When Betsy DeVos, President-elect Trump’s excellent choice for secretary of education, sits at her confirmation hearing on Tuesday, she will take fire from Democratic senators armed by teachers unions with talking points defending public education’s calamitous status quo.

The unions and their elected allies still man the barricades against educational freedom, determined to prevent steps that improve children’s education while undermining labor’s collective power to persist in its abuses.

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