Amid staggering nationwide learning loss, the Biden administration’s move to forgive billions in student loan debt could have been better spent towards other education initiatives to improve severe academic decline post-pandemic, a former U.S. Department of Education official told Fox News.
“If we did have $39 billion waiting around to be spent, there is a much better use of that, and it means getting students up to speed in the educational basics that will serve them for a lifetime,” Angela Morabito, spokesperson for the Defense of Freedom Institute, said. “It means making sure that every student in America can read, write, do math and understand science and history at a very high level.”
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“That’s what American education can and should be,” she said. “It’s distressing that we’re not there.”
The Biden administration announced that $39…
