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Religious curricula funded by tax-credit school vouchers have become a cash cow for many private schools.
President Donald Trump is being praised for a change in tone in his recent address to Congress, but his belligerent attitude toward public education hasnt changed a bit.
While its true he stopped short of repeating his claims that public schools are broken and a government monopoly, what Trump chose to highlight in his remarks about public schools was a story about a student who left them.
During his education remarks, Trump called out a guest of his in the audience, Denisha Merriweather, who, he says, struggled in school and failed third grade twice. But then she was able to enroll in a private center for learning, with the help of a tax credit scholarship program. Today, she is the first in her family to graduate, not just from high school, but from college. Later this year she will get her masters degree in social work.
Education writers were quick to jump on Trumps shout-out to speculate that an education tax-credit proposal, like the one Merriweather took advantage of in Florida, would be just the sort of plan Trump would try to push through Congress.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trumps-school-choice-plan-religious-fundamentalism-taxpayer-expense
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The Constitution does not provide for state support of religion. It provides for tolerance.
Girard442
(6,070 posts)Cthulu. Come for an education. Sit on the floor in an unheated basement watching Fox TV while the founder counts his $$$.
HAB911
(8,880 posts)Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)Then it's time to grab the popcorn, sit back and enjoy a spectacular show.
edhopper
(33,567 posts)is intended for. public funds for private and religious schools.