De Vos clearly isn't qualified for this job except as someone who can turn education into a profit center via charter schools. But at the same time, the public schools need to admit their failings and move past them to find constructive solutions, or the right will continue to have all kinds of reasons to howl about "reform."
Agree privatisation is the core of her competence. But given the state of some the public schools it might be the only real option left. Not sure anything else will fix the bad schools. But it is a brave new world. A lot of change ahead.
But coming back to the original point I hope someone gets through to her. If a poor parent wants to spend money on an AOPS class there needs to be a way to make it happen.
