Department of Education ‘waging war’ on charter schools with new regulations, school choice advocate says

The Biden administration is waging war against charter schools through newly proposed rules that make it harder to obtain start-up grants, school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis told Fox News.

"The Biden administration is essentially waging war on charter schools," Corey DeAngelis, the American Federation for Children's national director of research, told Fox News. "But more importantly, the administration, through these regulations, is waging war on families who want these schools for their kids and that's absolutely atrocious."

Congress approved $440 million for the charter school program in its spending bill. One of the Department of Education's proposed changes, which were published March 12, would require applicants applying for grant money through that program to provide evidence of over-enrollment in existing traditional public schools.