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A progress report on Betsy DeVos’ education agenda

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in Washington, D.C.

Elizabeth Mann Levesque, a fellow in Governance Studies and the Brown Center on Education Policy, discusses some of the policies being pursued by the United States Department of Education under current Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.

Also in this episode, Joseph Parilla introduces his research on cluster-based economic development in the latest edition of our Metro Lens segment.

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Thanks to audio producer Gaston Reboredo with assistance from Mark Hoelscher, and to producers Brennan Hoban and Chris McKenna. Additional support comes from Jessica Pavone, Eric Abalahin, Camilo Ramirez, and Emily Horne.

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