Former Florida governor Jeb Bush was quick to praise the president-elect’s choice of Betsy DeVos for Education secretary when the transition team announced her nomination in November. And on Tuesday, the day of her confirmation hearing, he expounded his support for DeVos in USA Today, praising her commitments to educational equality and local control.

Bush, for whom education reform has been a consistent priority, and DeVos were both early supporters of Common Core State Standards as an avenue to reform. Now, they both cast the standards as federal overreach and advocate a return to local control. They served on the board for the Foundation for Excellence in Education, which Bush founded in 2008.

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