The Minnesota legislature passed legislation to create “education savings accounts” (vouchers) and attached it to the state budget.
Governor Mark Dayton, a Democrat, has said he will veto any legislation that divert public money to private schools.
The Network for Public Education Action Fund urges you to send a message of support to Governor Dayton and encourage him to stop this raid on public funding for public schools.
“Governor Dayton’s promise to veto any bill that has vouchers attached to it, is about to be put to the test. The Minnesota legislature is sending a $33 million tax credit scholarship proposal to his desk. Let Governor Dayton know that you want him to keep his promise and veto this proposal.
“Send your email to the Governor. We make it easy. Just click here.
“Opportunity scholarships are nothing more than vouchers in disguise. School choice proponents claim that vouchers will help low-income students, but voucher programs inevitably subsidize families that are able to afford private school tuition, leaving low-income students in public schools with fewer tax dollars available to fund the public education system as a whole. And this so-called credit gives 70% back to the donor–that means that all taxpayers are funding 70% of the voucher.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Don’t know if you-all saw this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trumps-first-full-education-budget-deep-cuts-to-public-school-programs-in-pursuit-of-school-choice/2017/05/17/2a25a2cc-3a41-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.3bc679488925
It’s worse than what was predicted. The federal plan is to cut money from existing schools and use the “savings” for charter and private schools.
Public schools get nothing but funding cuts. It’s an anti-public school budget. Not one benefit for kids or parents in existing public schools- all losses.
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Raise your hand if you predicted DC ed reformers would take funding from existing public schools to fund new charters and vouchers.
It’s just a lie that they’re “agnostics”. Every single ed reform initiative harms kids in public schools. There is NEVER a benefit.
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DeVos should be ashamed that she traveled to those public schools and told those parents and kids ed reform “supports” them.
They “support” public schools by directly transferring funding from kids in public schools to vouchers and charters.
She flat-out lied to those people. Public schools get absolutely nothing in this deal. Less than nothing. They get cuts.
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