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    DeVos In Charge, Teacher Well-Being And Chronic Absence: Our Year In Review

    As we say goodbye to 2017, we're reflecting on some of our best education stories of the year.
    by Ariana Figueroa Dec 26, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: LA Johnson/Chelsea Beck/Vivian Shih

    We cover education stories every day. But only one of those days captured our most popular education news of the year.

    That was the day that Betsy DeVos was confirmed as the U.S. Secretary of Education; our story that day was read nearly 1 million times. DeVos is a school choice activist and billionaire Republican donor, who was nominated by President Trump and approved by the Senate, despite the fierce objections of Senate Democrats, teachers unions and others.

    And it wasn't just that and outlined .

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