DeVos Resigns As Education Secretary, Says, ‘Impressionable Children Are Watching’

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, pictured here in October, 2020, announced her resignation on Thursday.

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Updated at 11:55 p.m. ET

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos sent a letter to President Trump on Thursday announcing her resignation. She is the latest administration official to quit in protest of Wednesday’s violence at the U.S. Capitol. The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

For four years, DeVos has been one of Trump’s steadiest allies in a Cabinet with revolving doors, but in a letter to the president, DeVos said she was tendering her resignation, effective Friday, because she had seen enough this week: