{"id":1322,"date":"2017-05-03T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/03\/trump-and-devos-opt-for-photo-over-real-progress-for-students\/"},"modified":"2017-05-03T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:28:00","slug":"trump-and-devos-opt-for-photo-over-real-progress-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-and-devos-opt-for-photo-over-real-progress-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and DeVos Opt for Photo Over Real Progress for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div lang=\"EN-US\" link=\"blue\" vlink=\"#954F72\">\n<div class=\"m_4727454966821976947WordSection1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Following President Trump and Secretary Betsy DeVos&rsquo; visit with local students, DNC spokesman Daniel Wessel released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&ldquo;Coming off the heels of their meaningless executive order last week, Trump and DeVos today took time out for a photo op with DC students to distract from their administration&#39;s real record with students: gutting the healthy lunch program, undoing student loan protections, and proposing cuts to after-school programs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>All this comes on the heels of yet another study demonstrating declining student achievement among voucher recipients:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>Washington Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/federal-study-of-dc-voucher-program-finds-negative-impact-on-student-achievement\/2017\/04\/27\/e545ef28-2536-11e7-bb9d-8cd6118e1409_story.html?utm_term=.06f71a39b112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"color:#0563c1\">Nation&rsquo;s only federally funded voucher program has negative effect on student achievement, study finds<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Students in the nation&rsquo;s only federally funded school voucher initiative performed worse on standardized tests within a year after entering D.C. private schools than peers who did not participate, according to a new federal analysis that comes as President Trump is seeking to pour billions of dollars into expanding the private school scholarships nationwide. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Martin West, a professor of education at Harvard, said the D.C. study adds to an emerging pattern of research showing declines in student achievement among voucher recipients, a departure from an earlier wave of research &mdash; often on smaller, privately funded scholarship programs &mdash; that skewed more positive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following President Trump and Secretary Betsy DeVos&rsquo; visit with local students, DNC spokesman Daniel Wessel released the following statement: &nbsp; &ldquo;Coming off the heels of their meaningless executive order last week, Trump and DeVos today took time out for a photo op with DC students to distract from their administration&#39;s real record with students: gutting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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