![]() Although light on details, Trump has pledged to devote $20 billion to a federal voucher program. The New York Times has also run series of hand-wringing pieces about what the Trump administration has in store for our nation’s education system.Īt the center of the panic over Trump’s nomination of DeVos is their support for school choice. ![]() American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten tweeted“Trump has chosen the most ideological, anti-public ed nominee since the creation of the Dept of Education.” Over at Slate, Dana Goldstein frets that “ Trump could gut public education“-even though federal dollars account for less than 10 percent of district school funding nationwide. President-Elect Trump’s selection of philanthropist and long-time school choice advocate Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education has the public education establishment and its allies in panic mode.
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