A day earlier, Democrats on the committee released written responses from DeVos to questions that they had posed to her. Across the nation, charter schools do not serve all children, contrary to her remarks. Most disturbing was DeVos’s blind support for virtual charter schools, which have a horrible track record. Murray’s staffers noted recent research on the abysmal academic performance of virtual charter schools, and DeVos flatly denied the evidence. She then pointed to seven virtual academies with four-year cohort graduation rates of 90 percent or above: Idaho Virtual Academy (90 percent); Nevada Virtual Academy (100 percent); Ohio Virtual Academy (92 percent); Oklahoma Virtual Charter Academy (91 percent); Texas Virtual Academy (96 percent); Utah Virtual Academy (96 percent); and Wisconsin Virtual Academy (96 percent).

Source: Washington Post February 01, 2017 22:03 UTC