Why is no one talking about Doug Mastriano's plan to destroy public education?

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Will Bunch
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Doug Mastriano wants to demolish public schools in Pa. by cutting per-pupil spending more than half, to the level of Mississippi's failing classrooms. He'd spend a chunk of what's left to send kids to Christian schools

My new column on his radical plan

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Why is no one talking about Doug Mastriano’s plan to destroy public education in Pa.? | Will Bunch
GOP's radical Pa. gubernatorial candidate would end property taxes, slash per-pupil spending and boost religious schools and homeschooling.
9:49 AM · Jun 12, 2022

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/doug-mastriano-education-plan-pennsylvania-20220612.html

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Say this about the GOP’s candidate for governor in Pennsylvania, the right-wing extremist State Sen. Doug Mastriano: His plans for what he and a presumably Republican-led state legislature will do if they win in November are pretty clear and easy to understand.

Abortion? Mastriano says, “I want to ban abortion, period” — even in cases of rape, incest or health risks to the mother. Guns? He says he’d make Pennsylvania “a Second Amendment sanctuary” for unrestricted firearms ownership. And he’s promised to name a secretary of state who shares his belief in Donald Trump’s Big Lie about 2020 election fraud.

So why aren’t more people talking about his simple, radical plan for the issue that voters tend to care the most about: the education of roughly 2 million children currently attending K-12 schools in the Keystone State? Because here, too, Mastriano has been crystal clear on what he would do. The only part left unsaid is what education experts say would be the ultimate impact of the Republican’s agenda: decimating Pennsylvania’s public schools as we know them.

Here’s how Mastriano himself explained the plan in March, during a radio interview with WRTA. At a moment of fraught debate and a high-profile lawsuit about how well, and equitably, Pennsylvania funds its public schools, Mastriano actually believes taxpayer spending on education can be slashed by more than half. He cited a ballpark estimate of what Pennsylvania currently spends, on average, on a pupil: $19,000 annually.

“I think instead of 19,000 [dollars], we fund each student around 9,000 or 10,000 and they can decide which school to go to, public school, private school, religious school, cyber school or home school,” Mastriano said. “And the money goes to the kids. And I believe that would incentivize and drive down the costs of public education.”

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[Turbineguy]

1. Education is a danger to the republican party.

[onecaliberal]

2. Why do they not talk about trump trying to overthrow the US government?

This fuck helped to pay for it.