U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has chosen, as a new department staff member, a former Indiana education official who also worked for years at former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s education foundation. Education media Chalkbeat reports Neil Ruddock has been working for the federal education department since early February after four years as regional advocacy director at Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE), where DeVos also served as a board member and to which she provided financial contributions. Ruddock’s name appears on a ProPublica list of Trump administration officials who do not require scrutiny by the U.S. Senate. Chalkbeat reports: Before joining Bush’s foundation (where DeVos served on the board) in 2012, Ruddock headed school choice programs in Indiana’s education department policy and research office for three years. During his tenure, the state launched and then expanded a school voucher program that could be a model as DeVos seeks to expand school choice across the country. On his LinkedIn page, Ruddock describes his work at Bush’s FEE: Connected Foundation policy experts to state legislators, executive branch staff and local education advocacy groups; Provided policy feedback on school choice legislation and regulations; Authored blog posts for the Foundation’s “EdFly” blog and assisted