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School choice candidates unseated *12* rural anti-choice rural repubs in Texas last night
Posted on 3/6/24 at 9:08 am
Posted on 3/6/24 at 9:08 am
This is huge news for passing the bills through the legislature
Trump also was involved here. He actively supported all the school choice candidates and made robocalls against the anti-choice gop incumbents
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In a major victory for Gov. Greg Abbott, at least a dozen proponents of private school vouchers on Tuesday defeated incumbent House lawmakers or forced them into runoff elections in key Republican primaries across the state.
The early results – with three more races too close to call after midnight – were a political show of force for the governor after he suffered an embarrassing defeat in November when 21 Republicans joined Democrats to block his voucher plan.
As of early Wednesday, eight of those 21 seats were set to be replaced outright by pro-voucher members, while four more were headed for runoffs in late May. In one other, a pro-voucher candidate held a lead with all the votes counted, but the Associated Press had not yet called the race.
Abbott doled out more than $6 million across 15 races and made dozens of campaign stops to support pro-voucher candidates. The outcome will likely reshape the debate over vouchers, which rural Republicans killed last year over fears they would hurt the state's public schools.
Trump also was involved here. He actively supported all the school choice candidates and made robocalls against the anti-choice gop incumbents
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Posted on 3/6/24 at 9:32 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Because what America needs is for rich people to get tax money for private schools they already easily afford.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 9:46 am to TheHumanTornado
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Because what America needs is for rich people to get tax money for private schools they already easily afford.
If I had the choice of paying my taxes to public schools or private schools I know which way I would go. Paying taxes into something you feel nets you a positive return is a lot easier to stomach than paying taxes to something where you feel you get a negative return for your contribution.
I would think anyone with common sense reasoning would want the same no matter how rich or poor one might be paying those taxes.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 9:57 am to TheHumanTornado
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Because what America needs is for rich people to get tax money for private schools they already easily afford.
The purpose of state education is to educate all children how to function in their state regardless of all concerns including economics!
Like the Old West where the principle of “the calf follows the cow”, the money should follow the child, and the parents or guardians should determine where it’s spent. Think the GI bill where we trust the adults to make the responsible choice of what institution best meets their needs.
Your attempt to spawn jealousy to divide Americans is just plain evil. And you are trying to deny the less affluent the same choices in schools that the rich people actually have. That is a second evil.
Have you no shame?
Posted on 3/6/24 at 10:01 am to TheHumanTornado
quote:stop being emotional, you're acting like your mother.
Because what America needs is for rich people to get tax money for private schools they already easily afford.
if a taxpaying citizen wants a voucher to send their child, using their own tax money, to a better school, then so be it. it's not "just rich people," it's people who care enough about their children's education to be proactive about it.
if a democrat doesn't care about their child getting the best education as is possible, then send them to the shite school right down the street, nobody cares. those people are a lost cause anyway.
you're lying, you're emotional, and you don't care about the children of taxpayers getting the best education possible. you care about talking points and virtue signaling. shame on you.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 10:02 am to mudshuvl05
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if a taxpaying citizen wants a voucher to send their child, using their own tax money, to a better school, then so be it. it's not "just rich people," it's people who care enough about their children's education to be proactive about it.
if a democrat doesn't care about their child getting the best education as is possible, then send them to the shite school right down the street, nobody cares. those people are a lost cause anyway.
As long as enrollment is open for all options, obviously.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 10:09 am to TheHumanTornado
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Because what America needs is for rich people to get tax money for private schools they already easily afford.
Sad and low IQ response when it would OVERWHELMINGLY help black children in hopeless urban wastelands. As always, stay true to your ideological orthodoxy, and frick the people you pretend to champion.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 10:34 am to TheHumanTornado
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Because what America needs is for rich people to get tax money for private schools they already easily afford.
Found the groomer.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 10:38 am to SlowFlowPro
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As long as enrollment is open for all options
Such as?
Posted on 3/6/24 at 11:02 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
This is probably going to ruin private schools. If I wanted to send my kids to a school that takes state monies, I’d do that.
Congrats, I guess.
Congrats, I guess.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 11:57 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
This is not going to end well for rural districts, where even if you’re well off private schools are often not an option.
Gonna be tough seeing that tax money instead go to help rich families in Preston Hollow put their kids through St. Marks. But Abbot knows where his bread is buttered and it’s not BFE.
Gonna be tough seeing that tax money instead go to help rich families in Preston Hollow put their kids through St. Marks. But Abbot knows where his bread is buttered and it’s not BFE.
This post was edited on 3/6/24 at 11:59 am
Posted on 3/6/24 at 12:08 pm to TheHumanTornado
Get their kids out of the stupidity of the Union controlled idiots teaching our kids. NOT THE STATES KIDS.
Get your butt motivated enough, you can get scholarships offered to cut some or all of the costs.
Get your butt motivated enough, you can get scholarships offered to cut some or all of the costs.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 12:10 pm to TejasHorn
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This is not going to end well for rural districts, where even if you’re well off private schools are often not an option.
Have you or any of the other naysayers considered, that if money is available, someone may open up a great private school in rural areas?
Posted on 3/6/24 at 12:41 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Trump also was involved here. He actively supported all the school choice candidates and made robocalls against the anti-choice gop incumbents
This guy must have had an epiphany , recent post sound as if you’re voting for Trump, and not Biden or Hillary this time around . About time your arse wakes up.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 1:12 pm to Jspaspa3303
Does anyone know how it actually works?
Is it a tax credit? Is it based on your property taxes paid or is based on per pupil spending?
It’s great to say the money should follow the student but what does this actually look like?
I live in 70808 and paid ~$1300 in EBR school taxes. That’s a lot less then the private tuition I paid for two kids.
Is it a tax credit? Is it based on your property taxes paid or is based on per pupil spending?
It’s great to say the money should follow the student but what does this actually look like?
I live in 70808 and paid ~$1300 in EBR school taxes. That’s a lot less then the private tuition I paid for two kids.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 1:16 pm to TheHumanTornado
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Because what America needs is for taxes to be continually pumped into an education system run within a framework of proven failure.
Fixed.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 1:30 pm to SlowFlowPro
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As long as enrollment is open for all options, obviously.
The ultimate goal is to keep kids safe from freakazoid pedo groomers like you, you lying, sick POS!
Take your “enrollment is open for all options” and shove it up your arse. Of course you’d probably enjoy that.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 1:34 pm to Wasp
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Does anyone know how it actually works?
If you take your kid out of the zip code assigned school, you will be given the funds to go to another public school or private school
Basically, schools are no longer given blanket funds, the kids are given the funds.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 1:45 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I get that part. I’m asking how are the funds determined? EBR spends more per pupil on education then the average private school tuition in EBR.
Posted on 3/6/24 at 2:26 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
does this mean all schools getting government money will have to adhere to public school standards and testing?
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