"After more than a year on the job, I would have hoped Secretary DeVos would have learned by now that her extreme ideas to privatize our nation's public schools and dismantle the Department of Education do not have support among parents or in Congress, but unfortunately that does not seem to be the case," said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the ranking Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee. "I'm proud to have worked with Republicans in Congress to flatly reject these ideas, and increase funding for programs Secretary DeVos tried to cut, including K-12 education, civil rights protections, college affordability, and more."