Trump choice owns home here

This is Paul Janensch with a Treasure Coast Essay about the Indian River County homeowner who is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be secretary of education.  She is Betsy DeVos, 58, businesswoman, philanthropist, Republican donor and education activist.  She is married to Dick DeVos, former president of Amway and former president of the Orlando Magic.  The parents of four grown children, they spend most of their time in Michigan but own a compound in Windsor, the gated ocean-side community north of Vero Beach.  She is an outspoken advocate of charter schools and school voucher programs, in which public money pays private-school tuition.  Conservatives support her.  Teachers unions don’t.  When Betsy DeVos pops up in the news, remember she has a place in Windsor.  I’m Paul Janensch.