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The article discusses controversies involving U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in relation to allegations that she is supportive of white supremacy. Topics include her views on charter schools and individualized instruction, social media criticism of DeVos and her views, and the relation of DeVos to resistance to the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

The article presents information that when film producer Zach Richter was looking for a way to publicize his documentary about a flourishing Connecticut charter school, he turned to Washington. Under the U.S. President George Bush administration, the Education Department's largest traditional public relations undertaking has been its $1 million contract with the New York City-based public relations giant Ketchum Inc., for promoting the No Child Left Behind Act. RedGizmo mapped out a bilingual campaign aimed at educating parents about the No Child Left Behind Act, which included an interactive Web site and a series of events that featured President Bush's first-term secretary of education, Rod Paige.

This article reports that the Department of Education became entangled last week in an election-season public relations mess Belated to the work it hired a public relations firm to do. Last year, the New York City-based Ketchum public relations firm produced a video news release promoting the No Child Left Behind Act. People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group based in Washington, discovered the video and news analysis through a Freedom of Information Act request, said Nancy Keenan, the group's education policy director.