DeVos called HBCUs 'pioneers' of 'school choice.' It didn't go over well.

DeVos called HBCUs 'pioneers' of 'school choice.' It didn't go over well.

Many advocates of historically black colleges and universities were apoplectic after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos called the group of schools forged at the height of racial segregation "pioneers" of "school choice." DeVos issued a statement Monday evening after a meeting with HBCU leaders, praising their schools for identifying "a system that wasn't working" and taking it "upon themselves to provide the solution" from the outset of their founding.

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