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Feb 7, 2017

Dear Mr. President,

I just heard about your nominee for Secretary of Education. I read that she is a proponent of school choice and vouchers. I'm not so sure those are the best ideas. Where I grew up in Rural Illinois, there were no choices. There was only the public school in your district. Also, I read about an Academy that took vouchers and ran the school as a for-profit school. Money became the focus of the school, and children stopped receiving an education. They weren't even paying their teachers. I hope there's a plan for better oversight than there was in that case.

I also heard rumblings that she wants to get rid of the Department of Education and give control over to the states. Mr. President, I'm worried about that. If some states have more money than others, will their education be better than the poorer states? That doesn't seem very fair. And what about in Illinois. I'm from the rural part, and we don't see very much of the states money because of Chicago. I was also wondering about military families. See, overseas, we have DOD schools, but in the states, we don't have that option. What I'm worried about is a student working to fulfill one states requirements for graduation and then being horribly behind when they have to move to a different state. Any grade of student could be behind in any subject without a country-wide standard. Mr. President, I don't mean to complain, but I know quite a few people who are worried about their children with special needs. The Department of Education ensures that those children have the right to an education, but if it's gone, who will fight for them? Mr. President, I hope you'll think of all of our children when you make those decisions.

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