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On election night 2006, Dick DeVos, the bronzed, starched 51-year-old scion of Michigan’s wealthiest family, paced to a lectern in the dim ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel in Lansing to deliver the speech that every candidate dreads. The Michigan gubernatorial...

Click here for reuse options! North Carolina offers a harrowing preview of what American classrooms might look like under President Trump If the American Dream is still alive – the one that includes a good job and a house with a yard, kids, and a two...

Updated on January 20, 2017 President Trump’s first order of business after delivering his inaugural address Friday was to formally sign papers sending his Cabinet nominations to the Senate. In a small ceremony at the Capitol, Trump joked with congressional...

Perhaps guided by the old adage that you have to spend money to make money, the champions of education "reform" have poured billions into the effort to privatize and profit from America’s schools. Those funds are used on multiple fronts: launching charter...

Protesters try to block DeVos from visiting DC schools: Protesters on Friday blocked Education Secretry Betsy DeVos from entering two schools in Washington, D.C., on Friday, the latest sign of opposition to President Trump's most controversial Cabinet...