From WSJopinion: Betsy DeVos is on a mission to rescue teachers unions’ “hostages.” In an interview, the former education secretary says she thinks the pandemic was an inflection point, writes jasonrileywsj
Wonder Land: Despite repeated cries of threats to"our democracy," a political fix for November won’t repair the damage progressives have done to the U.S. Images: Getty Images/MG21/The Met Museum/Vogue Composite: Mark KellyThe philanthropist and veteran school-reform advocate who served as education secretary under President Trump says the Covid pandemic was an inflection point.
That “system” is the subject of Mrs. DeVos’s new book, “Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child.” The title is taken from Horace Mann, the 19th-century politician and educator who is widely credited with founding the public-school apparatus. “We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education,” Mann once wrote, “are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
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