Cory Booker on Friday announced a new education plan that says he opposes funding for private school vouchers and tax credits. There’s just one thing: Booker has been a longtime supporter of vouchers
highlighted how he served on pro-voucher boards in the past with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos but now thinks vouchers hurt educational equity.
But his plan says he now rejects public funding for vouchers and tax credits benefiting private schools. It includes this sentence, without elaboration: "Oppose public funding for vouchers and tax credits that take money away from public schools and send money to private schools."S. 213 , the “SOAR Reauthorization Act of 2019,” which would reauthorize funding for the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program, which is a private school voucher initiative.
His plan would allow “high-quality” charters to expand when they help meet local community needs and “modernize” the federal Charter School Program to ensure grant money also goes toward improving existing charter schools. He also would take steps to strengthen transparency and accountability for charter schools and oppose federal funding of for-profit charter schools.Despite the earlier alliance with DeVos, Booker’s plan highlights his fight against her nomination and “shameful policies.” The plan says that Booker would nominate an Education secretary who served as a public school teacher “and who understands the critical role that our public schools play in our society.
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