Five startling things Betsy DeVos just told Congress
Does this sound familiar? Betsy DeVos went to Capitol Hill to testify before U.S. lawmakers. She didn’t answer a lot of direct questions and engaged in some contentious debates with some members.
That happened in January when she went before the Senate Education Committee for her confirmation hearing, during which she said schools needed guns to protect against grizzly bears. This time, though, she didn’t talk about guns, but she did say that states should have the right to decide whether private schools that accept publicly funded voucher students should be allowed to discriminate against students for whatever reason they want.
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Here are five rather startling things she said — or wouldn’t say:
1. States should have the flexibility to decide whether private schools that accept students with publicly funded vouchers can discriminate any students for any reason
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2. States should have the flexibility to decide whether students with disabilities who are using publicly funded vouchers to pay for private-school tuition should still be protected under the IDEA federal law
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3. High-poverty school districts get more funding than low-poverty schools
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4. The administration is not shifting money for public schools in the budget in order to fund school choice experiments
It is. If there are cuts to public schools, and there is new money going to school choice, that can’t mean anything else.
5. DeVos wouldn’t say whether private and religious schools that accept students paying with public funds should be held accredited or held accountable in the same way that traditional public schools are
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