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Betsy DeVos will serve as the new education secretary after Vice President Mike Pence cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate. Tuesday’s vote was the first time in history that a vice president has been forced to cast a tie-breaking vote in a cabinet...

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...

When Donald Trump set out to pick the next education secretary, he faced a stark choice. He could choose an insider who had shaped education policy for a state or large school district. Or he could bring in an outsider — someone who views traditional...

President-elect Donald Trump announced today that school choice advocate Betsy DeVos will be his Secretary of Education. DeVos will have to be confirmed by a Republican majority Senate. “Betsy DeVos is a brilliant and passionate education advocate,...

By Karen Tumulty and Jerry Markon, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday began to follow through on a pledge to put together a diverse administration — not only expanding its makeup along ethnic and gender lines, but also inviting aboard former...