As Gail Collins, the New York Times columnist writes, "it was a hard-fought race." The competition, she notes, was very stiff.
But in the end, an unscientific request for reader opinions finds that Michigan's Betsy DeVos, federal secretary of education, is the worst cabinet member.
Collins writes:
With a near tie for second place between Scott Pruitt of the Environmental Protection Agency and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “It’s hard to be worse than Sessions or Pruitt. But DeVos deals with … children,” wrote a Michigan reader.
DeVos really hates public schools — something you don’t find often in a secretary of education. Her goal seems to be replacing them with charter schools, none of which will need much oversight because, you know, the choice thing.
Many readers noted that our secretary of education does not seem to be … all that bright. (“DeVos is a solid choice based on irony alone.”)
