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With drive, ingenuity and a willingness to throw elbows, Obama’s closest friend in the Cabinet has tried to reshape American schools. Now will the backlash erase his legacy? Education Secretary Arne Duncan is a mild-mannered, even-tempered, introverted...

On election night 2006, Dick DeVos, the bronzed, starched 51-year-old scion of Michigan’s wealthiest family, paced to a lectern in the dim ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel in Lansing to deliver the speech that every candidate dreads. The Michigan gubernatorial...

Perhaps guided by the old adage that you have to spend money to make money, the champions of education "reform" have poured billions into the effort to privatize and profit from America’s schools. Those funds are used on multiple fronts: launching charter...

Updated on February 13, 2017 at 7:29 p.m. ET There was a time when Senate Democrats hoped to sink Steve Mnuchin by making him the poster child for Donald Trump’s Cabinet of billionaires: He was a former Goldman Sachs banker who profited off the Great...

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