Colorado Congressman Jared Polis worries more about Congress creating bad education policy than about U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos enacting it.
But that doesn’t mean the Boulder Democrat isn’t keeping an eye on the controversial new education secretary.
Polis, who was recently named the lead Democrat on the House’s Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee, said he believes the nation’s new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, limits DeVos’ authority. That should give her critics some comfort.
Still, Polis said he’ll be watching to make sure DeVos’s department adheres to the new law — especially its civil rights components.
Polis spoke with Chalkbeat last week about DeVos, the nation’s new education law that he helped pass, and other education topics.
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