CURMUDGUCATION: Trump and DeVos Abandon Charter Schools

CURMUDGUCATION: Trump and DeVos Abandon Charter Schools

Trump and DeVos Abandon Charter Schools

Surprise! Never mind Sanders or Warren. Just like that, the charter supporters have found themselves abandoned by the Trump administration.

The Trump budget axes federal support for charter schools, rolling the federal money for charters into a big fat all-purpose block grant, a big chunk of money retrieved from various programs that have been deemed redundant and ineffective. States will now get a big pile of money that they can spend on a loosely defined bunch of Education Stuff.

If they want to spend some of that on charter schools, they can. But by combining the various program moneys, the feds have now put charters in the position of having to compete on the state level against other programs for things like education for homeless children (you can see more of the details here in the department's budget summary).

Charter folks are not happy. National Review gave Nina Rees (President and CEO of the National Alliance for Public [sic] Charter Schools) a bunch of space to count all the ways she doesn't like this, from leaving families with fewer options to it would give too much power to folks who are against charters to, well, this fairly honest statement from Twitter

Nina Rees@Ninacharters

So “finding the courage to do something different” means keeping or increasing funding for programs like Indian Ed and Voc Ed but throwing away a program that helps entrepreneurs access funds to open innovative new public schools ⁦@BetsyDeVosED⁩? https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2020-02-10/trump-administrations-budget-would-eliminate-federal-funding-for-charter-schools …

Trump Administration’s Budget Would Eliminate Federal Funding for Charter Schools

The funding would be rolled into a new $19.4 billion block grant along with 28 other elementary and secondary education programs.

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Pity those poor entrepreneurs.

This doesn't come out of nowhere. DeVos has always been pretty clear that she's interested in CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: Trump and DeVos Abandon Charter Schools