The Educational Choice for Children Act and cuts to the Department of Education

Lots of action on education news at the federal level this week - all we know (so far) is here

The most relevant news about education this week were from D.C.

I wrote about how the Educational Choice for Children Act would be a game changer for families in states that don’t have education freedom (yet). There is a real chance of this bill being approved and I have contacted my US Senators and Representative asking them to support this bill.

“Can families in these states choose the school they want for their children and be reimbursed by the government?”

The father who asked me this question during a talk in Syracuse last year could hardly believe my response. “Yes,” I replied, “there are now 14 states that offer school vouchers and 19 states that offer tax-credit scholarships.”

Please send me your questions and comments!

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Eduwonk had the best take on the hysteria around the cuts to the Department of Ed

Like everyone who cares about education, I am worried about how careful DOGE is looking at the Department of Education and if the cuts will go too far. There is so much hysteria about what the elimination of the DOE and what the cuts will mean. It seems that NAEP wont be cut, which is my biggest concern as of now.

Eduwonk had a very good reflection that I think is worth reading:

“I don’t like a lot of what’s happening, but if you don’t say anything when $190 billion is being thrown at schools with little effect, or kids are kept out of school for inordinate amounts of time, or educational chaos and batshit crazy ideas (having non-college Americans pay for relatively well-off people’s fancy college degrees, having schools make life decisions about young people in lieu of their parents, capping access to advanced classes in the name of equity, math is racist, etc..etc…) are normalized, then save the tears on $881 million in Institute for Education Sciences contracts being cut.”

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