#schoolchoice — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #schoolchoice, aggregated by home.social.
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Your occasional reminder that, whether you call yourself a #democrat or a #republican, a #green, really any #political label that isn't #authoritarian....you probably already agree with the #libertarian people around you about a lot.
Do you support #gay marriage? We do too, and we did a long time before any major political party did.
Do you want poor people to have #schoolchoice, like rich people have always had? Libertarians have been proposing that for decades.
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Thousands of Tulsa families received $70M in private school tax credits last year. Parents say it makes a huge difference.
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Yet another example of people seeing the actions of the state and blaming them on capitalism.
This is one of the reasons I support #schoolchoice. #Government run #schools just produce too many economically (and actually) illiterate people for society to be healthy and well-functioning.
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"The #school the #government provides is terrible! We should give them more #taxpayer money! #schoolchoice is terrible!"
"The #police service the government provides is terrible! We should give them less taxpayer money or even #defund them...THAT will surely improve the quality!"
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@Kirsty Spot on – but this is straight out of the USA blueprint.
Howard's privatisation push (scrapping New Schools Policy, flooding private schools with public cash) mirrors US "school choice" reforms that boost charters/vouchers while starving public systems. Goal? Keep the masses under-educated, divided, and less likely to challenge the elite.
All we need now is to ditch compulsory voting (like most of the US), and watch the systematic sell-off of what's left of our public assets accelerate – no pesky informed voter turnout to stop it.
Education as a two-tier racket, democracy next? Not on my watch.
#Australia #EducationPrivatisation #SchoolChoice #USModel #CompulsoryVoting #PublicAssets #Inequality #CostOfLivingCrisis #Sydney -
ICYMI - EDITORIAL: Cringe and bear it. Polis right to OK federal school tax credits for state
'The choice is simple. Policymakers can embrace an opportunity to bring more federal resources into Colorado classrooms or leave those dollars to flow elsewhere'
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ICYMI - EDITORIAL: Cringe and bear it. Polis right to OK federal school tax credits for state
'The choice is simple. Policymakers can embrace an opportunity to bring more federal resources into Colorado classrooms or leave those dollars to flow elsewhere'
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EDITORIAL: Cringe and bear it. Polis right to OK federal school tax credits for state
'The program is, indeed, “voucher-like,” as critics and supporters have both pointed out. But it is not a voucher system. Polis is correct to draw that distinction'
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EDITORIAL: Cringe and bear it. Polis right to OK federal school tax credits for state
'The program is, indeed, “voucher-like,” as critics and supporters have both pointed out. But it is not a voucher system. Polis is correct to draw that distinction'
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8:28[1] Yes giving parents choice in how they raise their children will differ from how you would want them to raise your children. Be very careful with what you ask for when granting others to enforce your view of the world onto others. #homeschool #schoolchoice #libertarian #liberty
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1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJO_xCw35WI&lc=UgzsTTONPgzvdy3kpyB4AaABAg&s=508
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The GOP’s #SchoolChoice plan aims to privatize #schools and limit access for marginalized kids, while Democrats lack a clear #education vision and are losing trust.
#CommunitySchools—where families and communities have a say and kids get more support—are showing real success in places like #Durham and #Milwaukee.
If Democrats back this approach, they could regain their edge on education and help improve schools for everyone.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-democrats-should-be-talking-about-community-schools/
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Too MAGA For MAGA: Ryan Walters Preps For Criminal Defense, Gets Shunned By Linda McMahon
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>So far, 48 charter operators—which are required to be nonprofits, governmental entities, or higher education institutions—have received at least $735 million in state and federal funds (passed through the school districts) under the program SB 1882 inaugurated, which came to be called “Texas Partnerships.” These operators largely control the budgets and operations of the public schools they helm.
The nonprofit distinction is pointless when those nonprofits are permitted to funnel the vast majority of their income to for-profit entities that do the actual education work.
>Under most Texas Partnership contracts, school districts retain the responsibility to maintain facilities, furniture, and equipment, offer transportation and meals to students, and provide special education services, but they give up control over administration, curriculum, and budgets.
Textbook case of privatize the profits and socialize the costs.
>In response to an Observer question about the Beaumont school’s academic performance, a spokesperson for Green Dot Public Schools noted via email that its related organization, Green Dot Public Schools Southeast Texas, ran the school and was dissolved in June 2024, adding: “We do not have additional background or context that we can provide.”
Its *shell company*. Call it what it is.
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An interesting thought experiment: what if teachers collectively chose to form these non-profits themselves? And ran the schools as they saw fit? Education co-ops, perhaps.
>Shelly Haney, a longtime educator, turned Midland ISD’s Goddard Junior High from an F-rated to a C-rated school as principal from 2013 to 2019. That’s why, in 2019, then-superintendent Orlando Riddick asked her, while she was still Goddard’s principal, to start a nonprofit and apply for a Texas Partnership contract to run the school in addition to Bunche Elementary School and later other elementaries, Haney said. The charter organization would be called the REACH Network.
Yay! So it's been tried at least.
