Education Week: There's a saying in Washington: "Personnel is policy."
If that's true, President-elect Donald Trump's decision to tap billionaire GOP donor and philanthropist Betsy DeVos as U.S. secretary of education means the country could be hearing a lot about school choice over the next few years.
DeVos, who until recently chaired the American Federation for Children, an advocacy organization, and her husband, Richard "Dick" DeVos Jr., sit at the center of an extensive policy and political ecosystem aimed at expanding choice through charter schools, virtual schools, education saving accounts, and vouchers.
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