re: Democrats are picking the wrong battle by going nuts over DeVos

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She's a perfect example for how donating to Republicans can make them ignore your lack of qualifications for a Cabinet-level position.

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Did you vote for Hillary?

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NCLB. Head Start. Federal money goes toward the public education of children. Whoever's in charge of that money has some say, no matter how small, in allocating it or planning for the future.

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You are showing a complete lack of knowledge about education funding.

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imjustafatkid

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Maybe you should do your homework next time

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So we paid for it with debt? Sounds like most Republican policies.

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Lyndon B Johnson was a Republican?

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Lyndon B Johnson was a Republican?

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GWB was, or are you disavowing him now?

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Maybe you should do your homework next time

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I am a CPA with years of experience working in school finance in a system that heavily relied on federal funding. Most of that funding went to the free lunch program. You are out of your league, and not worth my time.

Your link shows you don't even understand percentages. That just says federal spending increased. I can tell you, with first hand experience, that even with increased spending federal education funding is not even close to the highest funding for education spending in even the poorest districts.

ETA: I should clarify that I mean for education activities. If you add in the lunch program (and dinner...), federal spending is likely fairly high in poorer districts. That's not in any danger of going anywhere, so I don't feel like it has a place in this discussion.

It's not just democrats

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She's a perfect example for how donating to Republicans can make them ignore your lack of qualifications for a Cabinet-level position. And we get to couch it in the language of educating children?

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What do you know about teaching kids? I bet you couldn't last one day teaching public school if you could even pass the praxis at all

Devos is a teacher and her mother is a teacher, that makes her qualified x 2

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The only school systems that would be affected by this have already destroyed themselves

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Well the problem with this statement is that it is completely untrue. I have no problem with private schools, but charter school are promoted through laws which force the local public school boards, involuntary, to divert our tax dollars to private education companies, who then put the profit in their pockets. This drives any affected school district, successful or not, into deficits. And there isn't a damn thing the local voters or taxpayers can do about it. It is robbery of our local tax dollars. It is the opposite of local control over taxes and education.

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Well the problem with this statement is that it is completely untrue. I have no problem with private schools, but charter school are promoted through laws which force the local public school boards, involuntary, to divert our tax dollars to private education companies, who then put the profit in their pockets. This drives any affected school district, successful or not, into deficits. And there isn't a damn thing the local voters or taxpayers can do about it. It is robbery of our local tax dollars. It is the opposite of local control over taxes and education.

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It diverts the money the schools would have received for the specific child in question to the school of their choice. Since the system is no longer educating that child, they are not actually losing anything.

ETA: The charter schools bill here in Alabama does not require local funding to act in this way. It only relates to state and federal funds. Maybe other states are different.