“Ohio is a state where families earning $60,000 a year are subsidizing the private school tuition of families earning $300,000 a year,” Dan Heintz, educator and school board member. https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-02-03/education/debate-intensifies-over-oh-school-vouchers-as-trump-advocates-expansion/a95010-1 Originally posted to Facebook 2/3/25....
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Kansas Republicans push for massive school voucher tax credits. What about the budget?
We testified against SB 75 which turns opting kids out of public school into a new state tax giveaway with no strings attached. “But that doesn’t make S.B. 75 a good bill. Public schools are, as one opponent said, the “heart of Kansas communities.” Private school vouchers would weaken that heart. And probably put the state on shaky fiscal footing, to boot. It’s hard to see the upside.” Read more at: https://www.kansas.com/opinion/guest-commentary/article299329899.html Originally posted to Facebook 2/7/25....
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Leave a Comment New Date! Backpack Full of Cash Returns! Join us February 5th in Augusta!
Join us February 5th in Augusta! Learn about how vouchers harm students in this important film narrated by Matt Damon. This will start at 6:30 at the Augusta Historic Theater 523 State St, Augusta, KS 67010....
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“School Choice Week” is coming to Kansas and the rest of the country the last week of January. During that time, Koch-funded entities will trot kids donned in yellow scarves up to the Capitol in a well-funded and well-orchestrated event, but those same entities refuse every effort to infuse voucher bills with oversight, accountability or any kind of guardrails to protect vulnerable students. They promise a myth and do nothing to prevent the nightmare these programs deliver to state budgets, communities and public schools and their students. “The language of ‘choice’ around schools may be alluring in its...
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