DeVos to visit schools with teachers union leader

OXON HILL, Md. — Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said Thursday that she and the head of the second-largest teachers union in the country have agreed to tour U.S. schools together, after what DeVos said was a “great” conversation between the two.

“My conversation with Randi [Weingarten] was great,” DeVos said of the president of the American Federation of Teachers. “We’ve agreed to visit schools together. I will visit a school that she selects, a traditional public school. And she will visit a choice school,” which might be a public charter school, a private school that accepts government-funded vouchers or another form of school choice.