OHIO: Rifts Remain as Betsy DeVos, Randi Weingarten Tour Ohio District

OHIO: Rifts Remain as Betsy DeVos, Randi Weingarten Tour Ohio District

Van Wert, Ohio — Long-time adversaries U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten spent more than four hours touring this rural Ohio district together Thursday. Both were still alive and well by the end of the day.

And so were the deep divisions in this corner of the country over K-12 education and President Donald Trump.

Even as DeVos and Weingarten counted model dinosaurs with preschool students, watched high school students demonstrate their robotics know-how, and chatted with teachers about social-emotional supports, small groups of protestors from both sides of the political divide gathered…

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