Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and her favored school choice policies lean to privatization. The White House’s preliminary budget proposal release contains billions of dollars in cuts for the public sector and a large portion of these funds will be spent to expand charter schools and private and religious school vouchers. This plan also sets aside even more to steer public schools toward choice-friendly policies. Funding for college work-study programs would be cut along with public-service loan forgiveness. Hundreds of millions of dollars that our schools now use to reduce class size, and provide mental health services for students would also be cut. (Entire article at washingtonpost.com/local/education/).
More information about privatized choice and how it affects our local schools can be found at washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet.
Contact your representatives with your opinion on the issue. Below are the U.S. representatives and phone numbers (Additional communication opportunity specifically for education issues networkforpubliceducation.org)
Senators:
- Pat Roberts: 202-224-4774 (Washington, D.C.) or 316-263-0416 (Wichita)
- Jerry Moran 202-224-6521 (Washington, D.C.) or 316-631-1410 (Wichita
Representative:
- Ron Estes: 202-225-6216 (Washington, D.C.) or 316-262-8992 (Wichita)