Congress dealt a blow to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s school choice agenda in a tentative spending bill released late Wednesday, rejecting her attempt to spend more than $1 billion promoting choice-friendly policies and private school vouchers.
DeVos had sought to cut Education Department funding by $3.6 billion — about 5 percent. Among other cuts, she wanted to eliminate funding for after-school programs for needy youth and ax a grant program that helps low-income students go to college in favor of spending more than $1 billion to promote charter schools, magnet schools and private school vouchers. Her proposal also outlined cuts to the Office for Civil Rights because the office had grown more efficient, she said, a move that outraged Democrats and civil rights groups.
Her budget also eliminated grant programs that supported student mental-health services — a move that received scrutiny in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. DeVos said her budget reflected her policy priorities and her attempts to roll back the role the federal government plays in schools.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...enda-in-spending-bill/?utm_term=.eaef65656bc2
Except for private schools, of course. She wants our tax dollars to go to those. Problem is, when she tried to privatize Michigan schools, the results were worse than the public school results.
Her attempt to stop minority students from going to college, so that her private school friends can pay less tuition was likely the last straw; even many republicans couldn't go with that.
Sorry Trump.
DeVos had sought to cut Education Department funding by $3.6 billion — about 5 percent. Among other cuts, she wanted to eliminate funding for after-school programs for needy youth and ax a grant program that helps low-income students go to college in favor of spending more than $1 billion to promote charter schools, magnet schools and private school vouchers. Her proposal also outlined cuts to the Office for Civil Rights because the office had grown more efficient, she said, a move that outraged Democrats and civil rights groups.
Her budget also eliminated grant programs that supported student mental-health services — a move that received scrutiny in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. DeVos said her budget reflected her policy priorities and her attempts to roll back the role the federal government plays in schools.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...enda-in-spending-bill/?utm_term=.eaef65656bc2
Except for private schools, of course. She wants our tax dollars to go to those. Problem is, when she tried to privatize Michigan schools, the results were worse than the public school results.
Her attempt to stop minority students from going to college, so that her private school friends can pay less tuition was likely the last straw; even many republicans couldn't go with that.
Sorry Trump.
