Betsy DeVos, a longtime advocate of alternatives to public schools, has announced more than $300 million from the coronavirus rescue package will go toward grants for home schooling and work-based learning programs.
a $5 billion"Education Freedom Scholarship" program, which would have used federal tax credits to support, essentially, a voucher program that families could use both for private schools and home schooling.
While this week's announcement is significant for the policy directions it signals, it's a comparatively small amount of money. Education groups
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