It’s not that Betsy DeVos is a billionaire, or that she, her husband and kids didn’t attend public schools. It’s not even that her family has given donations to the very people who made her education secretary on Tuesday that makes her an unqualified and unsettling choice for the position.

No, it’s her antipathy for public schools, what she once called a “dead end.”

Yes, it’s the 21st century, and public schools have to change if they are to keep up with the free market, which has made deep incursions into their territory. But unless the charters she’s pushing throw open their doors to the tough-to-teach, the disabled, the English-challenged children, they will be left behind, as they are too often.

With Vice President Mike Pence voting in her favor, breaking the 50-50 Senate deadlock – the first time ever this has occurred for a cabinet position – DeVos will now implement President Trump’s plan to steer $20 billion in existing federal public-education funds into vouchers that pay for private schools.

Read more at The Boulder Daily Camera.