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DeVos At The One-Year Mark; Black Lives Matter In Schools; Zero Tolerance

The education secretary has had success in rolling back Obama-era regulations, but she's made less progress on school choice. That, and other education news in our weekly roundup.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos

It's been a year since Betsy DeVos was sworn in as Education Secretary, and this month marks the first anniversary of our weekly education news roundup!

Let's pause to mark those moments ... and then get on to this week's headlines.

While DeVos has in some ways made little progress on her signature issue — school choice, she spent much of her twelve months in office undoing work that she and many conservatives viewed as overreach by the Obama

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