Not sure about this. I went to private schools for most of my life but understand as an older man that Public school systems need more support. He can do what he wants and there is nothing I am mad about, but yea...private schools don't need any more support.
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Not sure about this. I went to private schools for most of my life but understand as an older man that Public school systems need more support. He can do what he wants and there is nothing I am mad about, but yea...private schools don't need any more support.
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Stop. Public schools are crumbling due to a lack of sufficient funding. If this legislation passes, it will make things even worse. They want to use tax-payer money to fund these bullshyt voucher programs. Programs that have been shown to *not* benefit Black students.
Why would you believe this? He has thrown his lot in with the Jeffrey Yass/Betsy DeVos agenda of dismantling the Public school system across the country. This is bad.
Billionaires Yass, DeVos Team Up to Dismantle Public Schools Across the US - Little Sis
Former Education Secretary Betsy Devos has teamed up with billionaire trader and TikTok investor Jeff Yass to dismantle public education by spending tens of millions on state elections to pass charter and private school voucher bills.
littlesis.org
He isn't paying anything. The money is coming out of the tax-payers pocket at the expense of public schools.He’s not donating money to the schools. He’s paying for their tuition. Is there a large low income white/jewish community in Philly?
King Harlem
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Also, there are a lot of Charter schools (several ones that are predominately Black - including the Jalen Rose Academy, Civicorps, etc). To paint them all negatively isn't fair and they should be judged from school to school
BINGO!
You get funding for kids long enough to say the charter schools are sustainable, close enough of the public school until charter and private are primary options. Then with state budgets dropping, the charter schools will close based on funding unless you have a Jay-Z doing private funding and fundraising every few years.
Charter schools are notorious for cooking the numbers by denying the kids that don’t perform well. It’s a feel-good idea with long term consequences.
What u gonna do for these kids?
Jalen’s school is the minority. Charter schools are 100% for profit. The majority of them, regardless of racial makeups, will run the schools barebones to get the largest profit.
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The war on public schools is the stealth issue of the 2024 campaign | Will Bunch
Billionaires like Pennsylvania's Jeff Yass are accelerating the buying of politicians for "school choice," despite mounting evidence it doesn't work.
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Billionaire Jeff Yass Avoids Taxes and Buys School Voucher Policies
...And it's not surprising at all that Yass, like Betsy DeVos, has parlayed being a tax-avoiding billionaire into driving the kind of public policy that will have its most severe impact on the poorest families in the country.
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Umar finally about to get that HVAC system and open that school 
Nah but for real this is a bad initiative
Nah but for real this is a bad initiative
Pull Up the Roots
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Yeah optics it looks bad like it looks like a tax write off to me
King Harlem
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I haven't read all the fine print on this yet, but if the ultimate outcome is for more underprivileged Black children to receive a better overall education than I'm for it.
Formerly Black Trash
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Typical
Private schools typically are more college focused with their classes and curriculum and have less students per class…why not give young poor hopefully black kids an opportunity to go when they otherwise would never have a chance
Why do y'all have so much faith in public education when studies have shown that it caters young white girls? Black children are punished more , especially young black boys.
We aren't honest about how money is spent in public education and we need more male teachers and teachers of color in there. Why not give young black kids a leg up in private education?
My sister and I did some private school growing up. I was given the opportunity to go to a STEM focused magnet school but my mother didn't have the money. Who knows what would have happened if we had the money to do so.
We aren't honest about how money is spent in public education and we need more male teachers and teachers of color in there. Why not give young black kids a leg up in private education?
My sister and I did some private school growing up. I was given the opportunity to go to a STEM focused magnet school but my mother didn't have the money. Who knows what would have happened if we had the money to do so.
Formerly Black Trash
Philosopher, Connoisseur, Future Legend
These schools are PRIVATEWhy do y'all have so much faith in public education when studies have shown that it caters young white girls? Black children are punished more , especially young black boys.
We aren't honest about how money is spent in public education and we need more male teachers and teachers of color in there. Why not give young black kids a leg up in private education?
My sister and I did some private school growing up. I was given the opportunity to go to a STEM focused magnet school but my mother didn't have the money. Who knows what would have happened if we had the money to do so.
Why do yall have faith that a proposed voucher system to let kids from all walks of life EN MASSE is done in good faith?
It would defeat the purpose
Those schools are exclusive by nature, doing this lowers their value