Betsy DeVos: Nothing Presidents Barack Obama or George W. Bush did in education reform really worked

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos delivered her first speech of 2018 and flatly declared that school reform efforts under Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush had not worked — nor had any other reform effort by any education secretary. She also said the establishment of the Education Department by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 was essentially a “giant nod to union bosses.”

DeVos gave a keynote address at the American Enterprise Institute’s conference titled “Bush-Obama School Reform: Lessons Learned,” and then answered questions from Rick Hess, resident scholar and director of Education Policy Studies at the conservative think tank.

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