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States sue DeVos on COVID-19 aid rule for private schools
Detroit News via Monroe News
By Craig Mauger and Melissa Nann Burke, The Detroit News
Posted at 12:00 PM
LANSING — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is among a group of attorneys general suing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over a policy requiring public school districts to split their coronavirus relief funds with private school students.
Nessel is partnering with California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to lead a coalition of states in pursuing the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Nessel said DeVos has “erroneously and unlawfully”misinterpreted language in the federal CARES Act and disregarded the clear intentions of Congress with a new rule, resulting in the “dilution” of the amount of federal education aid available to public schools in Michigan by at least $16 million.
Congress intended for school districts to share coronavirus funding with low-income students attending private schools in their districts, Nessel said. DeVos has maintained that the CARES Act does not restrict the aid to only poor students and that all private school students are potentially eligible for the aid.
“Unfortunately, this most recent action by Secretary DeVos is really just another example in a long history of an administration that uses any and every opportunity available to tip the scales in favor of private schools at the great expense of our public schools,” Nessel said.
Nessel is partnering with California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to lead a coalition of states in pursuing the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Nessel said DeVos has “erroneously and unlawfully”misinterpreted language in the federal CARES Act and disregarded the clear intentions of Congress with a new rule, resulting in the “dilution” of the amount of federal education aid available to public schools in Michigan by at least $16 million.
Congress intended for school districts to share coronavirus funding with low-income students attending private schools in their districts, Nessel said. DeVos has maintained that the CARES Act does not restrict the aid to only poor students and that all private school students are potentially eligible for the aid.
“Unfortunately, this most recent action by Secretary DeVos is really just another example in a long history of an administration that uses any and every opportunity available to tip the scales in favor of private schools at the great expense of our public schools,” Nessel said.
Read more: https://www.monroenews.com/news/20200708/states-sue-devos-on-covid-19-aid-rule-for-private-schools
MSNBC just interviewed a guest who described DeVos as "a reverse Robin Hood," taking money from the underprivileged and disadvantaged kids and giving it to the privileged and advantaged who don't need it. The guest stated what DeVos is attempting to do is clearly illegal. These people are so despicable.
