The Washington Post
Inside Betsy DeVos’s Efforts to Shrink the Education Department
November 09, 2017
The reduction of the department’s workforce reflects the challenge of filling senior positions when even right-leaning academics are reluctant to work for President Trump and DeVos’s belief that the federal government should tread more lightly in U.S. schools. And it is emblematic of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal workforce overall.