By contrast, the bill largely ignores the Trump administration's proposed Education Department budget, which would slash aid to the agency by about 10 percent. In fact, the spending bill continues to fund all the 29 programs the administration sought to eliminate. The spending deal also ignores Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' signature proposal, Education Freedom Scholarships, which would use federal tax credits administered by the Department of the Treasury to pay for private school costs and a host of other educational services. The Treasury Department's budget under the deal includes no mention of new funds to administer these tax credits. - Education WeekReally inflicting their agenda on our education system has never been a big priority for Trump and his crowd of almost equally despicable witlings, so DeVos doesn’t have anyone’s ear at budget time. That said, she absolutely has done a lot of (under-reported, in corporate media), damage.
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Betsy DeVos gets a lump of coal for Christmas
Just a small lump, in context. But this is not disheartening, as far as it goes. It has been signed into law.
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I sense that the Trump Administration said "Do us a favor" to Congressman Phil Roe during the mark-up of H.R.4674 - College Affordability Act. He offered an amendment to prevent "the bill from taking effect until the Institute for Education Sciences certifies that such implementation shall not increase the cost of attendance" ... of course that would implement a potential delay in implementation ... that would only be compounded by the more than 15% budget cut that DeVos asked for in the FY2020. The amendment was defeated in a party line vote.
ReplyDeleteBTW ... the bill was passed out of committee on a party line vote and is presently sponsored by Minnesotans Craig, McCollum and Omar. When the full House votes on it may be irrelevent since it will likely die in the Senate. Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray spent the spring negotiating a potential bipartisan HEA reauthorization bill. However, talks between parties stalled due to disagreements over a number of issues, including a federal-state partnership and how to address campus sexual assault.