Can Betsy DeVos's good work be saved from 'the Blob?' Print this article Betsy DeVos has resigned after serving almost four years as Education Secretary. In doing so, she harshly criticized the president who appointed her. “We should be highlighting and celebrating your administration's many accomplishments on behalf of the American people,” she wrote in her resignation letter. "Instead, we are left to clean up the mess caused by violent protesters overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to undermine the people's business. There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me."