Betsy DeVos: “We have a responsibility to protect every student in America.”

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.

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.

I think, importantly, that flexibility at the State and local level would really allow those closest to the students to target those resources.

I think the block grant proposal is really sort of transformative in that way because it would allow for all of the uses of those programs.