Education leaders challenge Trump assertion that students are ‘deprived of all knowledge’

Christopher Edley, Jr., quoted by EdSource, Jan. 21, 2017

“It certainly doesn’t help kids to model such monumental disregard for facts and stubborn refusal to learn them,” said Edley, who was an adviser to Hillary Clinton during her campaign. He said that the confirmation hearing for DeVos this week on Capitol Hill indicated that she “may also be infected with the same malady.”