Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned last week in the wake of the rampage on the Capitol, becoming one of the highest profile Cabinet members to do so. Her departure on Friday, after criticizing President Donald Trump’s rhetoric, was a dramatic finale for one of the longest-serving, and most controversial, members of the president’s senior administrative team. It closes out one of the most highly charged tenures in the history of the Education Department. This notoriety could now have implications for the American school system – and for the person who soon steps into the role she has vacated. Pundits were already comparing President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for the role, Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona, to Ms. DeVos, whose central message during her time in office was that “public education” did not need to mean “public schools.” She championed educational innovation and giving families the ability to decide where and how to educate their children – values that have been espoused at different points by those on both sides of the political aisle.