Biden to force charter schools to close

A former Department of Education official said a proposed regulation restricting federal funding for public charter schools could force a number of schools to close their doors.
On March 11, the Biden administration’s Department of Education announced a new regulatory proposal regarding the use of federal funds for public charter schools that places significant restrictions on the disbursement of funding to the schools while also mandating new demographic reporting requirements.

Robert Eitel, a former Department of Education official and the president and founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute, told the Washington Examiner in an interview that if the rule were adopted, then “it [would] have a chilling effect on new charter schools and make it difficult for existing ones to continue.”
“There’s been an ideological realignment within the Democratic Party that is reflected in this in these priorities,” Eitel said. “This is confirmation that the Democratic Party has shifted hard to the left on education issues and that they’re no longer supportive of the charter school.”
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The proposed regulations specifically target charter schools whose governing nonprofit organization contracts most day-to-day operations to a for-profit company. Such schools, while managed by for-profit education management organizations, a …

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