Dick DeVos

  Ron DeSantis, the Republican candidate in Florida's 2018 gubernatorial election, appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., in February 2017.

Capitol Ministries, a group that teaches public officials that the Bible mandates right-wing economic and social policies, is convening its global staff for a regional directors’ conference in Chicago this week. Among the speakers will be Dick DeVos, right-wing political funder and husband of U.S.

Donald Trump announced that Betsy DeVos, a Michigan Republican operative who has been called “the four-star general of the voucher movement,” is his choice to be secretary of education, a fox-guarding-the-chicken-coop appointment if ever there were one.

For wealthy backers of publicly-funded private school vouchers, Utah has been a crucial battleground.