Betsy DeVos: “The answer is local control and listening to parents, students and teachers.”

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.

My focus is and always will be on students and on helping all students get a great education through an equal opportunity.

There are way too many families that don't have that choice and we continue to consign them in too many cases to schools that do not work for them.

We have got to continue to raise the specter of these opportunities and give them equal credence to the unspoken or often very verbally articulated pressure to go to a 4-year college.