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Campbell Brown: On Betsy DeVos

Bradford — Why Do I Hope DeVos Boosts School Vouchers and Scholarships? Because They Changed My Life

Analysis: How Betsy DeVos Could Scramble the Ideology and Politics of Education Reform

Analysis: Did Senate ‘Nuclear Option’ Help DeVos Rise Over Rhee for Education Secretary Nod?

Common Core, Trumped: Ed Secretary Hopeful DeVos Aligns With Pence in Pushing Local Standards

Trump Picks His Education Secretary: The First 6 Things to Know About Betsy DeVos

Analysis: Trumpism Goes to School — What Our New President Means for Local Choice and Control

Snyder: Make School Safe Again — Why We Must Speak Out Against Surge in Election-Related Bullying

Make Our Schools Safe Again: 500 Scary Incidents (and Counting) of Election-Inspired Bullying at School

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Rees: Elections Come and Go, but Movements — Like School Choice — Endure

Whitmire—Why Question 2 Lost in Massachusetts: The Better the Charter, the Bigger the Threat

What Will Trump Do on Education? Seeking Clues on Common Core, School Choice, ESSA

Gary Herbert, Who Changed Positions on the Common Core, Wins Utah Governor’s Race

Oklahoma Voters Reject Initiative to Raise Teacher Pay

Massachusetts Voters Say No to Charter School Expansion

Georgia Rejects State Intervention in Chronically Failing Schools

California Brings Back Bilingual Education

Sen. Pat Toomey Re-elected in Pennsylvania

Education at the Polls, Coast to Coast: 22 Big Races and Ballot Questions to Watch Tuesday Night

Oregon Ballot Measure Looks to Turn Around One of the Worst Graduation Rates in the U.S.

Clinton vs. Trump: The Final Education Election Guide

California Voters to Decide Future of Bilingual Education for Country’s Largest ELL Population

EDlection 2016: Montana’s Schools Chief Vying to Be First Native American Woman in Congress

Moral Duty or Impending Threat? Georgia Ballot to Include Proposed State Takeover District

How a Manhattan High School’s Turnaround Story Could Shape Trump’s (and Clinton’s) Education Plan

Trump Goes All In on School Choice in First Major Education Policy Speech

Trump’s ‘Education Week’ Calculation: A New Pivot to Woo Reluctant Republicans and Swing State Minorities

EDlection 2016: 18 Memorable Education Conversations That Erupted Around the Conventions

New Video: Gov. Scott Walker Talks Education and School Choice With The 74 at the RNC

Want to Teach in Hawaii? They’re Hiring — and Probably Recruiting in a City Near You

Who’s Advising Donald Trump on Education Anyway? Is Anyone?

Testing Wars and the Educational Whack-a-Mole Facing Indiana’s Next State Schools Chief

Baltimore’s Next Mayor: 13 Democrats Who Want the Job, and What School Challenges Await Them

Funny Or Trump: Watch the Hilarious Online Spoof That Calls Out GOP Rhetoric on Common Core Standards

John Kasich’s Education Record: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

In the Shadows of Wyoming’s Oil and Coal HeyDey, An Education Funding Crisis

From Arne Duncan on Down: 23 Critical Education Questions for the Presidential Candidates

WATCH: Desperate Nevada Parents Hope Courts Uphold Education Savings Accounts

And Then There Were Seven: What We Know About Every Candidate’s Education Agenda

After Years of Squashing School Choice in Texas, the Speaker of the House May Be Singing a Different Tune

Educate Nebraska: Inside the Ambitious Plan to Revive State’s Sputtering Charter Movement

Inside New Hampshire’s Innovative Push to Change the Way We Test Students

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