Detroit — U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon brought her Returning Education to the States Tour to Michigan on Monday, visiting three schools along with Hillsdale College, and touting a need to downsize the role of the federal education department and promote school choice.

Just one stop on the tour was open to media, a short single-classroom tour at Pembroke Academy, a charter school, followed by a round-table discussion with 15 minutes of the hour-long conversation open to the public. Pembroke is a National Blue Ribbon School, a list of about 350 schools nationwide honored for academic success. It has about 500 students in grades K-8.

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