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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos started Friday, the last day of her back-to-school tour, facing more protesters than students.

About 150 foes gathered outside the Kansas City Academy, a small private middle-high school that emphasizes the arts and is known for its acceptance of LGBT students. The school enrolls about 75 students.

Protesters registered their disagreement with DeVos鈥檚 decision to rescind Obama-era guidance that required schools provide transgender students access to facilities matching their gender identities, .

The fourth and final day of DeVos鈥檚 鈥淩ethink School鈥� tour took her to Missouri and Indiana, where she visited a charter school that allows students to earn college credits. She鈥檚 also set to visit Hope Academy, a charter school for students struggling with drug and alcohol addiction, in Indianapolis, and take in a football game at Eastern Hancock High School in Charlottesville, Indiana.

Earlier this week she visited聽Wyoming,听Colorado,听Nebraska, and Kansas. She kicked off the tour urging the country to embrace 鈥渄ramatic change鈥� in the educational system.

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While at the Kansas City school, DeVos visited a ceramics class, where she made pinch pots, and cooked up veggie burgers with the culinary class that prepares the school鈥檚 lunch every day with聽, KCUR reporter Elle Moxley .

She also visited and had a roundtable discussion with students in a world history and government class, who wanted to know why she visited.

鈥淚鈥檝e been visiting schools this week that are doing things differently, creatively, and innovatively, to meet students鈥� needs and to help students find a good fit for them,鈥� she said,听.

The question of whether to host DeVos rankled school leaders, who ultimately said their values of inclusivity and being open to different viewpoints led them to agree to the visit,听.

There were聽 at DeVos鈥檚 second stop, in Gary, Indiana, where she visited 21st Century Charter School and Gary Middle College, two charter schools that allow students to also take classes for college credit.

The middle college, which has a staggered schedule that stretches well into the evening to serve non-traditional students, is 鈥渁 great example of how schools can meet the needs of specific students,鈥� DeVos said,.

The 21st Century School聽 when Raven Osborne earned a college degree while still enrolled in high school. In fact, she was awarded the college degree, from Purdue University Northwest, a few weeks before her high school diploma. She was聽.听

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