Remember when Congress passed that $2 trillion covid-19 stabilization law? You know, the one that gave billions to big corporations and left small businesses in the lurch? (At least it put $1,200 in our bank accounts.) Right, that one. Well, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is here to make sure a chunk of that money goes to the right place: Jesus schools and private institutions.
that DeVos is “directing millions of federal dollars intended primarily for public schools and colleges to private and religious schools.” The coronavirus aid package allocates $30 billion total for educational institutions
; $13.5 billion for elementary and secondary schools, $14 billion for higher education, and the rest to themoney that can be used to pay private school. “[DeVos] has directed school districts to share millions of dollars designated for low-income students with wealthy private schools,” theAnd [DeVos] has nearly depleted the 2.
In Montana, school officials estimate that compliance would shift more than $1.5 million to private and home schools, up from about $206,469 that the schools are due under current law. In Louisiana, private schools would receive at least 267 percent more funding, and at least 77 percent of the relief allocation for Orleans Parish would be redirected, according to a letter state that education chiefs sent to Ms. DeVos.
In other words, it’s time for DeVos to take advantage of a nationwise crisis to fund her own pet project: Crushing
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