Betsy DeVos: “The status quo is not acceptable. I am committed to transforming our education system into the best in the world.”

Students will be better off without [the Education Department].

Reading opens kids' minds and expands their world. Literacy is the foundation of learning and it's the starting point on the pathway to the American dream.

More and more studies show that kids are actually stoppers of the disease and they don't get it and transmit it themselves. So we should be in a posture of -- the default should be getting back to school kids in-person, in the classroom.

I think that there is almost unanimity around this notion that more students need to have the opportunity to both earn and learn.