Exhibit Attachment 4, State of Washington v. DeVos, No. 2:20-cv-01119 (W.D. Wash.), Doc. 1-7 (July 20, 2020)
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Attachment 4, Doc. 1-7 in State of Washington v. DeVos, No. 2:20-cv-01119-BJR (W.D. Wash.), filed July 20, 2020. It is a printout of a POLITICO Morning Education newsletter item by Nicole Gaudiano dated 05/22/2020, titled Alexander, DeVos split on stimulus support for private school kids. The item states that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos defended her effort to boost the share of stimulus support for private school students, while Senate HELP Chairman Lamar Alexander expressed reservations about her interpretation of the emergency relief law. It reports that Alexander named limiting liability for colleges that reopen and greater flexibility for federal relief money as Republican priorities in any coronavirus relief package.
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Alexander, DeVos split on stimulus support for private school
kids
By NICOLE GAUDIANO | 05/22/2020 10:00 AM EDT
With help from Michael Stratford
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QUICK FIX
— Education Secretary Betsy DeVos defended her effort to boost the share of
stimulus support for private school students, even as Senate HELP Chairman Lamar
Alexander (R-Tenn.) expressed reservations of her interpretation of the emergency relief
law.
— Limiting liability for colleges that reopen this fall and providing greater flexibility
for federal relief money would be top Republican priorities in any coronavirus relief
package that the Senate takes up, Alexander said.
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— Colleges uneasy about standardized tests taken online from home this fall are
dropping their requirements for the exams, fueling a movement to eliminate the high-
stakes tests from admissions decisions altogether.
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D R I V I N G T H E D AY
ALEXANDER, DEVOS PART WAYS ON STIMULUS GUIDANCE: DeVos is now
getting pushback from Alexander for controversial guidance calling on school districts to
distribute stimulus funds to private school students more expansively than they would
under regular federal education aid through Title I.
— Her policy says schools should spend money on services for private school
students based on the total number of all students enrolled, rather than poverty levels.
— "My sense was that the money should have been distributed in the same way
we distribute Title I money,” Alexander told reporters on Thursday. “I think that's what
most of Congress was expecting.”
— DeVos defended her interpretation of the law when asked by POLITICO
during a video conference to respond to Alexander’s comments. "In our
implementation of Congress' action under the CARES Act, we have indicated it's our
interpretation that it is meant literally for all students and that includes students, no
matter where they're learning,” she said.
— DeVos later said that public schools should work with their private
counterparts to understand student needs and to help provide services, such as tutoring
or teacher professional development for teachers.
— Unions and education groups have urged DeVos to revise the guidance and
Jennifer McCormick, Indiana’s Republican state superintendent of public instruction,
announced last week that she would reject DeVos’ policy. “I will not play political agenda
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games with COVID relief funds,” McCormick said in a tweet. More from Michael Stratford
and your host.
— Alexander’s home state of Tennessee, however, intends to follow DeVos'
guidance to avoid jeopardizing its federal funding, FOX 17 Nashville reported.
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H I G H E R E D U C AT I O N
ALEXANDER EYES LIABILITY SHIELD FOR COLLEGES: Alexander told
reporters Thursday that it was an “open question of whether there’ll be more funding for
states and schools in a subsequent round of legislation.”
— If there is another round of coronavirus relief, Alexander said, Republicans
would “insist that liability protection be included for businesses, schools — otherwise we’re
not going to get back to work, back to college, back to school and out to eat.”
— Colleges have been lobbying Congress and the White House on legislation to
protect them against liability associated with reopening their campuses during the
pandemic. Alexander said he had heard directly from many college leaders on the issue.
— Another priority in any future coronavirus package, Alexander said, would be
providing greater flexibility to states and local governments on how they could use existing
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relief money. He cited a proposal by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) to allow states to use
CARES Act, H.R. 748 (116), relief money for operating expenses.
HOW THE CORONAVIRUS CONQUERED STANDARDIZED TESTS: The
University of California system, where regents voted Thursday to suspend the SAT and ACT
mandate through 2024 as the school attempts to develop its own test, joins some 80
colleges and universities that have announced they will not require standardized test scores
this fall, either permanently or temporarily, as the testmakers prepare for online exams if
high schools remain closed.
— The shift away from standardized tests means more colleges could base
admissions on students' GPA, high school courses and personal essays, and ease what
advocates see as longtime barriers for low-income and first-generation applicants. The
heads of the ACT and SAT, however, warn an emphasis on GPAs could lead to grade
inflation in well-to-do high schools, where parents can lobby teachers for better marks.
— Cheating is also a potential issue worrying colleges and universities, and
could be exacerbated by the online at-home exams, even as testmakers insist online exams
will be secure. Technical glitches plagued some online Advanced Placement exams last
week and parents and students have sued challenging the results.
— The testmakers say they are moving the tests online as a way to ensure students
have access to the high stakes admissions exams. They also say they’ve been working with
colleges and have been relying on their guidance during the development of the new
options. More from Bianca Quilantan.
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Rosproy, a public preschool teacher, on Thursday became the first early childhood educator
to be named National Teacher of the Year. She told POLITICO the pandemic has taught her
that “our kids need to have more individualized opportunities.”
— Rosproy said she wants to advocate for social and emotional learning and
quality early childhood education for all. Her message to President Donald Trump,
she said, is that she wants to bring teacher voices to the table for all measures that affect
students and teachers.
— White House coronavirus task forces have lacked representation from
educators. But Rosproy said the continuous learning plan in Kansas has been successful
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because it was led by teachers.
— “We've been able to serve families better, we've been able to serve teachers
better, because we have representatives who are on the ground floor of where the
needs are,” she said. “And so that that's what I think should happen all over the country.”
More from your host.
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fine and two years of supervised release with 100 hours of community service,
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— The American School Counselor Association announced that Executive Director Kwok-
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— A new GAO report found that campus climate surveys that examine sexual violence
occurring on individual college campuses have several strengths and limitations.
— The National Center for Education Statistics is out with the Condition of Education
2020, showing the overall college enrollment rate for 18- to 24-year-olds at undergraduate
or graduate institutions rose from 35 percent in 2000 to 41 percent in 2018. The
congressionally mandated report also shows educational attainment rates for 25- to 29-
year-olds increased at all levels between 2000 and 2019.
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coronavirus stabilization funds for schools.
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