

Many parents have been tweeting to President Donald Trump to withdraw his support for charter school champion Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education and to propose a different kind of nominee for the U.S. Department of Education. The problem for these parents is not that both DeVos and the nominee for Deputy Secretary of Education, Allan Hubbard, have long promoted Common Core's so-called standards — which responsible parents don't want. The problem is that the U.S. Department of Education curre

Many parents have been tweeting to President Donald Trump to withdraw his support for charter school champion Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education and to propose a different kind of nominee for the U.S. Department of Education. The problem for these parents is not that both DeVos and the nominee for Deputy Secretary of Education, Allan Hubbard, have long promoted Common Core's so-called standards — which responsible parents don't want. The problem is that the U.S. Department of Education curre…