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Taxpayer funding seems to be a GO for religious schools
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RE: Taxpayer funding seems to be a GO for religious schools
(May 19, 2017 at 4:44 pm)Lutrinae Wrote:
Quote:When she’s not getting booed by college students, Betsy DeVos‘ day job is to make public education worse all over the country. Looks like she’s close to achieving that goal, according to budget documents obtained by the Washington Post, and one of the biggest ways she’ll do it is by funneling money from public schools to religious ones.

Funding for college work-study programs would be cut in half, public-service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.

The administration would channel part of the savings into its top priority: school choice. It seeks to spend about $400 million to expand charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools, and another $1 billion to push public schools to adopt choice-friendly policies.


That $400 million gift isn’t just about “school choice.” It’s about using taxpayer dollars to fund religious indoctrination. In some voucher problems, like the one in Florida, taxpayers are funding the teaching of Creationism in science class, the idea that homosexuality is wrong, and corporal punishment.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyath...s-schools/

This is just a disgusting turn of events. Hope it is challenged immediately.
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RE: Taxpayer funding seems to be a GO for religious schools - by brewer - May 19, 2017 at 4:56 pm

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