When the DeVos is outside Washington, she is advocate for reading. Once back inside the Beltway, she ducks into a backroom and champions radical cuts.
When I was 7, I sat in my second-grade classroom crying because I couldn’t read as well as my classmates. Now I’m a member of Congress.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visits a yeshiva, the Darchei Torah Boys School, in Far Rockaway, Queens, last May. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images DeVos also claimed that lagging improvements to literacy rates mean that these programs don’t work. She’s just wrong. The first program she wants to cut, Innovative Approaches to Literacy, literally helps school libraries provide more books to kids. Giving more books to children obviously increases literacy. The other grant program, Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy, helps states come up with plans to teach more kids to read. And they work.
Fortunately, Congress has the power of the purse, and people like DeVos don’t have full rein to slash and burn our education system. Any final budget will have to go through the House, and I’m ready to make sure we don’t allow such cuts to hurt our kids’ futures.
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