Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) rolled out her plan for K-12 education this October. In her writing, the Democratic presidential front runner talks about the various steps to transform the country’s elementary, middle, and high schools, but it is the one proposal to shut down the U.S. Department of Education’s Charter Schools Program (CSP) that draws much attention.
In the plan, which is referred to as “A Great Public School Education for Every Student,” Warren calls CSP, a series of federal grants established to create new charter schools, an “abject failure. ”As President, I would eliminate this charter school program and end federal funding for the expansion of charter schools,” Warren wrote. Citing a 2019 report from a New York-based advocacy group, she accuses the Education Department of wasting up to $1 billion of federal funds on dysfunctional charter schools.
