While DeVos likes to wrap herself in the language of the righteous — she claimed on Wednesday morning that she is concerned about the «average» performance of U.S. students when it comes to international rankings — there is little proof that her
suggested alternatives to public education will work any better.
The American education system has historically recognized religious private schools
as alternatives to public education and they should be free to proselytize to their own students because, after all, they were paying for it themselves.
«They're supposed to be an experiment, not
an alternative to public education.
As government officials were closing off
alternatives to public education, they were also giving Catholic families good reason to want to distance themselves from government - run schools.
He long opposed the later idea that charter schools could be
an alternative to public education.