Support schools

Regarding “Trump targets feds’ role in education” (Page A7, April 27), charter school crusader and religious extremist, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who has pledged to use her position to “advance God’s Kingdom,” has budgeted $400 million for school “choice” vouchers and another $1 billion to “push public schools to adopt choice-friendly policies.”

By “school choice,” of course, DeVos and Trump mean “allowing affluent white families to use taxpayer dollars to send their children to private religious schools with questionable approaches to scientific education” and deprive schools serving low-income students of desperately needed resources.

Public education is important, and must be supported and funded. The Washington Post has obtained the details of President Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ first education budget proposal, and it spells disaster for our children’s future.

There is only one federally funded school choice voucher program, in Washington D.C., and a recent Department of Education analysis found that the students in those charter schools performed worse on testing than children who attended public schools. This is unacceptable and must be stopped!

Pat Owen, Pearland