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Aarthi Swaminathan & Reggie Wade
January 8, 2021, 3:07 AM
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, one of President Donald Trump’s original Cabinet members, resigned on Thursday evening after the president incited a mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6.
The resignation, effective Friday, brings an end to one of the most contentious periods in recent Education Department (ED) history.
Beyond the ED being sued 455 times during her tenure the most in any administration since ED became a Cabinet-level agency in 1980 what is Devos’ legacy?
“I don t think there s going to be much of a legacy once the Biden folks get to work,” Michael Petrilli, a former ED official and current head of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-leaning think tank, told Yahoo Finance. “The things that they did via guidance or regulation are going to be undone pretty quickly.”
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Biden breaks the Obama mold on teachers union strife
Biden’s rhetoric and policies suggest the president-elect is still listening closely to teachers unions in a way Obama often did not.
In this Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, photo students work in class at Meridien Public Charter School in Washington. | Andrew Harnik/AP
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When teachers were upset about the stringent accountability measures Barack Obama imposed on them as president, their union boss turned to Joe Biden for some empathy.
“He listened,” recalls Randi Weingarten, who heads the 1.7 million-member American Federation of Teachers. Obama’s vice president may not have agreed with her during those conversations, Weingarten said in an interview this week, but Biden became her “go-to” when things got tense amid the regime of education reform.