Teachers union wants additional $116.5 billion in bailout money

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The Center Square

(The Center Square) – According to a new analysis by the National Education Association (NEA), “the nation stands to lose 1.89 million education jobs over the next three years,” and as a result, states need an additional $116.5 billion in bailout money from the federal government in addition to money they have already received through the CARES Act.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has sought to direct some of the federal stimulus money allocated to education to include private schools. The NEA accused DeVos’s attempt as an example of using the coronavirus as an excuse to steer “hundreds of millions of dollars in public money away from public schools and students, and into private businesses and corporations.”

 

Larry Sand, president of the non-profit California Teachers Empowerment Network, argues, “It’s interesting to note that the teachers unions have not come out with any opposition to the Feds helping any private businesses, only private school businesses.

 

“Good people can disagree whether or not the federal government should be doling out any additional money to schools,” Sand adds. “But if it does, it should not discriminate against privately educated students and their struggling families.”

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Here are some things I want

 

 

 

 

I think the Federal Government should give them to me.