As the pandemic throws the start of a new school year into disarray across the country, the crisis is also fanning the flames of a long-simmering debate in education: how to split money between public and private schools
Student wears a mask as he raises his hand to answer a question during a summer STEM camp at Wylie High School in Wylie, Texas. | AP Photo/LM OteroA legal battle has been stoked in South Carolina, where Gov. Henry McMaster’s decision, praised by the Trump administration, to allocate $32 million of federal relief dollars to a private school tuition program is being challenged.
The Trump administration has cheered on that approach. Vice President Mike Pence and DeVos last week visited and praised a private school in North Carolina that had reopened its classrooms. DeVos has argued that parents should receive federal assistance to attend private schools if their public schools aren’t giving them an in-person option.
Senate Republicans included in their GOP stimulus bill, S. 4322 , a requirement that 10 percent of the new relief money for K-12 schools flow to private schools. They’re also proposing a new program, championed by DeVos, that would send federal dollars to parents to pay for tuition at private schools or cover homeschooling expenses. Democrats have blasted those plans as non-starters, accusing Republicans of seeking to privatize public education.
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