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Heavens to Betsy: DeVos Keeps Trip To Schools Private

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 5/21/18

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos bypassed stopping at any of the city’s 1,800 public schools in favor of visiting two yeshivas during a two-day trip to the city, a snub that was slammed by the American Federation of Teachers.

Ms. DeVos, a staunch advocate of school choice, visited the Manhattan High School for Girls May 15 and on the following day Yeshiva Darchei Torah, in Far Rockaway, Queens, where she toured a forensic-science lab and listened to literacy and genealogy lessons.

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