Will DeVos' confirmation as Sec of Education increase applications to the top private schools?

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Anonymous wrote:No. None of the private schools in the top or middle tier are going to take these vouchers. #BelieveMe

Bullshit. It immediately stretches their financial aid. Even if an elite private only has a dozen low income kids, those kids are going to receive voucher checks for $1X,000 each. Solid $120,000-plus in free cash.

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#MakeSidwell/GDS/Cathedral Schools even richer than they are now.

Children of inner city low-income parents, refugees, and undocumented immigrants should be 50% of students at Sidwell, GDS, Cathedral to promote diversity and inclusiveness.

Lol. People attend Sidwell, GDS, and Cathedral to get away from these exact kids at their neighborhood schools.

This is a truly horrible statement.

It's the truth, and it applies to virtually all parents choosing private over public. There may be other reasons (e.g., the toxic testing culture), but avoiding the poor is one of the primary ones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Let me get this straight -- the OP seems to believe that the incoming Secretary of Education (she's still incoming until she's been sworn in) will somehow enact a school choice and voucher program that will immediately have impact at the state and local levels, and will have an immediate impact on private school tuition levels.

I'm just going to let that sink in for a moment.

In the meantime, let's consider this. The American institution that is public education is big. How big? Public schools employed over 3 million teachers in 2016. For comparison, the world's largest employer, Wal-Mart, employs 1.4 million people. The active duty U.S. military clocks in at 1.3 million.

What are the odds that Betsy De Vos, much less any other education activist, can have a lasting impact on public education given the size of the bureaucracy? Heck, the Department of Education reported just last month that the Obama Administration's effort to improve America's worst schools with an injection of $7 billion in federal cash had no effect.

So, back to OP's question. No. There is no chance her confirmation will directly increase private school tuition in either the greater Washington, DC area or anywhere else in the country. You can stop hyperventilating.

Uh, OP was asking about the # of applications, not the tuition.

duuuuuh. Increasing # of applications = increasing tuition. Do you know nothing about how supply and demand work??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. None of the private schools in the top or middle tier are going to take these vouchers. #BelieveMe

Bullshit. It immediately stretches their financial aid. Even if an elite private only has a dozen low income kids, those kids are going to receive voucher checks for $1X,000 each. Solid $120,000-plus in free cash.

Once a school takes state/taxpayer money, it is accountable to the state/fed govt for how those funds are used. The state can make rules that restrict academic freedom in those schools. School vouchers will be welcomed at some private schools, but none of the top independent schools. That is why they are independent!

Oh. So Beauvoir is not a top independent? You know not of what you speak. Google DC Opportunity Scholarship member schools.

Um, then follow that up with the question how many students at Beauvoir actually use the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship. Membership means nothing.

[Anonymous]

To answer the original question: of course not. DeVos doesn't have the power or influence as Sec'y of Education that you think she does. You are all still drinking the NEA Kool-Aid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To answer the original question: of course not. DeVos doesn't have the power or influence as Sec'y of Education that you think she does. You are all still drinking the NEA Kool-Aid

My company is a government contractor and the Dept. of Ed. is a major client. Oh, yes she does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only spill over effect I can see is on specialized schools, such as River, Lab, Commonwealth, etc. If a child with SN, whether a disability, learning or behavioral issue, that normally would have an IEP in a public school is unable to get the same level of support then the parents may make the jump to private. But as for the big 3 or other mainstream schools, no.

Commonwealth cannot/does not accept public funds.