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| Subject: Education Secretary DeVos speaks in Missouri, calls her federal tax credit plan “the conservative, federalist cure for what plagues American education” Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:24 pm | |
| Federal Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos made a quick visit to Jefferson City Monday to give the keynote speech for the Federalist Society, a group of libertarian-leaning scholars, lawyers, and lawmakers. DeVos pitched the administration’s Education Freedom Scholarship, funded by private sponsors who in turn get dollar-for-dollar tax credits, capped at $5 billion per year. “It’s the conservative, federalist cure for what plagues American education. Its doesn’t grow the federal bureaucracy one tiny bit, doesn’t create a new federal office of school choice, it doesn’t impose any new requirements on states or on families, it doesn’t take a single dollar from public school students, doesn’t spend a single dollar of federal money, and it doesn’t entangle schools with federal strings or stifling red tape,” she told the group gathered in House Chambers for a day-long conference.
Listen to speech (13:10)
https://www.missourinet.com/2020/01/27/education-secretary-devos-speaks-in-missouri-calls-her-federal-tax-credit-plan-the-conservative-federalist-cure-for-what-plagues-american-education-audio/ |
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