Betsy DeVos: Why the US Department of Education Should Be Abolished | TEASER

America’s current education system is antiquated, wasteful, and “bent on saving and serving itself,” argues former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. She is one of the very few department heads to have advocated for the abolition of the agency she ran. Education gaps have only widened since the establishment of the federal Department of Education under President Jimmy Carter, she says. Two years of remote learning has now put kids months, if not years behind during this pandemic. “You couple the learning losses with the mental health challenges, and you have a disaster looming,” DeVos says. She is the author of the new book, “Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child.” Tonight, she breaks down creative new approaches to schooling being adopted in states like Florida and Arizona that could soon change the game for millions of children across America.