As rhe evidence for the failure of vouchers accumulates, its friends push harder to enact them before the word gets out that they actually harm children.
Nebraska is the target now. Voucher advocates are pushing a tax credit there that would divert millions from public schools. The vast majority of students would suffer loss of funding so a tiny number could enroll in schools nowhere as good as the public schools.
If you live in Nebraska, call your state legislator today and urge him or her to vote NO on LB 670.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.
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The national push for vouchers in ed reform is really something to see. From DeVos spending 24/7 on it at the federal level and all these ed reform governors jamming vouchers through at the state level it has to be a coordinated political campaign.
Too bad they never get around to doing anything for public school students in these states. Oh, well. Maybe next year.
Maybe the Nebraska teachers will go on strike. That seems to be the only way to get politicians to turn their attention to the unfashionable public sector schools.
Hopefully the striking teachers can at least restore the funding we lost from 2008 to 2019.
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Holding democracy in disdain, the right perfected its legerdemain.
Killing unions became “right to work”
Universal healthcare became “death panels”
Destroying public schools became “school choice”
Vouchers became “tax credits” and “scholarships”
Discrimination against LGBTQX persons became “religious liberty”
Inheritance taxes became “death taxes”
Worksheets on a screen became “personalized learning”
Asylum seekers became “caravans of terrorists”
Economic and political equity became something sought by “snowflakes” and “social justice warriors”
Every public good became “Socialism”
Coleman and Gates’s puerile bullet list became “higher standards”
Racial quotas became “border security”
These people might lack certain normal human characteristics like compassion, tolerance, fairness, open-mindedness, and decency, but they sure have a handle on the sleight of hand.
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