If Betsy Devos' efforts in Detroit had been at all successful, I'd say it's worth looking at what she's selling. However, since her privatization has been a miserable failure, she is definitely not the person to head up the department of education.

New ideas are fine and should be looked into and even put into pilot projects. Failed schemes aren't the same as new ideas.

I'll acknowledge having more than a few bad feelings towards Ms Devos. Her brother owned Blackwater, hired killers (since renamed), and her husband's family business is the Amway scam which was forced to pay $150M just a few years ago for fraud. She's not exactly an ethical person, in my opinion.