President Trump is definitely not a proponent for children, and those who rely on our public schools for their education…
Just the fact his selection of Betsy DeVos , an unqualified, billionaire who has strong ties to religious, private schools…as secretary of education….
I knew our public schools were in trouble…
With the fewer resources and funding this administration has taken from public education…and putting those funds into privatization…
And Now…this week at the State of the Union, post Impeachment… President Trump had an opportunity to vindicate the past…
He most definitely did not… He made his State of the Union Speech…a bid for his reelection….His little regard for our public schools calling them government schools…is absolutely disgraceful!
Taking this momentous occasion as an opportunity to stage a young student, who he said attended a public school, to be a recipient of the Education Freedom Scholarship…so she would be able to attend a private school…(Which is reportedly false)
…She is already attending a prominent private school!He then revealed that he
for wanted Congress to fund 1 million dollars to that Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act- for those worthy students….Adding:
“Because no parent should be forced to send their child to a failing government schools!
He also urged Congress to pass legislation,
creating a 5 billion federal tax credit program that would fund scholarships to private and religious schools… benefitting individuals and donors…
The scholarships would be funded by individuals and businesses who want to privately donate but who would then receive a federal tax credit…
The President did call for more vocational and technical education at the high school level…And the importance of the constitutional right for prayer in schools...
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers union, said in a statement: “Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos have made no secret of their antipathy for public education. Rather than strengthen the cornerstone of our democracy and the chief enabler of pluralism and opportunity, they choose to defund and destabilize it. No amount of rebranding vouchers and privatization as ‘choice’ and ‘freedom’ changes that...
Janis Sexton...Teacher...Advocate 