But here is what she could do to actually help America's students.
It’s Groundhog Day at the Department of Education. To the surprise of no one, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ testimony to Congress this week—and over the past month—has demonstrated her tone-deafness toward the realities facing our public education system. Her solution? Promote narrow-minded policy that focuses on diverting taxpayer funds from public schools to advance a school choice agenda.
Although Secretary DeVos claims her focus on vouchers and school choice will pave the way for widespread, positive outcomes for students, she does so in the absence of consistent, persuasive evidence. Our recent, longitudinal study represents just one piece of research showing that low-income students do not benefit any more from attending private school than if they were to enroll in their neighborhood school.
In reality, these are thinly-veiled efforts to siphon taxpayer dollars from public schools—even though there is zero support for the notion that private or parochial schooling is superior to public education. Yet, as the Secretary approaches the two-year mark in her tenure, she still has time to elevate—rather than continually seek to de-fund—evidence-based policies in afterschool, K-12 literacy instruction, and social-emotional learning that actually assure student success.
Rather, the Department is inert, even as the field hemorrhages talent. Instead of ignoring the challenge at hand, Secretary DeVos should initiate the charge, encouraging states to use new federal flexibility in an effort to provide supports, resources, and incentives that can stem the loss of effective educators.
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