Texas House Democrats Vote to Defeat Private School Voucher Scams

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Greg Abbott, his major donors and the Texas GOP Senate want to destroy public schools with a voucher plan. The Texas House has defeated this plan several times. I have been polled three or four times on vouchers/school choice in part because I have a landline. Three of these polls were in effect push type polls trying to generate false polling results to help the Abbott school voucher plan.

Once again, the Abbott school voucher plan has failed.

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[calimary]

1. Excellent!

More of this! More, please!

[RussBLib]

2. Abbott is obsessed with vouchers

...he is planning for as many Special Sessions as it takes. The guy is a fucking lunatic.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/

[AllaN01Bear]

3. you wanna goto a private school, goto a private school. otherwise leave public schools alone.

[OldBaldy1701E]

4. But, but.. we don't wanna have to pay for it too!!

I recently read that 95% of people who claimed vouchers to use in their 'choice of schools' already have their kids in the private school of their choice. So, in fact, it is not about choices, but about defunding public schools to add funding to private schools and those institutions that are passing themselves off as a 'school'. There is a difference between educating and learning. One is information that is given to students. The other is a process whereby students use their ability to learn things to... well... learn things. We have all but stopped teaching how to learn since just spewing facts is easier. Critical thinking is at an all time low around this nation. This crap that Texas rethugs were trying to do is part of that problem. After all, these animals could care less about our collective society and only care about their own d**kwaving and supposed power.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Greg is failing at his job

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[Liberal In Texas]

6. Good. The rural red areas don't like it either.

They know it won't do anything to help them and it will cause even fewer resources to be sent to their public schools.

[UTUSN]

7. K&R

[summer_in_TX]

8. The whole thing is a huge scam on Abbott's part.

They never mention the Charter Schools that in Texas they already made semi-public by voting that they would get the minimum daily allotment for their student attendance, just like public schools do. They don't get to get any money from property taxes however, and there's minimal scrutiny of their finances and such. Students do have to take the state student assessments however. So they are quasi-public private entities. Charter schools are allowed to innovate with their curriculum. So there's no need for private school vouchers – unless they simply want to enable private education equity funds to skim off millions of taxpayer dollars. So glad it went down in flames for a fourth time this year.