President Trump’s newfound disdain for online education is a sharp departure from what his administration and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have long championed in terms of policy on virtual learning
“It’s not a matter of if schools should reopen, it’s simply a matter of how,” DeVos has repeated several times in recent weeks as she’s become a main spokesperson for the Trump administration’s push to reopen schools. Schools, she has said, “must fully open and they must be fully operational.”
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos listens as Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a roundtable discussion in Tiger Stadium on the LSU campus. | AP Photo/Gerald Herbert Kevin Chavous, the longtime Democratic education reformer who previously served on the board of DeVos’ school choice advocacy organization, the American Federation for Children, is now a top executive at K12.The administration has generally been supportive of parent choice,” Chavous said, but he acknowledged that message “feels more scrambled when you try to truncate the choice options into an either/or decision” between fully online and brick-and-mortar options.
Chavous said K12 Inc. has seen “unprecedented” interest from school districts and parents since the start of the pandemic, adding that the company is looking to hire 1,300 new teachers.
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