States taking away public school funding

[Busterscruggs]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickgleason/2021/03/30/school-choice-expands-in-west-virgina-with-the-stroke-of-a-governors-pen-and-in-kentucky-with-an-override-of-a-governors-veto/

There is a new wave of home and private school chatter and they are coming to take away valuable funds intended for public schools. If it's not bad enough that the privileged rich get to enroll their kids in fancy schools, now they feel the need to take away funds from the public school poor. At least the kentucky governor put up a fight for the teachers who are rightfully on his side in this matter.

[keithbvadu2]

1. These are public funds, taxpayer money.

Charter and voucher schools have been used to make their administrators rich.
These are public funds, taxpayer money.
The money paid out to these schools should only be equivalent to what is paid for the public students for equivalent value services.
If the charter/voucher school does not have a gymnasium dedicated solely to the school, then no equivalent money for it. If no equivalent counseling provided, no equivalent funding.
No school buses? No equivalent funding.
Teachers, textbooks, equipment, and other features only paid the pro-rated amount that the public school students get.

These private schools usually want the full expenditures for public schooling without providing the full services.

Annnnnnd they should be required to take all students who want to attend just as public schools do.

[pidge]

2. I thought charter schools WERE public schools.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Some are part public/privately run.

Some are part public/privately run.

Some are even operating within public school facilities.

https://www.edweek.org/charter-schools?utm_source=goog&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=ew+site+tags&s_kwcid=AL!6416!3!525510285299!b!!g!!charter%20schools&gclid=Cj0KCQiAq7COBhC2ARIsANsPATG03_Pyt3HMwDA8vjUUw3HRBQ6-JiIWUB24TM5VHKCEWAblCvvwpbEaAgCgEALw_wcB

[I_UndergroundPanther]

4. Setting up our libraries

To be privatized. Corporations are always pushing to take away our commons.

Fuck privatization.

[central scrutinizer]

5. It's a way to bust the unions

[Busterscruggs]

8. Right to work

Is doing a fine job of that in middle America unfortunately. I wish you could still find the union label

[sarcasmo]

6. Drink Brawndo, it's what plants crave.

[Busterscruggs]

7. What?

I dont understand what that has to do with school funding? Anyways, I'm a miracle-gro junky.