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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is hitting the road.

DeVos will start her back-to-school tour in Wyoming Tuesday. She鈥檒l also make stops in Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Indiana between Tuesday and Friday, at 鈥渋nnovative educational settings across the United States that are fundamentally rethinking 鈥榮chool,鈥� 鈥� according to a release from the Education Department.

She鈥檒l visit the Woods Learning Center in Casper, a small public elementary-middle school, in the morning and St. Stephens Indian High School, part of a now-K-12 Bureau of Indian Education campus that was founded more than 120 years ago on the Wind River Reservation.

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鈥�There are so many new and exciting ways state-based education leaders and advocates are truly rethinking education,鈥� DeVos said in a press release. 鈥淚t is our goal with this tour to highlight what鈥檚 working. We want to encourage local education leaders to continue to be creative, to empower parents with options and to expand student-centered education opportunities.鈥�

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Other details of DeVos鈥檚 schedule for the 鈥淩ethink School鈥� tour were sparse, but the six states on her list align with the Senate committees that will oversee her work. Senators from Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and Indiana sit on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee shepherding implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act and reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, and Sen. Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri, chairs the subcommittee that oversees the department鈥檚 funding.

Beyond the Tuesday kickoff in Wyoming (see Mark Keierleber’s rundown of 5 things to know about Wyoming education ahead of DeVos’s visit), it was not clear on which days she would be in which state, where she鈥檒l stop, or whether those schools will include pre-K, K-12, or higher education, or whether they鈥檒l be public, private, or charters. The Education Department did not return emails or phone calls seeking additional details.聽

In Missouri, she could visit the Kansas City Academy, a private middle and high school with an arts focus that鈥檚 known for its acceptance of students with a wide range of sexual and gender identities,

And in Nebraska, officials with the Lincoln Public Schools said the visit was still tentative, but federal officials had requested to visit a science-focused program run through the Lincoln Zoo, .

DeVos so far has visited 24 pre-K鈥�12 schools, including six private, six charter, and 12 traditional public schools, plus five colleges. She also gave the commencement address at Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black college in Florida, this year.

Former education secretary Arne Duncan started the back-to-school bus tour in 2010, and he and successor John King made the trip every year. Previous events were:

鈥� 2016: 鈥淥pportunity Across America鈥� tour in Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana

鈥� 2015: 鈥淩eady for Success鈥� tour in Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania

鈥� 2014: 鈥淧artners in Progress鈥� tour in Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee

鈥� 2013: 鈥淪trong Start, Bright Future鈥� tour in New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, and California

鈥� 2012: 鈥淓ducation Drives America鈥� tour in Nevada, California, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, and Virginia

鈥� 2011: 鈥淓ducation and the Economy鈥� tour in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois

鈥� 2010: 鈥淐ourage in the Classroom鈥� tour, with a first leg in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and a second leg in New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine

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