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Faygo Kid

(21,494 posts)
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 07:43 PM Sep 2020

Judge strikes down DeVos plan to boost pandemic relief for private schools

Source: Politico

A federal judge on Friday ruled that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ effort to boost the amount of emergency pandemic relief that flows to private school students is illegal and struck down the policy.

U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, an appointee of President Donald Trump, ruled that DeVos ran afoul of the CARES Act when she required public schools to send a greater share of pandemic assistance to private school students than is typically required under federal law.

The judge sided with the NAACP, which had brought the legal challenge against DeVos’ policy, criticizing it as a ploy to divert emergency aid away from needy public schools toward more affluent private-school students.

Several other judges had already preliminarily blocked DeVos’ rule in certain states, but Judge Friedrich’s ruling — which is final — goes further in striking down the entire rule as illegal. The ruling will apply nationwide. . .



Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/04/devos-private-school-relief-rule-struck-down-409272



Poor Betsy. Looks like our taxpayer dollars will, at least in this case, go to the schools that need them.
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Judge strikes down DeVos plan to boost pandemic relief for private schools (Original Post) Faygo Kid Sep 2020 OP
May Betsy DeVos accidentally fall into a vat of Amway ammonia and never be heard from again. BKDem Sep 2020 #1
If you can afford to send your kid to Private school it's doesn't need a federal bailout kimbutgar Sep 2020 #2
A tRump appointed judge too. BigmanPigman Sep 2020 #3
... demmiblue Sep 2020 #4
Cruella DeVos can't be too happy Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 #5

BKDem

(1,733 posts)
1. May Betsy DeVos accidentally fall into a vat of Amway ammonia and never be heard from again.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 07:47 PM
Sep 2020

No gurgling, Bets.

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