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Betsy DeVos Won’t Shed Stake in Biofeedback Company, Filings Show

Ms. DeVos, the education secretary nominee, is a major financial backer of Neurocore, a Michigan company that operates drug-free “brain performance centers.”

Nominee Betsy DeVos’s Knowledge of Education Basics Is Open to Criticism

The school choice advocate seemed unfamiliar with basic terms and policies, including the federal law for students with disabilities.

Betsy DeVos’s Education Hearing Erupts Into Partisan Debate

A Senate hearing for Ms. DeVos, a billionaire who did not attend public schools or send her children to them, became a debate over how to spend public money on education.

Democrats Criticize Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Choice for Education

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet picks for the departments of Health and Human Services, Education and the Interior highlight a week of confirmation hearings.

Trump’s Pick for Education Could Face Unusually Stiff Resistance

Betsy DeVos, a billionaire who has never been an educator or overseen a state education agency, has her own questions to answer about potential conflicts of interest.

‘Abandoned’ in New Jersey, Chris Christie Returns to a Changed Landscape

After months of humiliation on the campaign trail, the governor came home to find angry voters and a State Legislature unwilling to support his agenda.

How Trump’s Education Nominee Bent Detroit to Her Will on Charter Schools

Betsy DeVos pushed back on any regulation of Detroit’s troubled school system. Will she bring that free-market approach to America’s public schools?

Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Education Pick, Has Steered Money From Public Schools

Ms. DeVos, a philanthropist, activist and Republican fund-raiser, has worked to give families vouchers to attend private schools and pressed to expand charter schools.

Trump Diversifies Cabinet; Picks Nikki Haley and Betsy DeVos

The president-elect’s first picks were white men, but now he has recruited two women: Gov. Nikki R. Haley of South Carolina and Betsy DeVos, a G.O.P. philanthropist.

Grievances and Grumblings, Long Before Chris Christie’s Fall in Donald Trump’s Circle

Governor Christie’s dismissal from the president-elect’s transition team was weeks in the making, according to interviews with people close to the governor and the campaign.