Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has frozen $8.6 billion that Congress appropriated for students this summer. The Administration is supposed to spend the money that Congress authorized and appropriated, not withhold it.
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Just weeks before the school year begins, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is refusing to release $8.6 billion in federal funds that Congress approved for public schools.
This is more than a funding freeze—it’s a test run for permanent cuts. And unless we act now, our schools will pay the price. Send your letter to Linda McMahon.
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Diane Ravitch's blog 
Thanks for this, it’s gonna be another busy day contacting my legislators. Coincidentally, or not, there was an opinion-cum-propaganda piece on school vouchers in today’s Boston Globe by “Jim Stergios, executive director of Pioneer Institute, a think tank with offices in Boston and Washington, D.C.” That’s all the Globe said. Of course the words “think tank” and “Washington, D.C.” should send up warning flares to any sentient human being, but not to the above-the-fray, objective, both-sides-of-the-issue useless editor of Globe opinion/editorial section.
I’d heard of the Pioneer Institute before, immediately went to sourcewatch.org to get the lowdown, copied what they had to say (it was juicy, laying out that they’re another bunch of right wing nuts seeking to pillage public education, among other things), and entering it into the onine comments.
Good thing I was up early, in so doing I was second in the comments, thus high visibility, and countering the entry immediately proceeding, possibly a sympathetic plant.
*****FLASH*****
As I was writing this, I decided to revisit the Globe’s page for the editorial, found out that in place of entry was a “This comment has been blocked” message! Can you believe it? Well, yeah! Anyway, re-entered it, let’s see how long it stays up, first time it was garnering a lot of “likes” and stood as solid counterweight to all the right wing horse manure comments, now that I think of it perhaps many of them plants, part of a right wing media campaign to influence passage of legislation, proposed by ALEC. We’re in trouble.
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Thank you for taking action.
The Pioneer Institute has always been pro-charters, pro-vouchers, and anti-public schools.
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$8.6 BILLION! That money will VANISH before it can be routed or reallocated to Public Schools for Autumn or Winter After School Programs or anything else. “VANDALS” is the correct name for them. And who better to represent that energy & destructive intention than a World Wrestling Entertainment Executive.
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Here is a breakdown of 10 ways Trump’s policies hurt children and families.
https://open.substack.com/pub/carolkocivar/p/ten-ways-new-federal-policies-hurt?r=1v8wim&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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