Sen Perdue, who wanted to abolish Education Dept. now wants to give Betsy DeVos $50 billion

[Budi]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.alternet.org/2020/08/gop-senator-who-wanted-to-abolish-education-dept-now-wants-to-give-betsy-devos-50-billion/amp/


GOP senator who wanted to abolish Education Dept. now
wants to give Betsy DeVos $50 billion

Sen. David Perdue of Georgia, a Republican up for re-election this fall, recently introduced a bill called the ”Safely Creating Healthy Opening Options Locally Act” (the SCHOOL Act), which would give Education Secretary Betsy DeVos control over $50 billion in federal relief grants to local school districts. In the past, Perdue has repeatedly called for defunding and abolishing the Department of Education.

Perdue, who finds himself in a tight race against Democrat Jon Ossoff, a media executive and former congressional candidate, has pitched the bill as way to incentivize schools to reopen amid the coronavirus outbreak, which he once compared to car crashes.



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The bill would also create a federal database for sharing information and best practices nationwide, an apparent departure from Perdue’s 2014 campaign position that the department should be dissolved because he didn’t “see education in the Constitution.”


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Georgia schools have already begun to reopen, turning Perdue’s state into something of a Petri dish for the upcoming school year. The experiment has been mixed: A second-grader tested positive after the first day of class last Wednesday, and nine more people tested positive Monday at one high school after a week of in-person classes, which followed widely reported positive tests among football players and teachers.

“I think quite honestly this week went real well other than a couple of virtual photos,” Republican Gov. Brian Kemp told reporters at a Monday news conference with the U.S. surgeon general.

Though Perdue’s bill empowers DeVos to “award grants to local education agencies,” it does not specify whether schools would have to fully reopen to be eligible. Notably, it also doesn’t specify whether private schools would be eligible for the taxpayer funds, leaving discretion entirely to the federal government:

The Secretary shall determine which local educational agencies will receive a grant, and the amount of each such grant, after considering school size, school setting, specific school needs, and timing of in-person classes.


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DeVos, however, has a record of funneling federal coronavirus relief money to schools that might not need it. She unilaterally diverted millions of dollars in relief to private schools, and admitted to using the pandemic as a way to further her private school agenda.

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Privatize the USPS.
Privatize Public School System

THIS IS WHY DEMOCRAT JON OSSOFF MUST WIN HIS 2020 ELECTION.

A Biden win in Nov gets rid of the whole ugly problem, as well.

💙 #JustVoteBlueFFS

[Me.]

1. It Has No Chance Of Passing

[CurtEastPoint]

2. I watch Hulu with ads and those GD assholes show an anti-Ossoff OVER AND OVER again. ANd a pro Perdu

[rlegro]

3. Well, if it somehow were to happen....

.. that $50 billion in her hands WOULD mean the destruction of the Department of Education, at least in terms of its traditional mission. She'd give it all to for-profit, private and religious schools and colleges while tightening up the public-education funding strings some more.