Tag: public money for private schools

This is what Betsy DeVos thinks about people who oppose her school-choice vision

The following article by Valerie Strauss was posted on the Washington Post website May 29, 2017:

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at a school-choice event as President Trump looks on at the White House on May 3. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

During the Obama administration, Education Secretary Arne Duncan got pretty steamed at people who opposed his school reform efforts, especially his support for the Common Core State Standards. In 2013, for example, he went after Core critics, telling a group of state schools superintendents:

“It’s fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were, and that’s pretty scary.”

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Trump’s first full education budget: Deep cuts to public school programs in pursuit of school choice

Because a democracy needs an educated populance?  Our guess is yes.

The following article by my Emma Brown, Valerie Strauss and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel was posted on the Washington Post website May 17, 2017:

Funding for college work-study programs would be cut in half, public-service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post. Continue reading “Trump’s first full education budget: Deep cuts to public school programs in pursuit of school choice”