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Betsy DeVos and the 2020 Federal Budget

Do you support increase of federal spending on charter school vouchers?

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  • No, I do not

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Ryan Longo

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Turns out DeVos wants the U.S. Department of education to receive a 12% cut in its total budget. Since the right to establish schools is a state right it shouldn't have a massive impact on the curriculum. However, DeVos openly supports a heavy increase in federal spending in charter vouchers for students. Now, this could be beneficial for students to go to a "better" school but one has to take a look at the statistics regarding them. In 2015-16 1 out 13 charter schools closed(Inside Charter School Growth: A Look At Closings - NACSAlowest rate since 2011) which means a lot have failed and a few of those who haven't closed are struggling. Now the reason why this is important is that these schools are funded by the government and every time one fails to open or closes due to mismanagement government money. Why is DeVos trying to throw money($1B+) at these schools in the first place? She's even cutting funding for after-school programs, the Special Olympics, and community centers to afford more voucher spending. She also wants to raise executives' salaries inside the department by 12%.

What are your thoughts?
 
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Ryan Longo said:
Turns out DeVos wants the U.S. Department of education to receive a 12% cut in its total budget. Since the right to establish schools is a state right it shouldn't have a massive impact on the curriculum. However, DeVos openly supports a heavy increase in federal spending in charter vouchers for students. Now, this could be beneficial for students to go to a "better" school but one has to take a look at the statistics regarding them. In 2015-16 1 out 13 charter schools closed(Inside Charter School Growth: A Look At Closings - NACSAlowest rate since 2011) which means a lot have failed and a few of those who haven't closed are struggling. Now the reason why this is important is that these schools are funded by the government and every time one fails to open or closes due to mismanagement government money. Why is DeVos trying to throw money($1B+) at these schools in the first place? She's even cutting funding for after-school programs, the Special Olympics, and community centers to afford more voucher spending. She also wants to raise executives' salaries inside the department by 12%.

What are your thoughts?
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DeVos is heavily vested in private education and has considerable financial exposure to it.

She is presently in a position to both:

A: Allocate public funds towards private education.

and

B: Marginalize public education as competition for private education.

Therefore she will indeed do both; she is very simply looting public education to subsidize private education and thus bolster and promote her financial interests. It's more of the same legalized corruption and conflicts of interest that have become painfully mundane in US governance for decades, and have intensified recently under Trump.
 
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I'm not against charter schools. However, the government's responsibility is to fund public schools.
 
My thoughts are DeVos is a complete idiot who is loyal to private schools at the expense of public education because her friends and family line their pockets with charter school money.
 
haymarket said:
My thoughts are DeVos is a complete idiot who is loyal to private schools at the expense of public education because her friends and family line their pockets with charter school money.
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That's exactly it; she promotes privately operated schools because that's where her financial interests are.
 
Ryan Longo said:
Turns out DeVos wants the U.S. Department of education to receive a 12% cut in its total budget. Since the right to establish schools is a state right it shouldn't have a massive impact on the curriculum. However, DeVos openly supports a heavy increase in federal spending in charter vouchers for students. Now, this could be beneficial for students to go to a "better" school but one has to take a look at the statistics regarding them. In 2015-16 1 out 13 charter schools closed(Inside Charter School Growth: A Look At Closings - NACSAlowest rate since 2011) which means a lot have failed and a few of those who haven't closed are struggling. Now the reason why this is important is that these schools are funded by the government and every time one fails to open or closes due to mismanagement government money. Why is DeVos trying to throw money($1B+) at these schools in the first place? She's even cutting funding for after-school programs, the Special Olympics, and community centers to afford more voucher spending. She also wants to raise executives' salaries inside the department by 12%.

What are your thoughts?
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Most children don't get to go to "better schools". The better schools are generally far more expensive and are quickly filled by the children of people with money and power. The recent University admissions scandal would be nothing, just imagine the rich and powerful in the same situation, but without any laws or rules to hold them back.

Also nearly all of these "better schools" exist in expensive neighbourhoods, or require significant travel, so travel expenses and restrictions ensure poor children will never be able to attend anyways.

That leaves a bunch of crap private schools. Schools that are trying to maximize their profits at the expense of education. That's largely what will be left for the rest of America.
 
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rocket88 said:
I'm not against charter schools.
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I am, for one reason: People with money and power send their kids to charter schools.

When I went to school, mostly everyone's kids were in public education, including the politicians and high level government staffers. So when something went wrong with education, you bet something was done asap.

Nowadays people with power send their kids to private schools, so when something goes wrong with public education, most of the people who could fix things don't care.

DeVos is a perfect example imo.
 
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