House Democrats bringing new scrutiny to education secretary

With a majority in the House of Representatives and control of committees, Democrats plan to use their oversight powers to publicly scrutinize controversial regulations Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has issued. Among the decisions Democratic representatives say they want to examine are the revocation of discipline guidelines regarding disproportionate punishment of students with disabilities and the transfer of funds to private charter schools from public schools serving large populations of students with disabilities.
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