In March 2024, Alabama’s governor signed a bill authorizing state-funded school vouchers for students attending private schools (see story here). The funding mechanism is complicated, and intentionally so. Instead of directly paying tuition at private schools, or giving tuition vouchers to par[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Segregation’
Should taxpayer funding be used to train children in Nazi ideology?
A GOP-backed bill in the Ohio legislature would allow just that. “House Bill 11 would provide up to $1.1 billion in state funding for homeschooled children and students at non-chartered private schools,” and the recipients could include a couple who may be paid state school money “[...]
September 9th, 2017 - 12:39 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Why White Parents Won’t Choose Black Schools By Abby Norman HUFF POST FERRAN TRAITE SOLER VIA GETTY IMAGES 18k Last year when I attempted to pick my daughter up from school, the volunteers in the carpool line tried to put a fourth grader in my car, not the four year old I was attempting to [&hel[...]
March 7th, 2015 - 6:00 am § in Uncategorized
BREAKING NEWS: GOP backs down, will send token dignitary to Selma commemoration
Republicans, after snubbing the 50th anniversary commemoration of Selma’s history-making civil rights marches, have decided to send newly chosen House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as their token dignitary. Apparently no southern Republican stepped up to the task. It will be intere[...]