Instead we have a completely inexperienced person in control of $60bil+ because she paid off Congress. Seems par for the course these days.
DeVos is and remains exceedingly unqualified for the position. She's literally never been taught or been taught in a public school in the entirety of her life. Her B.S. is in poly sci.
Her brother founded what was once known as Blackwater, the same Blackwater that murdered civilians in Iraq. Her husband is heir to the Amway fortune, a name quite prominent in the multi-level marketing community. They also donated 200 million USD to Republican campaigns and causes.
Absolutely absurd.
Quite a lot of it is influenced by incentives and conditions attached to federal funds, both those explicit in law and those resulting from the Department of Education's particular choices in applying the law.
DeVos will control the latter and (presumably, via influence within the Administration and controlling the DoE's interactions with Congress) substantially influence the former.
Too much bureaucracy, institutionalization, unionization and inertia going on. Extremely strange and inconsistent funding/taxation patterns and complete lack of oversight or accountability has been the norm for 30+ years.
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/17/14251600/tr...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/21/harry...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/4/donald-trumps...
The Senate was locked 50-50, in which case the Vice President becomes the deciding vote.
They won't even give DeVos a chance, and most of them, it's because Obama didn't pick her.
Eventually it will come to the point where some of them will question the union at all—as an outsider I look forward to the independent states movements gaining stronger footholds.