Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education, explains here how Mike Pence expanded and deregulated Indiana’s voucher program, with substantial cash infusions from Betsy DeVos and Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com.
Despite state law, failing voucher schools were renewed. Failing charter schools converted to voucher schools to evade accountability. The voucher program has subsidized churches and paid tuition for students who never attended public schools and thus were not “escaping” to better schools. Many of the religious schools teach fraudulent science and history.
School choice is a big step backward for education in Indiana
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I truly DO NOT UNDERSTAND the DEFRAUDERS of education. Do these people’s prefrontal cortex work?
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Greed will make people do lots of things, mostly bad things.
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Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.
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Pence cares not about Public Education.
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You don’t see a lot of examination of Indiana’s ed reforms, outside of the ed reform cheering section, I mean.
It’s pretty well documented that they’ve harmed public ed in Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania, but nothing out of Indiana.
I wonder if it’s because it’s a one Party state so even more lock-step than usual.
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Pence is a hypocritical right wing Christian. On the one hand he won’t go to dinner with a woman unless his wife is there, on the other hand he has no problem being the lap dog the serial womanizer, Trump. As governor Indiana’s he promoted vouchers to drain public budgets to pay for schools that children of those with money were already attending. He made it possible to shift millions public to anti-science private, religious schools of dubious quality. Oligarchs prefer to dominate dumb people, and Pence created the framework for stupidity to flourish in his state.
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Retired teacher: “…Pence created the framework for stupidity to flourish in his state.”
Stupidity is doing very well in Indiana. Pence and the governor before him Mitch Daniels made sure of that.
It is cheap to live here otherwise I wouldn’t stay. The politics drives me crazy. BUT, Indiana has a budget. We should be so proud. There are large billboards on the interstate that goes to and from Illinois reminding everyone about how Indiana is a great state for business. Everything is falling apart but that doesn’t matter.
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I think we should all go to a private system. We could cherry pick the five students who measure up to our high standards and produce students who will be wealthy and give us credit for it so they will not have to feel guilty about having been given a big head start. We could throw out everybody who does not conform to our expectations and create a large pile of rejected humanity. Then we could blame them either by suggesting that they are genetically deformed or morally reprehensible.
The dystopian vision behind this stream of consciousness was brought to you by billionaires.com.
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And Pence is one “Mueller step” away from the presidency unless Mueller takes him down too along with Trump and most of Trump’s crooked, lying family.
And #3 in that line of success is currently Paul Ryan who just got a huge infusion of cash from the Koch brothers.
And Snopes fact check this and rated it TRUE.
“Republicans never hid the fact that this tax bill was about pleasing their big donors. And it looks like House Speaker [Paul] Ryan is quickly being rewarded for passing this legislation that overwhelmingly benefits the Kochs and billionaires like them.” …
“Six other $100,000 donations were made to Team Ryan after the passage of the bill, according to the IBT”
https://www.snopes.com/kochs-contributed-ryan-after-tax/
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Hi Diane –
What can people in Indiana do to stop or slow this down?
Jessica Josephson
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Diane Ravitch’s blog wrote:
> dianeravitch posted: ” Carol Burris, executive director of the Network > for Public Education, explains here how Mike Pence expanded and deregulated > Indiana’s voucher program, with substantial cash infusions from Betsy DeVos > and Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com. D” >
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