School Choice II
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James Talarico
@jamestalarico
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These pictures were taken at Cornerstone Christian School, where tuition is $27,000.
Abbott’s voucher is only $8,000 — not enough for working families
to get a “choice” but enough for rich families at Cornerstone
to get a 30% discount.
Vouchers are welfare for the wealthy.
Please explain in your own words why parents shouldn't get to freely use their tax dollars to choose their child's education.
Why is it better to be forced to an arbitrary geography
James Talarico
@jamestalarico
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These pictures were taken at Cornerstone Christian School, where tuition is $27,000.
Abbott’s voucher is only $8,000 — not enough for working families
to get a “choice” but enough for rich families at Cornerstone
to get a 30% discount.
Vouchers are welfare for the wealthy.
Do you think 27k is the normal price for private schools? That's got to be one of the highest in the state of Texas. The national average for private school tuition ranges from 12k-16k. So yeah, I think 8k is is pretty significant.
acesfull86
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https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/gov-abbott-says-agreement-reached-with-house-leaders-on-school-choice-plan/amp/
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday he reached an “agreement” with Texas House leaders that could advance his stalled school choice plan, as time runs short to approve it before the third special legislative session ends in exactly one week.
Abbott said he expanded the special session agenda to now include additional public school funding as well as teacher pay raises after working with House Speaker Dade Phelan. He said their deal would also raise the proposed amount of money that families could receive through an education savings account program he’d like to establish in state. He said participating students could receive approximately $10,400 per year, which is higher than the numbers previously proposed by both the House and Senate.
According to an email from Abbott’s office, key aspects of the legislation to expand school choice in Texas include the following:
- Universal eligibility for all K-12 schoolchildren in Texas.
- Voluntary participation – parents, students, and schools choose whether they want to participate.
- Students will receive approximately $10,400 per year in their Education Savings Accounts.
- Phases out the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) Test.
- Students participating in the program will have the option of taking a norm-referenced test or STAAR test to ensure the program achieves good educational outcomes.
- Billions more in funding for Texas public schools for the biennium, including teacher pay raises and school safety.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday he reached an “agreement” with Texas House leaders that could advance his stalled school choice plan, as time runs short to approve it before the third special legislative session ends in exactly one week.
Abbott said he expanded the special session agenda to now include additional public school funding as well as teacher pay raises after working with House Speaker Dade Phelan. He said their deal would also raise the proposed amount of money that families could receive through an education savings account program he’d like to establish in state. He said participating students could receive approximately $10,400 per year, which is higher than the numbers previously proposed by both the House and Senate.
According to an email from Abbott’s office, key aspects of the legislation to expand school choice in Texas include the following:
- Universal eligibility for all K-12 schoolchildren in Texas.
- Voluntary participation – parents, students, and schools choose whether they want to participate.
- Students will receive approximately $10,400 per year in their Education Savings Accounts.
- Phases out the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) Test.
- Students participating in the program will have the option of taking a norm-referenced test or STAAR test to ensure the program achieves good educational outcomes.
- Billions more in funding for Texas public schools for the biennium, including teacher pay raises and school safety.
acesfull86
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Hope Texas can get this over the line. Would be the cherry on top of a very good year for the school choice movement.
chop2chip
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As someone with kids living in Texas, this would be fantastic.
I live in a pretty average suburb in Austin and most of my immediate neighbors send their kids to charter schools.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
hopefully it can help y'all be a little above average!
on a more serious note, i am fully in favor of more competition in schools...even if there will be some occasional glitches and abuses in the process and friday night lights are slightly dimmed
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acesfull86
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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/11/01/us/portland-oregon-teacher-strike/index.html
CNN
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Public schools in Portland, Oregon, will be closed Wednesday as teachers go on strike with no agreement reached between their union and the school district on a new contract.
“It’s official: We are on strike to ensure the district meets our demands so that every Portland student can attend a great public school,” the Portland Association of Teachers said in a Facebook post Tuesday.
Portland Public Schools – one of the largest school districts in the Pacific Northwest – has more than 49,000 students across its 81 schools, according to the district’s website. The union represents more than 4,000 certified educators in the district, according to its Facebook page.
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Oh good, now they’re on strike. Wasn’t bad enough that Oregon dropped graduation requirements for math, reading, and writing proficiency, now they’re just not going to show up at all.
CNN
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Public schools in Portland, Oregon, will be closed Wednesday as teachers go on strike with no agreement reached between their union and the school district on a new contract.
“It’s official: We are on strike to ensure the district meets our demands so that every Portland student can attend a great public school,” the Portland Association of Teachers said in a Facebook post Tuesday.
Portland Public Schools – one of the largest school districts in the Pacific Northwest – has more than 49,000 students across its 81 schools, according to the district’s website. The union represents more than 4,000 certified educators in the district, according to its Facebook page.
