In a press release that accompanied the announcement by McMaster, a Republican, the governor's office said, \"These one-time, needs-based grants of up to $6,500 will help or subsidize the 2020-21 tuition for eligible students at participating private, parochial or independent schools in South Carolina. Approximately 5,000 grants will be funded.\"
DeVos triggered backlash last week by saying she was \"very seriously\" considering withholding federal funds from schools that fail to fully reopen in the fall despite the coronavirus still sickening Americans in record numbers. In an interview on \"Fox News Sunday,\" Trump echoed DeVos' threat.
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PHOTO: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a briefing at the Department of Education building in Washington, July 8, 2020.
\"Young people have to go to school, and there's problems when you don't go to school, too,\" Trump said. \"And there's going to be a funding problem because we're not going to fund when they don't open their schools. We're not going to fund them. We're not going to give them money if they're not going to school, if they don't open.\"
DeVos' rule outlines how local education departments must calculate the emergency funds to give an equitable share to students and teachers in private schools.
\"There is nothing in the law Congress passed that would allow districts to discriminate against children and teachers based on private school attendance and employment,\" DeVos said in a statement issued with her decision.
DeVos said the new rule recognizes that CARES Act money was not exclusively meant to benefit Title I public schools, or schools with large concentrations of low-income students.
She noted that most private schools are under financial strain due to COVID-19 because they're typically dependent on tuition from families and donations from their communities. She said more than 100 private schools across the country have announced they will not be able to reopen following the pandemic because of shrinking revenue sources.
But Johnson said private schools, including charter schools, have received tens of millions of dollars in emergency COVID-relief funds, including money through the federal Paycheck Protection Program forgivable loan program.
The NAACP lawsuit references a May 5 letter to DeVos from Carissa Moffat Miller, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers, objecting to the rule on distributing the CARES Act money, saying the move \"could significantly harm the vulnerable students who were intended to benefit the most from the critical federal COVID-19 education relief funds.\"
Miller said under DeVos' rule, for instance, private schools in Louisiana would receive at least 267% more funding under the Department of Education distribution formula.
Chicago Public Schools, which joined a lawsuit filed by the Michigan attorney general, said in a statement that they will lose about $10 million of an estimated $205 million they expected to receive under the CARES Act if DeVos' allocation plan stands.
\"The devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted low-income students of color and the Trump Administration is turning its back on these students in favor of wealthy private institutions by siphoning public funds away from the students who Congress intended to support,\" the Chicago Public Schools said in a written statement.
Johnson said the move by DeVos is consistent with her \"mission to starve public education and resources to benefit private educational settings.\"
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