They also argue that the scholarship program pulls poor
students out of the public school system in favor of private schools, diminishing funds to nearly 2.8 million children served by public schools.
Her background was in business and finance, all the better to drain
money out of the public schools and place it where profits can be made from our children.
The scheme would funnel public
funds out of public schools and into private schools by allowing parents to use a voucher to pay for some or all of their child's private school tuition.
Additionally, parents and other community members not in favor of such court mandates could pull their students
out of the public schools if they have the resources.
I hope American Atheists will drop this and focus on more important things, like insuring that religious teachings
stay out of public school science classrooms.
Outstanding and effective teachers are purposefully being
pushed out of public schools to make room for business controlled charter schools.
Research shows that the decision to
choose out of a public school often has more to do with the experiences of parents than it does the experiences of their children.
Since its inception, private school choice has been a vehicle to empower parents whose children are trapped in traditional public schools that fail to meet their needs, or, during segregation,
kept out of the public schools that black families paid taxes into.
All this money that Danny Boy and Pryor «need» for their dwindling school budgets and the damn thing is that all the big boys want is to leach our tax
dollars out of the public schools into their profits and turn our public schools into «What's Left Academies».
Muldrow told me she moved her older child
out of the public schools because of «experiences that were not only negative, but were particularly racialized» and that with vouchers, «private schools retain the ability to discriminate and don't have to provide the same services to students as public schools.»
Multiple this times $ 6,000 per student and it is likely that K12 INC takes $ 48 million per year
out of public schools in our state.
On the heels of Tuesday's election, four Democratic legislators are planning a bill to give property taxpayers the final say on whether they want to be on the hook for tax dollars taken
directly out of public schools to fund vouchers.
But homeschoolers who don't opt
out of the public school for religious reasons — they may, instead be concerned about school safety, academic quality, or other important issues — do not necessarily start off thinking of themselves as secular.
So your irrational fear that taking
god out of public schools and the public in general would lead to a huge catastrophe is ridiculous and is fear mongering that I am sure has been hammered into your head since you were a child.
The charge has been that money is being
diverted out of the public school system to benefit the private and parochial school kids, and as a result, some 9,000 black and Latino students get short - changed.
Special education has been
driven out of public schools by Arne Duncan and parents who subscribed to the idea that inclusion is the only way to go!
Under the constant pressure of Roman Catholics and non-Christians during the nineteenth century, most religious emphasis was gradually
forced out of the public schools.
This concept has kept instruction in the world's greatest literary masterpiece and its most influential body of
literature out of the public schools and hence out of the primary channel for the transmission of our cultural heritage.
Closed minded petty tyrants such as Mr. Nye have successfully pushed G -
d out of the public school and thus created a generation populated with teenage berserkers.
3) Be aware that the same laws that keep your
religion out of public schools also keep other people from trying to convert your children to their religion at public schools.
One area where we atheists have performed a valuable community service is in keeping creationism and other religious
dogma out of public schools.