Education Secretary Betsy DeVos appeared before the House education committee on Tuesday to discuss the policies and priorities of the department she leads, but there were some things she just wouldn’t — or couldn’t — say. DeVos has been running the department for a little more than a year, and the controversy that marked the […]
Some significant proposals championed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and President Donald Trump were rejected in the $1.3 trillion spending bill that’s making its way through Congress. DeVos and Trump proposed a budget that would have cut the Education Department’s budget by $3.6 billion and funneled more than $1 billion toward private school vouchers and
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The Huffington Post has a great in-depth look at how school voucher programs funnel money from inclusive public schools to private religious schools: These schools are among thousands in the United States that participate in private school choice programs, which most often come in the form of state-level voucher or tax credit scholarships. Voucher programs offer
Betsy DeVos said her goal for education reform was to achieve “greater kingdom gain” for God. Now, her schedule shows she may be working hard to achieve that goal. The New York Times explains: “A detailed look at the first six months of Ms. DeVos’s tenure as the secretary of education — based on a
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On Wednesday (8/30) Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos convened two roundtable discussions on “school choice” in Tallahassee, Florida. It is unsurprising that DeVos, a longtime champion of school voucher initiatives, would host a discussion on school choice. What is surprising is the guest list, which included religious leaders and business owners but neglected to include
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