
DeVos victory could be defeat for charters
DeVos is “no threat to traditional schools, especially those beloved suburban schools that parents seek out,” writes Richard Whitmire in USA Today. “She does present a threat to public charter schools, which have proven to be the first-ever school reform that works at scale for poor kids.” Students at Boston’s high-performing Match High School, one of the city’s high-performing charter schools. The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, limits the Educatio