Our next Secretary of Education has never set foot in a public school and has no background in education. What will this mean for those of us in the trenches?

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It looks like Trump has picked Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education. DeVos is privately educated and has spent her career in business and politics and has no background in education. As a young public school teacher I am terrified. Whenever I see people with "business" backgrounds put in charge of public education (district, state, or national level) - it seems that all they do is make life worse for students and teachers alike. I was a K-12 student during the Bush years but I remember my teachers worrying about their futures then. Am I right to be worried now?

Submitted November 23, 2016 at 11:43AM by smp501 http://ift.tt/2fRYsYA