>But Haney ran into the same obstacles that her predecessors at Bunche had faced: community poverty, low teacher retention, and then COVID-19. There were early signs of trouble when Bunche’s new principal quit in September 2019, four weeks after the school year started. Three more principals left during the four years REACH was in operation. Amid teacher shortages that got worse during the pandemic, Midland ISD waived certification requirements —as allowed under state law—and there were fewer experienced teachers available in the district’s hiring pool to help carry out reforms, Haney told the Observer.
So there is no Stand and Deliver magic formula to addressing poverty, I take it. For this approach to work, the co-op will need broader political and economic support.
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>There’s also no record that School Innovation Collaborative applied for federal tax-exempt status in the Internal Revenue Service database. San Antonio ISD terminated its contract early with the organization in 2023. CEO Doug Dawson did not respond to the Observer’s request for comment.
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>Colbert described those kinds of paperwork issues as red flags. “These are public tax dollars that are going to pay these people, and there are requirements of the law that they’re not meeting,” he said.What in the actual fuck? That's a red flag alright. But it's a red flag for the boards inking the contracts. We're talking absolutely basic, due diligence 101 shit here.
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>Regarding Texas Partnership operators in general, Quinzi, the teachers union legal counsel, said: “They’re going to put as much money into their pockets and the least amount of money in the classroom.”
At least the union rep knows how to tell it like it is. All of the trustees and politicians quoted in this article keep dancing around the core contradiction.
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Finally: this article was very heavy in data. It needed graphs. Badly. But seeing as we're going to be implementing similar bad ideas on a much larger scale going forward here in Texas, the author is at least not going to be lacking in data for the foreseeable future.
#Texas #txlege #vouchers #education #SchoolVouchers #SchoolChoice #txpol #CharterSchools #NPIC #501c3 #NonProfit #NonProfitIndustrialComplex
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Ohio gives private & charter kids guaranteed bus rides—while some public school students get nothing. Driver shortage or not, that’s the law. #Ohio #SchoolChoice #education https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/ohio-private-charter-school-buses
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When families refuse to leave ‘failing public schools’ for charters and vouchers, what’s next?
#education #schoolchoice
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Texas is almost certainly getting school vouchers — Senate Bill 2 has passed in the state’s House and is likely to have a fairly smooth passage to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. It’s the culmination of a 30-year battle that has until now been blocked by Democrats and rural Republicans.
@TexasObserver takes a look at how it happened. Zeph Capo, the president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers, said in a statement: “Greg Abbott relied on a last ditch phone call from Donald Trump to bully Republican lawmakers to fall in line.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-trump-house-vouchers-pass/
#Education #SchoolVouchers #SchoolChoice #GregAbbott #DonaldTrump #USA #Texas #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Without exception, every single person I've ever met who both understood and supported #qualifiedimmunity was someone to whom it applies. #police, #teachers, everyone who knows what it is and supports it stands to benefit from it.
It's one of the reasons I support #schoolchoice; teachers in private school stand to be held accountable if they violate the civil rights of your children. Government teachers do not.
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In 2022, about 5.7 million people under the age of 18 were enrolled in #school of some kind the the US (https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2022/demo/school-enrollment/2022-cps.html)
The #Federal Department of #Education, spent a hair over $614 BILLION that year (https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-education?fy=2022).
Assuming fully half that goes to programs for those over 17...does anyone seriously think that, if we just took the $50K+ PER PUPIL that that amounts to for K-12 and just gave it to families to spend on education, that our outcomes would be worse? #schoolchoice
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School vouchers sure are good for someone — but it’s not necessarily kids. Here’s @TexasObserver on how in the Lone Star state, the push for school choice could provide a huge payday for private contractors. These certified educational assistance organizations (CEAO) will act as middlemen between the state, parents and private schools — for a fee, of course.
https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-vendors-millions-legislature/
#SchoolChoice #SchoolVouchers #Education #Texas #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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#nyc #HighSchool #NYCDoe offers came out today for my younger kid.
We have " #SchoolChoice " / aka publicly-sourced segregating.
I feel extremely proud of my kiddo who worked HARD to do well on the entry tests.
I feel relief that for the first (and yet, ONLY ) time in either of my kids experiences with this system, this kid actually has pretty good choices.
Its blended with a sense of guilt - because most kids don't get this experience.
If you know anything of high schools in NYC, how would you compare :
Fordham Prep
Columbia Secondary
HSAS LehmanAt least this typically MOST stressful activity for parents and families of 13-year-olds in NYC is nearly over.
And now, it can provide a welcome distraction of something else for my family to obsess about for the next couple of weeks anyhow.
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One of Trump's executive orders boosts school choice by allowing public funds to go to private schools. But law professors warn vouchers drain public school budgets, especially in rural areas, and make hiring qualified teachers harder. And don’t improve student outcomes.
https://theconversation.com/trump-order-boosts-school-choice-but-theres-little-evidence-vouchers-lead-to-smarter-students-or-better-educational-outcomes-249138 #SchoolChoice #SchoolVouchers #education