I personally look forward to seeing the reforms DeVos brings to public education. We've tried for more than 40 years to reform public schools by asking the NEA union and public school teachers and administrators who belong to the NEA to make it better. That's been a dismal failure. School quality has gone down, not up.

Meanwhile, private schools have been producing quality students. So it makes sense that we would ask those who have been successful in doing what the public system has failed at to help us reform the system. DeVos represents a radical departure from asking the wolves to guard the hen house. I look forward to seeing what changes she is able to make and whether we see benefits from those reforms down the road.

Unfortunately, it takes about 15 years for any education reform to actually show an outcome and I doubt the leftists will allow DeVos' reforms that long to have an effect. But we'll see.