What the Tax Bill Does to Education

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1. Joel Herman (@jwherman11) says:

   December 18, 2017 at 10:26 pm

   Way too little and way to late . But I will be at a Demonstration on Wall and Broad tomorrow at noon . For those of you not from NY, that is the home of the NY Stock Exchange. That these demonstrations did not start as soon as the House passed it’s budget no less it’s bill is inexplicable .

   Now the effort must be to throw the scoundrels out of office and do the impossible . Get Democrats to reverse it and reverse it back to 1980.
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   • Joel Herman (@jwherman11) says:

     December 18, 2017 at 10:32 pm

     I guess no edit button for Christmas too late .
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2. Charles says:

   December 19, 2017 at 8:51 am

   I am delighted with the education provisions contained in this plan. More parents are going to be able to opt-out of publicly-operated schools. SecEd DeVos voiced her approval of the provisions.

   I disagree, with your statement about the Republican majority planning to “de-fund” public schools. Since 90% of funding of K-12 education is provided by states/municipalities, the primary responsibility to fund K-12, rests with the states/municipalities, and not with the Feds. This is as it should be, because the states/municipalities are closer to the people, and more in tune with their wishes. As far as I am concerned, I believe that the feds should drop out of K-12 education altogether and abolish the Dept of Education.

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3. Chiara says:

   December 19, 2017 at 10:05 am

   All of ed reform are enthusiastically promoting public schools buying ed tech product and now the US Department of Education are validating the sales pitch.

   You really start to wonder about the level of coordination between ed reform groups, ed reform funders, and the US Department of Education. This cannot be a coincidence that all of these people parrot the same lines at exactly the same time.

   Why are we paying federal employees to sell these products to public schools? They’re validating what is a marketing effort by these companies. Public schools don’t have to buy devices for every student. There isn’t a shred of evidence that it makes for a better school. No one has shown ANYTHING to prove that a “dashboard” and a ;laptop is a better way. This is just nonsense.

   Please resist this. Please find someone to give your public school better advice. These people are hopelessly captured. This isn’t “science” or “evidence”- it’s an industry-funded multi-pronged marketing effort. They all sound the same because THEY ARE the same.

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   • ciedie aech says:

     December 19, 2017 at 1:17 pm

     MORE and more it appears that we are not going to escape the Ed Tech School Takeover. What the tech billionaires want, the tech billionaires are so coordinatedly telling the nation “we need.”

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4. FLERP! says:

   December 19, 2017 at 7:03 pm

   The provision allowing 529 plans to be used for home-schooling will likely be coming out of the bill. So there’s that.

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5. Yvonne Siu-Runyan says:

   December 19, 2017 at 11:02 pm

   I just spent the ENTIRE DAY dealing with computer issues…SLOPPY, SLOPPY programming. What a WASTE of MY TIME.

   This high tech stuff ain’t so high tech. All this crazy environment does is TAKE THE BREATH OUT OF EACH OF US, make us depressed, and even think about committing suicide (some do).

   So….What’s so great about all of this “so-called” high-tech?

   This is NOT high-tech. It is LOW tech with a lot of sloppy programming.

   USERS BEWARE!!!!!

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