Federal School Safety Commission Holds First Public Session. DeVos Wasn't There
The Federal Commission on School Safety held its first public listening session Wednesday. Secretary DeVos, the chair, as well as the three other cabinet secretaries on the commission, did not attend.
by Brakkton Booker
Jun 06, 2018
3 minutes
The Trump administration's school safety commission held its first public listening session Wednesday, a day after the panel's chair, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that the commission wouldn't focus on guns.
Alessia Modjarrad, a graduating high school senior from Montgomery County, Md., spoke at the day-long event at the Education Department in D.C. She said the few solutions being offered by the administration were "misguided and insufficient."
"I would
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