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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos decries federal role in education – Chicago Tribune

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MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. Betsy DeVos, the Michigan billionaire who serves as U.S. education secretary in the administration of President Donald Trump, decried the federal government’s role in schools in a speech to Republican activists on Mackinac Island on Saturday.

DeVos, speaking at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference at the Grand Hotel, said education policy has evolved around not the interests of children and students but those of teachers unions and other adult special interests. The results, she said, have been scandalous.

“Over the past 40 years the federal government alone has invested well over $1 trillion in K-12 education,” she said.

Despite that spending, the U.S. has made no progress in closing the student achievement gap with other countries and today ranks 24th in reading achievement, 25th in science and 40th in math.

“The only proposals are for more of the same more spending, more regulations, more government,” she said.

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