More money for education

In Kelli Roger’s blog, “The Financial Factor in the Public Education System,”  she discusses concerns about Betsy DeVos School Choice program possibly being adopted. The School choice plan includes taking funds from an already tight budget for public education and use the funds to assist private and charter schools.  Kelli has a strong argument as to why she believes that the School Choice Program could be problematic under DeVos, and her numbers regarding attendance was confirmed on the National Center for Education Statistics  (NCES) website. It stated that about 50.4 million students started public elementary and only 5.2 were expected to start private school in the fall of 2016. So, after Trump cut the education budget from 68 billion to 59 billion, the School Choice program could take funding away from continued education for the teachers, the teachers’ salaries, and assistance for special ed, students with disabilities, and low-income students.

I share Kelli’s concerns with Betsy DeVos as our Secretary of Education, and I think Randi Weingarten is right when he said that Trump’s choice of Secretary of education, “makes it loud and clear that his education policy will focus on privatizing, defunding, and destroying public education in America.” I can see why Kelli quoted him in her blog, and I think our children’s education is very important, and needs serious budget increases, not decreases.