Alabama

eppur_se_muova

(39,062 posts) Wed Jan 27, 2016, 01:05 PM Jan 2016

AL Repugs are warring on teachers again ...

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AL Repugs are warring on teachers again ... (Original Post) eppur_se_muova Jan 2016 OP

The majority Republican assault... yallerdawg Jan 2016 #1

It is a back door tax break for people already wealthy enough to send their kids to private world wide wally Jan 2016 #2

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

1. The majority Republican assault...

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Wed Jan 27, 2016, 02:01 PM

Jan 2016

on Public Education continues.

Private school vouchers started now.

Private schools:

Public schools:

What is the goal, we wonder?

world wide wally

(21,836 posts)

2. It is a back door tax break for people already wealthy enough to send their kids to private

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Wed Jan 27, 2016, 11:47 PM

Jan 2016

schools. This will give them a refund on tuition. It also redirects money from public schools to religious schools.
This plan was hatched during the Reagan years when they published the greatly embellished study called "A Nation At Risk" which attacked public education

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