The Atlantic / Adam Serwer: The Great Resegregation

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19. Trump and his sycophant Republicans have come up with a new way to fund private school vouchers.

It is a thinly disguised plan to use tax dollars to fund private education for mostly white kids, a way to re-segregate schools.

WaPo has an article about the plan. The following paragraphs describe some of the resistance because it is clearly a way to weaken public schools and promote religious schools that indoctrinate students to believe in racial superiority and MAGA religious extremism. Technically, minority donors could also make donations, but it’s not clear who gets to decide on how the funds are used. Red state politicians would be sure to fund white schools. The whole article is worth reading because it also describes how donations of stock to voucher funds would be used not only to avoid capital gains but also to then take a 100% tax credit for the stock value.

“We’re making sure the public understands this is the greatest threat to public education we’ve ever had at the federal level,” said Sasha Pudelski, director of advocacy for AASA, the School Superintendents Association, who helps lead a coalition of more than 60 groups opposed to the voucher plan.

Pudelski noted that unlike public schools, private schools can reject students based on their religion, test scores, disability or ability to pay tuition. The vast majority of vouchers in existing state programs go to religious schools.”

https://wapo.st/4icgl0j