BACK TO THE MINE! A 1906 photo of a 14-year-old mine laborer. WASHINGTON POST

A think tank funded by Dick and Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s pick to be Education secretary, published this piece endorsing the return of child labor.

That’s just a sidelight, though, to her work to destroy public education and to fight meaningful oversight of charter and private schools and other ways to funnel public dollars away from conventional schools.

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Jane Mayer of the New Yorker with more on DeVos.

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