His sister, Betsy DeVos, has served as chair of the Michigan Republican Party, and her husband, Dick DeVos, was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor of Michigan in 2006.

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Education funding is still mostly funded by local taxpayers, and their preferences, for good or ill, will determine the course of American public education more than Bill Gates or Betsy DeVos ever could.

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Oddly, while Jilani spends a good deal of time on Dick and Betsy Devos and various other billionaires and foundations, he only mentions the Gates Foundation in an update at the end of the piece.

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On a recent afternoon, Mr. DeVos and his wife, Betsy, arrived at Windsor for an escape from the Michigan winter.

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