After one year in office, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is still running a skeleton crew at the Department of Education. The Senate confirmation process for her political appointees has stalled, and Senate Democrats sense blood in the wateraround the nominee to head the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Kenneth Marcus.
Given the hot-button issues affected by that office, from Title IX to school discipline, it is plausible that Democrats could present a united front and, with the help of just two Republican defectors, sink Marcus's nomination. That would be rather short sighted. He is the best nominee that Democrats could hope for under the Trump administration.
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