Charter schools looking for federal start-up grants would face stricter requirements under new rules proposed by the Biden administration.
As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden proposed eliminating federal funding to support for-profit charter schools, and the proposed new rules go a long way to fulfilling that vow.
At the same time, the spending bill that cleared Congress this month keeps overall funding for the charter school program level at $440 million, as Biden requested in his budget. Grants are typically about $500,000 per school, and they have benefited about half of the existing charter schools.
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