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On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:01 PM Diane Ravitch’s blog wrote:
> dianeravitch posted: ” REGISTER NOW FOR 2/24 WEBINAR:Litigating Against > Private School VouchersJoin Education Law Center and Public Funds Public > Schools on Wednesday, February 24, from 3:00-4:30 p.m. EST for a > webinar, “Litigating Against Private School Vouchers.” During the w” >
Is the comment of “Jim Waters”, a reflection of the haughty, simplistic response that a Koch network organization like the Bluegrass institute posts?
A few descriptive examples of actual “nastiness” follow-
Religious schools that are anti-LGBTQ to the point of endorsing conversion therapy which is associated with greater incidence of suicide
Religious schools that have altered the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance in a way that jeopardizes women’s health
Private and religious schools that promote predatory capitalism which justifies people dying in the gutter like feral dogs
Religious schools that have found legal backing for exemption from civil rights employment law
Private schools that promote authoritarianism like that of Hungary’s Orban
Private schools built on the model proposed by racist Georgia Gov. Talmadge whose solution to court-ordered integration was privatization
Check out media reports about Matt Schlapp and his wife. He’s chair of the organization hosting CPAC where Trump will speak soon.
The organization scheduled a speaker who has made anti-Semitic comments. Newsweek reported Schlapp’s wife retweeted a racist tweet and then tried to cover it up. Matt attended a religious school and co-chaired a religious organization that worked to get Trump elected.
How good that you noticed that Jim Waters is from the rightwing, voucher-loving Bluegrass Institute.
They want the public to pay for religious schools, like how to handle a snake, and why men rode 🦕 in olden times.
Snake handling and dinosaur riding are among the least dangerous things that are taught.
Postd at OpEd News https://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Learn-About-Litigating-Aga-in-General_News-Diane-Ravitch_Education-For-All_Education-Funding_Education-K-12-210223-452.html with this intro:
REGISTER NOW 2/24 WEBINAR 3:00-4:30 EST :
Litigating Against Private School: Experienced attorneys will discuss lawsuits challenging private school voucher programs and other diversions of public funds to private education in state and federal courts Key findings from the $600 Billion Lost report: The nation’s public schools lost a cumulative $598 billion in state and local revenue due to states’ failure to maintain a consistent level of effort to fund public education. In all but four states, funding for PK-12 education in 2018 was a smaller portion of economic activity than before the Great Recession: ELC is at the forefront of state-based efforts to improve school funding equity and secure essential resources for all students. Our strategies include litigation, policy development, capacity building, communications, data analysis and research.Our work is based on the belief that all children deserve the opportunity to learn.”
I alos posted this comment which I took from the ELC website.
https://edlawcenter.org/assets/MTG%202020/MTG%202020%20Press%20Release.pdf
Making the Grade | Education Law Center.. Making the Grade 2020 evaluates the 50 states and the District of Columbia on three measures of fair school funding: funding level, funding distribution and funding effort. The report documents the alarming condition of school funding in most states, leaving school districts, especially those segregated by poverty, ill-equipped to weather the economic, social and educational upheaval schools are currently experiencing from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Key findings from Making the Grade 2020 include:
School funding levels vary dramatically across states, with the top states providing upwards of 50% more than the national average funding level of $14,548 per pupil, and the bottom states providing 30% less.
States in the Northeast and Midwest generally have higher funding levels than those in the South and West.
Fifteen states have “regressive” school funding systems, meaning high poverty districts receive less funding than low poverty districts.
“As states confront the COVID-19 public health crisis, these reports are a stark reminder of the long- lasting implications of shortsighted economic policy,” said Jennifer Doeren, Director of the Partnership for Equity & Education Rights (PEER). “Going forward, it’s critical that threats to school funding are met with a strong and sustained demand that governors and legislators not reduce but increase their state’s investment in its public schools.”
The ELC reports released today are designed to provide policymakers, advocates, teachers, parents and others with the information they need to advance fair school funding. Both reports provide state-by- state data in an interactive dashboard.