Old habits die hard. And using the Department of Education to dispense federal mandates in service to an overarching agenda has been habitual practice these past eight years.
Right under the surface of the clickable and contentious clashes between Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos and Democrats on the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee at her confirmation hearing last week, lay a hunger for more of the same. Senators stayed true to the prevailing mindset: That a good and decent education secretary, as opposed to an unserious oligarch, would enforce a singular vision of best practice as they see it. In other words, Democrats want more feel-good federal mandates to complicate thorny issues in education.
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