Senate Education Committee Gets Three New Members, Including Va.'s Tim Kaine

Education Week: The new roster for the Senate education committee is set for the 115th Congress. There isn't a huge amount of turnover, but there are two newly elected senators who will join the committee, and a senator who's newly prominent thanks to the 2016 race.  • Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. Kaine, of course, was the Democratic vice presidential nominee in the most recent election. On the campaign trail, he promoted the values embodied by school desegregation and Brown v. Board of Education. His wife, Anne Holton, was previously Virginia's education secretary (a different role than the job of chief state school officer), and had her own personal story regarding desegregation in education.

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