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Betsy DeVos Backtracks on Remote Learning Options She Had Championed

Has Education Secretary Betsy DeVos cooled on remote learning?

DeVos has recently called for school buildings across the country to fully reopen, threatened to find ways to withhold funding from schools that stick with full-time remote learning, and derided the Fairfax County district in Virginia for its plan to combine in-person and virtual instruction.

For many in the education world, these comments from DeVos come as a big surprise. The secretary was an enthusiastic supporter of virtual education earlier in the pandemic—before President Donald Trump started putting pressure on school districts this month to reopen buildings and return to in-person instruction for the 2020-21 academic year.

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/07/27/betsy-devos-backtracks-on-remote-learning-options.html?cmp=eml-enl-eu-news1&M=59629722&U=2050105&UUID=42d8eaa0e1fd83d2d422f1841ef2e9b9

 

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