'Chicago voters should know that DeVos supports Vallas' candidacy, and that there is no daylight between DeVos and Vallas' education agendas,' said il_fps.
Spotlighting the super PAC's outlay in Chicago's mayoral race, the advocacy group Illinois Families for Public Schools said in athat while"DeVos has not endorsed Vallas, Vallas' education plans for Chicago's school system are directly aligned with the DeVos agenda of school privatization, one she supported as secretary of education and promotes through her national network of advocacy organizations and PACs: defunding and dismantling public school systems and redirecting...
"Vallas voices his support for 'a reconstituted system in which parents get to direct the per-pupil public dollars to the school of their choosing'... Thecalls for 'dismantling the central administration' of CPS," the group continued."These are exactly the policy goals that DeVos and American Federation for Children are advocating for: 'fund students not systems' and 'dollars must follow students.
"As secretary of education, DeVos' education policies were harmful to public schools on a national scale," IFPS added."Chicago voters should know that DeVos supports Vallas' candidacy, and that there is no daylight between DeVos and Vallas' education agendas."
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