Thread: Let's highlight one aspect of DeVos' push to make COVID aid broadly available to private school students.
Betsy DeVos' guidance says CARES money, including equitable services $ for private school students, is legally not Title I money. That is correct.
However ...
Betsy DeVos' guidance says CARES money, including equitable services $ for private school students, is legally not Title I money. That is correct.
However ...
It's important for schools and others to know that in the guidance, DeVos' department highlights all the ways in which equitable services under he CARES Act *must* follow the rules laid out in Title I.
It's a relatively long list.
It's a relatively long list.
The sticking point, of course, is the one major aspect where DeVos says that equitable services under the CARES Act *must not* follow the rules laid out in Title I.
That aspect is: Who is eligible for equitable services? http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2020/05/devos-covid-aid-private-school-students-rule.html
That aspect is: Who is eligible for equitable services? http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2020/05/devos-covid-aid-private-school-students-rule.html
The guidance from the Education Department on this issue, and the source for the images I included in this thread, is here: https://oese.ed.gov/files/2020/04/FAQs-Equitable-Services.pdf