Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Civil Rights Groups to Congress: Betsy DeVos is Approving Plans That Violate ESSA

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is approving plans that fly in the face of the Every Student Succeeds Act's protections for vulnerable children, according to more than a dozen civil rights groups, including the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
The groups sent a letter Tuesday to Democratic and Republican leaders on the House and Senate education committees asking them to tell DeVos to stop approving "unlawful" plans.
"We call on you to fulfill your role in ESSA's implementation and to correct the Department of Education's flawed approval of state plans that do not comply core equity provisions of the law," the groups wrote to Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., as well as Reps. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., and Bobby Scott, D-Va.
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