AlterNet: Trump’s Pick for Education Secretary Refuses to Disavow Teaching Intelligent Design in Public Schools
DeVos has advanced faith-based education while at the helm of the corporate education reform movement. As former chair of the Michigan Republican Party, DeVos pressed for a failed ballot initiative in 2000 to amend the state constitution to allow students to use taxpayer dollars to attend nonpublic schools. She has long headed the American Federation for Children, describedby Rachel Tabachnick of Political Research Associates as “the umbrella organization for two nonprofits that have been at the center of the pro-privatization movement for over a decade. In addition to the renamed Advocates for School Choice, it includes the Alliance for School Choice, formerly known as the Education Reform Council.”