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							<title><![CDATA[Experts: We Can Lower Drug Prices]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Beach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump vowed to rein in rising prescription drug costs, even suggesting that the government get directly involved in negotiating prices. After the recent nomination of pharmaceutical executive Alex Azar to lead the Department of Health and Human Services,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DeVos Scales Back Federal Role, Lets States Lead]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Beach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[State lawmakers around the country are pushing bold and ambitious education reform plans and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos appears content to let them lead the way.?It?s encouraging to see so...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SchoolSmartKC Seeks to Serve Kids In, Out of Classroom]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Beach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? Awais Sufi has spent the last 18 months traversing this Midwestern town in search of solutions to its educational shortcomings. He's met with parents, educators, philanthropists,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Foxx, Trump &amp; DeVos Have a Staunch Education Ally]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Beach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With control of all three branches of government, Republicans are set on unraveling President Obama's education legacy and pushing an unprecedented amount of funding and authority back to states.
Leading this charge is Rep. Virginia Foxx, the newly appointed chairwoman of the House...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With Pence's Vote, Senate Confirms DeVos]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/02/07/with_pences_vote_senate_confirms_devos_133014.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Beach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a razor-close vote emblematic of the heated divide in U.S. politics, the Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos as the next secretary of education in unprecedented fashion on Tuesday.
For the first time ever, the vice president cast a tie-breaking vote in order to confirm a Cabinet-level...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's More to the &quot;Busboys and Poets&quot; Encounter]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Beach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the course of two days, hundreds of thousands of Americans descended upon Washington, D.C., to either celebrate or protest the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Some were proud of their country. Others were embarrassed by it. 
And yet, amid the division emerged a story...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DeVos Withstands Pointed Questioning on Education]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/01/18/devos_withstands_pointed_questioning_on_education_132819.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Beach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Controversy erupted at Betsy DeVos's confirmation hearing Tuesday evening before she even had a chance to speak. 
As Sen. Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, laid out the rules for vetting Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Ready to Grill DeVos on School Choice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/01/17/democrats_ready_to_grill_devos_on_school_choice_132801.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Beach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Betsy DeVos, the billionaire conservative activist and nominee for secretary of education, will likely face one of the most contentious confirmation hearings in the history of the department on Tuesday.
Since being tapped by President-elect Donald Trump, DeVos has been a lightning rod in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Opportunity Should Be Priority in Education]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2016/10/17/opportunity_should_take_priority_in_education_1732.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Beach</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservatives agree that one of our primary goals for education reform should be to siphon power and authority away from Washington, D.C. and return it to where it belongs: the states, local districts, and families. But, at the same time, states and districts must institute high...]]></description>
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