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Politics Unplugged Podcast: Headlines with Stacy Pearson and Marcus Dell’Artino
If you want a good cry, Sarah Damoff knows…
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https://www.europesays.com/3091324/ Politics Unplugged Podcast: Headlines with Stacy Pearson and Marcus Dell’Artino #america #ArizonaLegislature #ArizonaPolitics #BallotMeasures #EsaVouchers #FireUnion #geopolitics #KatieHobbs #PoliceUnion #Politics #PoliticsUnplugged #PublicEducation #SchoolFunding #SchoolVouchers #SpecialSession #TaxpayerMoney #TeachersUnion #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UnitedStatesPolitics #US #USPolitics #USA #UsaPolitics
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As Indiana schools debate referendums to make up funding cuts, and private schools take more public money, one IU lecturer lost her job for pointing out that 'MAGA' is covert wyt supremacy.
Well, so is school privatization.
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Rep. #GwenMoore wants to repeal a federal tax credit that helps fund private #SchoolVouchers. Public dollars should strengthen public schools, not subsidize private education while neighborhood schools fight for resources. #Wisconsin’s kids deserve better.
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🦡 Bluesky Post (under 300 characters): Rep. #GwenMoore wants to repeal a federal tax credit that helps fund private #SchoolVouchers. Public dollars should strengthen #PublicSchools, not subsidize private education while neighborhood schools fight for resources. #Wisconsin’s kids deserve better.
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Mom moved to Texas and took another $30k from Arizona for school vouchers
'“She moved to Texas and she didn’t bother to tell us and so she kept getting ESA money,” Horne said.'
So vouchers aren't needs based and you don't need to prove you're eligible. That explains why Horne lets school voucher money be used for bikinis and vacations
https://www.azfamily.com/2026/05/29/arizona-mom-pleads-guilty-esa-fraud-after-moving-texas/
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Trump’s school funding scheme kicks in soon. It’ll send us back to the 1800s.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/95402/ Trump’s school funding scheme kicks in soon. It’ll send us back to the 1800s. #DepartmentOfEducation #DonaldTrump #Education #kids #SchoolVouchers #taxes #teens #Trump
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https://www.europesays.com/3032097/ Trump’s school funding scheme kicks in soon. It’ll send us back to the 1800s. #DepartmentOfEducation #DonaldTrump #education #kids #SchoolVouchers #taxes #teens #trump
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School choice programs grow in popularity — and cost A further boost is expected next year, when the federal government rolls out a new policy allowing taxpayers to claim a tax credit for up to $...
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92% of private schools already enrolled in Texas’ voucher programs serving kids beyond kindergarten are religious. @TexasObserver found many of these exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids. #TxEd #TxLege #TexasSchools #ProtectPublicSchools #SchoolVouchers https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-voucher-schools-openly-discriminate/
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Texas comptroller seeks answers on school voucher exclusions
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(20 Nov) Tennesseans challenge state’s private-school voucher program https://s.faithcollapsing.com/s768l #american-civil-liberties-union-on-tennessee #commissioner-lizette-gonzalez-reynolds #education #gov.-bill-lee #legal #school-vouchers #southern-poverty-law-center
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The latest opposition to #SchoolVouchers is coming from rural conservatives in #Tennessee. https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/tenn-lawmaker-says-out-of-state-pac-spent-2-5m-on-attack-ads-against-him-warns-future-candidates
#Resist #fascism (#socialism for #billionaires and #tyranny for everyone else) and support #PublicEducation.
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"Florida officials created a universal school voucher plan – and now they’re furious that Islamic schools are participating
A basic rule of American church-state law is that government must treat all religions equally. If a benefit is extended to one faith group, it must be made available to all. A law that establishes a special program but limits it to Christian churches will not pass constitutional muster.
Amazingly, the attorney general of Florida does not seem to understand this.
James Uthmeier, who is, let’s remember, the top legal official in the state, recently went on a tear because he is apparently just learning that Islamic schools are taking part in the state’s private school voucher program."
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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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New federal school voucher program poses a quandary for Pa. and other states: Opt in or opt out? That decision now looms largest in blue states, where Democratic governors and lawmakers must weigh ...
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From AP News.com: Republican plan for nationwide private school vouchers deemed in violation of Senate rules
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Even if you don't have kids in school yourself, even if you don't have kids at all, it's more than worthwhile to attend your local school board meetings. https://hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-7-why-public-schools-are?r=1rtvr5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
The kids in school right now are going to be running things in a few years. They need to be literate and definitely not indoctrinated by the xtian nationalists.
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Segregation Academies Get Millions From School Voucher Programs — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-academies-school-voucher-money-north-carolina
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From NPR.org: What to know about Republicans’ big, private-school voucher plan
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5397175/trump-federal-voucher-private-school
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The moment Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has long been waiting for has finally arrived. The Republican will host a bill signing ceremony Saturday afternoon for Senate Bill 2 at the governor's mansion in Austin.
#Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Texas #EducationSavingsAccounts #GregAbbott #PrivateSchoolVouchers #PublicSchool #SchoolVouchers #TexasSchoolVouchers
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A measure that would create a school voucher program in Texas has passed the legislature and is heading to Abbott's office for his approval.
#Education #News #Politics #DanPatrick #GregAbbott #SchoolVouchers
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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/
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The Texas House is currently debating Senate Bill 2 on the floor. If passed, the contentious proposal would create a $1 billion dollar Education Savings Account plan allowing parents to use public funds towards private school tuition.
#Education #News #Politics #DustinBurrows #GregAbbott #K12Education #KUT #PreK #PresidentDonaldTrump #SchoolFunding #SchoolVouchers #TeacherPay
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The Texas House on Wednesday is poised to debate a contentious bill that would create a voucher program where public funds could be used towards private schools.
#Education #News #Politics #KUT #PublicSchool #SchoolFunding #SchoolVouchers #TexasHouseOfRepresentatives
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After nearly 15 hours of discussion and animated debate, the Texas House approved a $337 billion budget for the next two years on a 118-26 vote.
#News #Politics #DustinBurrows #KUT #PropertyTaxes #SchoolFunding #SchoolVouchers #StateBudget #TexasHouseOfRepresentatives
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Two key pieces of education legislation cleared preliminary hurdles in the Texas House on Thursday, but not before sparking spirited debate among lawmakers, including complaints about a lack of transparency around the process.
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The Texas House Public Education Committee was scheduled to meet on Tuesday to take up two high priority bills which would address school funding and the creation of a school voucher plan. But the meeting was canceled late Monday night.
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