You really have to wonder what kind of people would look at a child in the third grade that can't read, knowing that that problem will put them on a trajectory towards prisons, and start building prisons rather than come up with some literacy programs to get them back on another trajectory.
Scott criticizes prioritizing prisons over literacy programs for struggling children.
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Will actually contribute to the creation of miles of bureaucratic red tape, inconsistent education policy and enforcement across the federal government and a significant waste of the taxpayers’ money.
Instead, they’re forced to deal with uncertainty and chaos created by an administration that has systematically weakened the federal student aid system.
The repeal represents the federal government walking away from that responsibility, which jeopardizes the hard-fought progress we have made.
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