Bringing The World Home To You

© 2024 WUNC North Carolina Public Radio
120 Friday Center Dr
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
919.445.9150 | 800.962.9862
91.5 Chapel Hill 88.9 Manteo 90.9 Rocky Mount 91.1 Welcome 91.9 Fayetteville 90.5 Buxton 94.1 Lumberton 99.9 Southern Pines 89.9 Chadbourn
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
4/16/2024 4:00m: Our web player should now be able to play our livestreams on iOS 17.4 devices. Thank you!

President-Elect Trump Selects DeVos For Education Secretary

Published November 23, 2016 at 2:06 PM EST
President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence and Betsy DeVos pose for photographs at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J., Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence and Betsy DeVos pose for photographs at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J., Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has announced that he intends to appoint Elisabeth “Betsy” DeVos as the secretary of education.

DeVos is a philanthropist from West Michigan and the head of the group American Federation for Children, a conservative think tank focused on education.

NPR’s Eric Westervelt (@Ericnpr) joins Here & Now to discuss.

Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.