Posted on 07/27/2020 5:32:20 AM PDT by Enlightened1
President Trump has been advocating for schools to reopen after many students were stuck at home for months amid the coronavirus crisis. And now he's calling for $105 billion of education funding to be included in Congress's next coronavirus-related legislative package.
"To encourage schools to make in-person classes available this fall, the President is requesting $105 billion in education funding as part of the next coronavirus relief bill—$70 billion of which will directly support K-12 education," a White House release says, noting that about half of that "$70 billion will be reserved for schools that reopen."
An outspoken school choice advocate, the president during a Thursday press conference said that if schools do not reopen parents should be able to use the funding to have their child educated elsewhere through homeschooling, public schools, private schools or charter schools, including religious institutions.
"We're asking Congress to provide $105 billion dollars to schools as part of the next coronavirus relief bill. This funding will support mitigation measures such as smaller class sizes, more teachers and teacher aides, repurposing spaces to practice social distancing and crucially, mask wearing," the president said.
"This money is in addition to the $30 billion dollars we secured for schools and universities earlier this year. That money we have, some is distributed and some is not distributed. If schools do not reopen, the funding should go to parents to send their child to public, private, charter, religious or homeschool of their choice—the key word being choice. If the school is closed the money should follow the student so the parents and families are in control of their own decision. So we'd like the money to go to the parents of the student..
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I love it!
Good twist.
I love him.
Yes!
And now we, the tax payer should start asking for a refund on our taxes, if the schools are closed.
Amen. Amen. And Amen.
Why give any money to schools and universities. .... Open or closed?
Biden claims his universal health care proposal would cost $75 billion a year, $30 billion less than that $105 billion for the next twelve months.
States can get plenty of money for schools by raising their gas taxes.
I hope the Rats have painted themselves into a corner.
Will Dems allow this? How is “reopened” defined? The hybrid model of 2 days a week (better than nothing).
The idea is to make $$ available for private schools if public schools don’t or won’t reopen.
My daughter’s private Christian HS was all set to reopen, but our tyrannical governor (CA) shut them down too—so the $$ could only go to hire tutors. Which I would do.
Great to be a tutor these days.
States could also raise sales tax rates to fund their schools.
Sounds like Biden math.
Rats have made baskets for RINOs to fill with federal funds.
and if they open in a hybrid model a percentage should go to either the patents or the taxpayers
Parents might actually FIGHT to keep their schools closed in this scenario.
#WINNING.
#MAGA.
PDJT has just taken the “school closure” card away from the Dems and blue state Governors.
Now, when schools don’t re-open and the parents start asking why can’t the schools open, (since children are, (scientifically), proven not to be susceptible to or the source of the Wuhan flu), PDJT and his team can pound the fact that the funds need to be placed in the parent’s hands to decide what is best for their kids.
Even if the House refuses to agree to this, he has the issue and talking points in his favor. Parents want their kids in school and they want to be able to get back to work. A lot of the parents not working now are doing so because they can’t afford babysitters in order to go to work.
NO thanks! Here in Texas we already pay a shitload in property tax AND sales tax. And the schools are nothing more than day care centers for ILLEGALS and welfare crackheads.
“We’re asking Congress to provide $105 billion dollars to schools as part of the next coronavirus relief bill.”
Why ask for additional money? Can’t they just reallocate what’s in the budged for schools now, and give it to parents — NOW? In some places, it costs up to $20K/year to “educate” one child. It would be great to see that money going from parents directly to organizations that actually teach.
I’d love to see the looks on teachers’ and union hot-shots’ faces when they see “their” money all-of-a-sudden circling the drain. They’re so smug in their assurance that nothing can touch them — that they’ll be paid whether or not they go to work.
I am a 61-year old male.
I am well acquainted with the grandmother lifestyle.
With a two day a week school schedule, millions of grandmas will have to take care if Dick and Jane three days a week.
Grandmas and grandpas will get exposed to COVID danger three days a week and will die in the thousands.
Good luck getting that through Congress.
And the next step should be refunds of the school tax portion of property taxes.
I live in Florida.
Our state constitution requires a uniform high quality K-12 education system.
Online education doesn’t meet the high quality requirement.
Parental opt-out violates the uniform provision requirement.
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