DeVos issues rule steering more virus aid to private schools

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Source: ABC News

The Trump administration on Thursday moved forward with a policy ordering public schools across the U.S. to share coronavirus relief funding with private schools at a higher rate than federal law typically requires.

Under a new rule issued by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, school districts are ordered to set aside a portion of their aid for private schools using a formula based on the total number of private school students in the district.

The policy has been contested by public school officials who say the funding should be shared based on the number of low-income students at local private schools rather than their total enrollments. That's how funding is shared with private schools under other federal rules that Congress referenced in the legislation creating the relief aid.

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The difference between the two formulas amounts to tens of millions of dollars. In Louisiana, for example, private schools are estimated to get at least 267% more under DeVos' formula. In the state’s Orleans Parish, at least 77% of its relief allotment would end up going to private schools.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. DeVos is a criminal. Belongs in prison.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Along with her sweet brother.

[Laelth]

3. Or what? Lose Title 1 funding?

This is very heavy-handed for the Department of Education. DeVos is truly horrid.

-Laelth

[Lonestarblue]

4. I can't wait to see this woman fired by Biden. She is a disaster.

She decimated Michigan education with her for-profit charter schools that took the money but delivered nothing useful to students. She has been trying to make it as hard as possible for public schools to operate because her business buddies need profits. Democrats have a list of things to do and undo that’s a mile long, bit I hope charter schools get a real look. Far too many of them are just skimming taxpayer money for their profits and then they disappear. Private prisons also need to disappear.

[sakabatou]

5. Such an evil woman

[ResistantAmerican17]

6. Can't their kids sell Hermes bags to other rich parents as a fundraiser?

[iluvtennis]

7. Private schools charging ten of thousands per student need to be subsidized by public school.

I call BS.