Into the teeth of the student loan crisis walked U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. She’s already making it worse.
The problem goes far beyond the embarrassing ignorance on display at DeVos’ confirmation hearing. Her main qualification for President Trump’s cabinet appears to have been her status as a Republican billionaire-donor. She knows nothing about basic educational policy, the decades-old Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, fraud by for-profit colleges and graduate schools exploiting students, or any other subject about which an aspiring secretary of education should have at least some rudimentary knowledge.
