Good Jobs First has studied the distribution of COVID relief funds in depth. It created a site called COVID Stimulus Watch. It published an article about the depth of corruption in the Trump administration, which distributed COVID relief funds.
In this post, the researchers at Good Jobs First reveal the federal funding in the Paycheck Protection Program for all 50 states, distributed to charter schools, religious schools, and private schools.
As you review the funding for your own state, please bear in mind that public schools received an average of $134,500 each. Also, public schools were not allowed to apply for PPP funding. Charter schools were, however, allowed to get a portion of the public school funding and then to apply for PPP funding as if they were small businesses.
Check out your own state. You will find that elite private schools with high tuition and large endowments received grants that often were millions of dollars.
Depressing information.
How can those places who took the money they did not deserve claim to be honest?
And what’s even worse … “HOW CAN these organizations CLAIM to be ETHICAL when they CHEAT and LIE?”
Has “cheating and lying” become the NORM in America? Do our laws promote “cheating and lying?”
When cheating and lying starts in the WH, it makes it pretty easy to follow suit.
If he can, then I can.
What a terrible thing for our country!
So much money sent to private charter schools that suffered no economic loss while public schools struggled to keep students and teachers safe. Mom and pop businesses and small restaurants that suffered the most were largely ignored. Corruption!
In Connecticut where I teach the big Covid Relief Act shakes down to;
Public Schools averaging relief of $134,000 each
Amistad Academy got $3,500,000,
Elm City Academy got $1,500,000
Jumoke Academy $1,500,000
what is the average number of employees? I checked out KIPP in st. louis…….(they have a board with 13 members of the financial community) and they received 3.5 million for 271 employees. I figured that is about 13,000 for each employee….is that about right? how many employees are dividing up the 134,000 dollars in the public schools….more than 100? less than 1000? I have a feeling a close look would reveal scandalous treatment of public school employees compared with charters and private schools. There was a time when charters were simply a different kind of school in a public school district……it must pay to have changed it to “private businesses” Somebody needs to scream at Biden to do something regarding this.
It is absolutely amazing how much PPP private religious affiliated schools received across this nation. They made out like bandits. The church leaders of the United States got down on their collective knees and kissed Trump and Devoss’ fifth point of contact and were rewarded with very, very large checks that will never be paid back or actually justified.
DeVoss is gone, back to her boats, and never to be missed by people with sound ethics and morals. Trump will be gone in seven days. The disaster that he created in the country will live on for a very long time.
Agree- adding, even at this blog, readers still ask who has gained from Trump’s administration. The obvious answer is conservative religion.
The vote that elected Trump in 2016 and accounted for a substantial number among the 70,000,000+ votes he received in 2020 was religious. Democratic messaging won’t identify the Trump backers because a cone of protection covers religion. The tribalists are feared.
Linda You are distorting everything about religion in your notes.
” . . . even at this blog, readers still ask who has gained from Trump’s administration. The obvious answer is conservative religion.”
What exactly IS “conservative religion?” Also, Who Benefits? I’ll copy below part of my note from another thread:
” . . . it’s a bunch of ultra-conservative, neo-liberals who know how to organize politically and who haul out their religious affiliations, and the dog-whistle abortion, when it serves their POLITICAL and ECONOMIC purposes. . . . based mostly in Ayn Randian selfishness and several biases. . . . They are abusing the names Christian and Catholic all over the place . . . the teachings of Jesus or the New Testament, in fact, make Jesus out to be (in modern terminology)” more politically socialist than conservative . . . “like helping the poor or sharing wealth? giving to Cesar what belongs to Cesar, . . .” rich people getting through the eye of a camel, I could go on.
They are protecting their dollars and their political power while they wave a religious flag to cover for their biases and selfishness. Linda has it backwards.
CBK,
Linda doesn’t like Catholics. She has made that clear. Ignore her. It’s the last respectable form of prejudice.
Diane “Linda doesn’t like Catholics”? It’s a continuous barrage of simple-minded cherry-picked references to both religion in general and Catholics in particular. I’ve said this before here, but I can imagine what you would think if every “Catholic” reference were replaced by “Jewish.”
Also, by the time the articles she cites get here, they are twisted around so that it looks like concerted Catholicism behind all bad actors and movements, instead of neo-liberal right-wing political efforts, hiding behind Catholicism and religion when it suits them, and fueled by many people from all sorts of backgrounds, to keep power and to take it away from the “kind of people” they fear.
When I and others refer to Catholics like Biden and Pelosi . . . crickets from Linda. . . . bounces right off. What Linda puts forward is just as distorted by omission as that van on the mall with the Christian flag flying above it. . . . emerging here as ignorance.
I ignore allot of what she says, and then just get sick of her ongoing Catholic-bashing–even when there are kernels of truth . . . and there are sometimes . . . the omissions and constant bashing are so very telling . . . and so very false. CBK
succinctly understood: never paid back OR justified
Now I know why the reporter on my local paper wasn’t interested. Surprisingly, no charter schools in Akron area, although many Catholic and private schools got PPP money. Lots in Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Toledo!
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