Researchers Push Back As Betsy DeVos, ALEC Advance Virtual School Expansion

Policy and Government

Researchers Push Back As Betsy DeVos, ALEC Advance Virtual School Expansion

July 18, 2017

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.

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