A Case Study for Betsy DeVos's Educational Utopia [TheAtlantic.com]

Samantha Sangenito 2/3/174:00 AM

In a low-key interview in 2015, the Education Secretary-nominee and billionaire school-choice advocate Betsy DeVos laid out the game plan for the movement going forward.

It was a familiar playbook—charter schools, online schools, and blended learning—to which DeVos added something of her own: DeVos supports all of those things, she said, plus “any combination, or any kind of choice that hasn’t yet been thought of.” While DeVos has since said that she wouldn’t push for a federal voucher mandate, the case of Nevada’s universal voucher could provide a blueprint for states to do it anyway.

[For more of this story, written by Ian Whitaker, go to https://www.theatlantic.com/ed...gram-succeed/515436/]

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