Sentences with phrase «devos school choice agenda»
People like Frederick M. Hess want the Trump / DeVos school choice agenda to appear dead.
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Advocates of the DeVos agenda point to polling showing «school choice» is popular with Americans in the abstract.
Still and all, it was the first such federal report on Betsy DeVos's watch and it surely won't help advance the private - school choice agenda that's important to her and that Trump offered up during his campaign.
The nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education guarantees that school choice will remain a key component of the education policy agenda in 2017, as public charter schools continue to expand and state and federal policymakers implement or consider policies to expand access to private schools.
Meanwhile, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been busy fulfilling her conservative agenda that seeks to broaden school choice and market - based schooling in pre-K through higher education.
That seemed to resonate, but it obscured an agenda Melvoin's backers have spent years and millions of dollars advancing, one that Trump's education secretary Betsy DeVos shares: the school choice marketplace not just as the means, but as the goal.
In an interview, Ms. DeVos disagreed, saying the schools in which she has personal investment reflect only an agenda of empowering parents with a right that she was afforded by privilege: choice.
Mrs. DeVos» nomination does not signal an «anti-public school» agenda, but rather, follows the great work of both of President - elect Trump's immediate predecessors, President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, in committing to quality school choices for every American child.
But while DeVos and the president have been touting their school choice agenda, any changes to OCR will likely come without much fanfare.
But there have been a lot of small defeats for Betsy DeVos and her school choice agenda.
Indianapolis, Ind. — Education secretary Betsy DeVos addressed a crowd of several hundred this evening at a national policy summit, introducing the basic elements of President Donald Trump's proposed school - choice agenda, which she called the most ambitious in history.
All of those students were able to succeed as a result of states that allowed for education freedom, and according to DeVos, the Trump administration's new school - choice agenda will give even more American children access to that freedom, too.
While unlikely to alter DeVos's views on school choice, the results of the study are likely to add another layer of complexity to the school - choice debate — and another reason for Democrats to attempt to thwart the Trump administration's education agenda.
In an intensely Democratic city like Los Angeles, its unlikely any of the school board members will want to be viewed as associated in any way with DeVos» and Trump's «school choice» agenda.
Through her family's fortune and conservative political connections, Betsy DeVos has targeted public education and pushed a right - wing school choice agenda for decades.
The choice of Betsy DeVos as education secretary reinforces Trump's school choice agenda.