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Oh good, now they’re on strike. Wasn’t bad enough that Oregon dropped graduation requirements for math, reading, and writing proficiency, now they’re just not going to show up at all.
cajunrevenge
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I support school choice but not if it means subsidizing religious schools. Kind of defeats the purpose of education if the education they are getting tells them they can pray cancer away and a magic man in the sky watches you poop.
acesfull86
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https://www.foxnews.com/media/pittsburgh-public-schools-approve-measure-teachers-white-supremacy-math-classes
The Pittsburgh Public Schools Board has voted to hire a consulting group that educates teachers on how to replace "White supremacy culture practices" in math instruction with methods that center on the "wellness of students of color."
As reported by The Center Square, the consulting group states that its workshops teach "antiracist math" and will help equip teachers with tools to "identify, disrupt and replace" practices that perpetuate White supremacy.
"The purpose of this series is to equip educators who have completed the Antiracist Math Workshop Series Edition 1 to develop and lead towards a more cohesive and aligned math instruction praxis across classrooms, departments and schools. Participants will learn how to train others in the topic of antiracist math, as well as how to identify issues of equity in math spaces," the school board tab added.
"The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so," a document for the "Equitable Math" toolkit reads. "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict."
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Turns out they’re teaching religion in public schools.
acesfull86
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https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20210710
Abstract
Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed effects design, we explore how a Florida private school choice program affected public school students' outcomes as the program matured and scaled up. We observe growing benefits (higher standardized test scores and lower absenteeism and suspension rates) to students attending public schools with more preprogram private school options as the program matured.
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Competition = good
Abstract
Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed effects design, we explore how a Florida private school choice program affected public school students' outcomes as the program matured and scaled up. We observe growing benefits (higher standardized test scores and lower absenteeism and suspension rates) to students attending public schools with more preprogram private school options as the program matured.
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Competition = good
acesfull86
Well-known member
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/us/portland-oregon-teachers-strike.html
The average salary for a Portland teacher is $87,000, according to Portland Public Schools, slightly above the area median income for a single person and below the median for a family of four. (The union said that the average full-time salary is about $83,000.)
Portland Public Schools has offered raises of 4.5 percent for the first year, and 3 percent in subsequent years of the contract. The union is asking for 8.5 percent in the first year to keep up with cost of living, and 6 percent and 5 percent in subsequent years.
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Considering Oregon’s lack of graduation requirements for proficiency in reading, writing, and math, Portland public school teachers are essentially glorified babysitters with tenure and summers off. I’d say that offer from the district is pretty damn good.
The average salary for a Portland teacher is $87,000, according to Portland Public Schools, slightly above the area median income for a single person and below the median for a family of four. (The union said that the average full-time salary is about $83,000.)
Portland Public Schools has offered raises of 4.5 percent for the first year, and 3 percent in subsequent years of the contract. The union is asking for 8.5 percent in the first year to keep up with cost of living, and 6 percent and 5 percent in subsequent years.
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Considering Oregon’s lack of graduation requirements for proficiency in reading, writing, and math, Portland public school teachers are essentially glorified babysitters with tenure and summers off. I’d say that offer from the district is pretty damn good.
acesfull86
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Big thanks to 57 for introducing us to this clown who’s now out here inadvertently making arguments for ESA’s. Almost as good a self own as the Chicago teacher’s union president explanation for why she sends her kid to private school, but not quite.
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Big thanks to 57 for introducing us to this clown who’s now out here inadvertently making arguments for ESA’s. Almost as good a self own as the Chicago teacher’s union president explanation for why she sends her kid to private school, but not quite.
57Brave
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@antifaoperative
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Florida baptist school teacher, Harriet Sugg,
has been arrested for the rape of a student.
Sugg’s survivor is suing The First Academy,
The First Baptist Church of Orlando & her former teacher
for sexual abuse & for failing to notify law enforcement
after learning of the abuse.
@antifaoperative
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Florida baptist school teacher, Harriet Sugg,
has been arrested for the rape of a student.
Sugg’s survivor is suing The First Academy,
The First Baptist Church of Orlando & her former teacher
for sexual abuse & for failing to notify law enforcement
after learning of the abuse.
57Brave
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James Talarico
@jamestalarico
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5h
BREAKING: Greg Abbott's special session just ended and he failed to pass his voucher scam — AGAIN.
I’m proud of the bipartisan majority that stood up to the governor & his billionaire mega-donors.
Abbott can call as many sessions as he wants, but we'll never sell out our kids.
@jamestalarico
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BREAKING: Greg Abbott's special session just ended and he failed to pass his voucher scam — AGAIN.
I’m proud of the bipartisan majority that stood up to the governor & his billionaire mega-donors.
Abbott can call as many sessions as he wants, but we'll never sell out our kids.
acesfull86
Well-known member
[tw]1722021710046658975[/tw]
acesfull86
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He says he’ll just keep calling them until it passes. There was a special election in the state House last night and the anti-choice (R) candidate failed to make the runoff.
Hopefully Texas gets there.