Posted on 11/16/2020 9:04:00 PM PST by kiryandil
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos just got to the official end of the line with her efforts to divert $16 million in public school COVID-relief funding to private schools.
U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California James Donato signed a permanent injunction–made public Monday–that will formally end litigation begun last summer against the Department of Education (DOE). In July, Judge Donato, a Barack Obama appointee, quoted the late Justice Antonin Scalia when he called DeVos’s justification of the DOE’s pro-private school policy “interpretive jiggery-pokery in the extreme.”
The Congressional CARES Act earmarked approximately $16 billion to help elementary and secondary schools maintain their operations and provide effective education during the pandemic. Funds were to be distributed to both public and private schools; the amount allocated to private schools was, as has been the case historically, based on number of low-income students served by the private schools. The DOE under DeVos, though, issued a rule that would instead apportion funding based on total student enrollment. As a result, far more CARES funding would have found its way into private schools.
Michigan, California, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, the District of Columbia as well as public school districts in New York City, Chicago, Cleveland and San Francisco sued to block the DOE’s rule. In July, the court ruled against the DOE in a preliminary injunction; now, the lawsuit has come to its final end...
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Odiousbama "judge" Jimmy Donato from The New Supreme Court [Northern District of California] scores a win for his pals in the Resistance against President Trump.
Appeal it.
Long appeal process to follow.
Idiot forgot that the 9th Circus is now a conservative Circuit.
An Obama appointee with ties to Carter-era judges on the Ninth Circus.
Your Honor, I rest my case.
yes please appeal.
Maybe the 9th Circuit will reverse this, else the Supreme Court.
Enemies all around us, this is what the impostor a## hat in 8 years has brought us
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