The Betsy DeVos disaster
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On Sunday evening, CBS' "60 Minutes" broadcast an interview that Lesley Stahl conducted with Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump's education secretary and one of the richest members of his very rich Cabinet. It was overwhelmingly seen as a disaster for DeVos, who struggled to answer very basic questions. She couldn't say, for example, why schools in Michigan, her home state, have largely gotten worse since the widespread introduction of the school choice policies she lobbied for. When Stahl asked whether, as secretary, she'd ever visited a failing school to find out what went wrong, DeVos said, "I have not intentionally visited schools that are underperforming."