By Evie Blad on March 27, 2020 8:52 PM Education Week
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said Friday that she would encourage Congress to provide “microgrants” to help teachers with online learning during coronavirus-related school closures and to help “the most disadvantaged students in states or communities where their school system has simply shut down.”
“I’ve always believed education funding should be tied to students, not systems, and that necessity has never been more evident,” DeVos said, echoing an argument she has used to promote a federal tax-credit scholarship plan that would fund private school tuition and other educational materials.