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(CNSNews.com) – Days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the U.S. Department of Education released a devastating critique of its $7 billion School Improvement Grants (SIG) program.
The now defunct SIG program first began under President George W. Bush and later became a key part of the Obama administration's efforts to improve student achievement at hundreds of the nation’s lowest-performing public schools
“The findings presented in this report do not lend much support for the SIG program having achieved this goal,” the report concluded.
“Overall, across all grades, we found that implementing any SIG-funded model had no significant impacts on math or reading test scores, high school graduation, or college enrollment.”
Proponents of school choice are pointing to the report as evidence that spending billions of dollars on public education does not guarantee that disadvantaged children will receive a quality education.
“President Obama and his education team inadvertently handed President Trump, education secretary-designee Betsy DeVos and other school choice advocates an enormous parting gift: The now-documented failure of the administration’s massive ‘school turnaround’ program offers a convincing argument for empowering disadvantaged families with more education options – exactly what Trump and DeVos have in mind,” Andy Smarick, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, noted in a recent op-ed.
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Coulda built 700 miles of fence with this money.
The now defunct SIG program first began under President George W. Bush and later became a key part of the Obama administration's efforts to improve student achievement at hundreds of the nation’s lowest-performing public schools
“The findings presented in this report do not lend much support for the SIG program having achieved this goal,” the report concluded.
“Overall, across all grades, we found that implementing any SIG-funded model had no significant impacts on math or reading test scores, high school graduation, or college enrollment.”
Proponents of school choice are pointing to the report as evidence that spending billions of dollars on public education does not guarantee that disadvantaged children will receive a quality education.
“President Obama and his education team inadvertently handed President Trump, education secretary-designee Betsy DeVos and other school choice advocates an enormous parting gift: The now-documented failure of the administration’s massive ‘school turnaround’ program offers a convincing argument for empowering disadvantaged families with more education options – exactly what Trump and DeVos have in mind,” Andy Smarick, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, noted in a recent op-ed.
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Coulda built 700 miles of fence with this money.