DeVos touched on several points, including indications that she may try to use the widespread pandemic-driven shutdown to create a path to national school vouchers.
is another version of the voucher approach. For supporters of vouchers and other market-based school choice programs, the current pandemic shutdown is a great opening—their major competition, the public school system, has been swept from the market. It’s not surprising that DeVos would see the pandemic as a golden opportunity to implement a program that she characterizes not as an alternative, but as a necessity .
DeVos offers some unobjectionable content. An endorsement of the idea that schools are not buildings, but teachers, students and parents “working together to advance learning.” College loan relief has been set to six months.
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