There are few individuals that have done as much for Public Education as Senator Lamar Alexander. Everyone talks about class size but when he was Governor of Tennessee, Alexander pushed a study, STAR, student teacher achievement ratio, that proved scientifically what everyone knew. This drove federally funded programs to reduce class size to 1 to 18. Here in Kodiak in the late 90s we got annual grants to do this. Trump and Senator McConell have shown as desire to "sell" this cabinet position. It is no different than an English nobleman buying an army during the Napoleanic Wars for fame and glory. Senate Chairman Alexander just had the President take a crap on his legacy and Senator Murkowski helped him do it. She will have to now fight an uphill battle to redeem herself from being complicit in promoting this deletant Betsy DeVos.