Nebraska loves its public schools!
It remains one of the few states to reject vouchers, charters, and the Common Core.
Nebraska’s Legislature said NO again to vouchers!
Date: Wed, May 15, 2019 at 2:46 PM
Subject: With your help, we defeated LB 670!
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From: Stand for Schools <info@standforschools.org>
Date: Wed, May 15, 2019 at 2:46 PM
Subject: With your help, we defeated LB 670!
Date: Wed, May 15, 2019 at 2:46 PM
Subject: With your help, we defeated LB 670!
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Good for Nebraska! In Florida we get no say about what the governor does with public money. He just decided the giant shift of money into vouchers without consulting the public.
@retired teacher: Your claim that Florida governor DeSantis unilaterally decided the “giant shift of money” is not true. The governor recently praised the Florida legislature for passing the legislation. see
https://www.flgov.com/2019/05/06/in-case-you-missed-it-governor-ron-desantis-commends-florida-legislature-for-passage-of-school-choice-expansion-and-key-education-priorities/
There are a host of new initiatives, including additional funding for school security and civic literacy.
As a frequent traveler in Nebraska, I have come to love the state for its independence, hardy approach to living with real winter, and general intelligence of its population. Traveling through the Sandhills region on NE Hwy 2, we approached a town called Thedford, population 240. We noticed a sort of visitor center, and were greeted with a wonderful art gallery of local artists work, yet another history museum (every town in the Great Plains has a local history museum), and people in both places who would talk to you without assuming that you were an idiot because of your accent.
On a trip back in 2003, my truck kept giving trouble. It was not until we got to Stanton, NE that we found a mechanic who could fix it for good, a massive guy from German-Russian stock who was more meticulous than a surgeon and ran a shop with a floor so clean you could sit on it without soiling your clothes.
If you want to see what real computer-based instruction looks like, go to the almost vacant Sandhills, where water is too scarce to support towns of any size and any activity besides ranching is out of the question. Vast distances between human services mean students have to learn remotely, and they do so with amazing proficiency.
But he greatest thing about Nebraska is miles of rolling grasslands, flocks of migratory birds, and fields of wildflowers waving in the constant wind. In the spring, the half-a-million Sandhills cranes that breed all across Canada join millions of Tundra-bound snow geese and countless ducks in a mad rush for breeding pools in the north. Lakes filled with Shoveler males all rising at once in response to the passing of an eagle. Waves of snow geese so massive that the flock stretches across the sky, disappearing to each horizon.
I knew a rancher who was so enamoured of the wildlife that he rented out his ranch, living hand to mouth off the rent, so he could take pictures and volunteer at local parks and natural areas.
That there was ever any question about education in such a place is teastament to the really small group of political leaders who want this “reform” we discuss here so much.
It also is the only state in the U.S. with a unicameral legislature:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nebraskas-unicameral-legislature-deliberative-democracy_b_59dd2e8ee4b04fc4e1e981e5
And the state was also not an immediate pushover for the Keystone XL Pipeline:
I ♥️ Nebraska.
Nebraskans fight for their public schools.