Some of the programs that have been recommended for scaling back or cutting are duplicative, some of them are ineffective, and some of them could better be supported by State, local, or philanthropic efforts.
Betsy DeVos
The Public Record
I totally agree with you that student debt and student loans are of grave concern.
We have not done a good job of helping students to know what their full menu of options are when pursuing higher education.
I do find that strange. And in fact, in the last administration, there was $7 billion invested specifically into schools that were failing or deemed failing to improve them, and there was absolutely zero outcome from that investment.
We should be shooting for excellence across the board, but in no way should it be a top-down, one size fits all solution from the Federal Government.
We believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children's schooling and education decisions.
In part, my support for educational choice is based on my strong belief in the power of markets and competition as drivers of educational quality and accountability.
We are not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.
The federal government has a moral obligation that no individual school district or state can advocate when it's regarding protecting children in school.