Posted on 03/03/2017 2:53:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Days after he called on Congress to pass a school choice bill, President Donald Trump is set to visit a Catholic school in Orlando Friday, along with Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, where hundreds of students attend the school using a voucher from the state's tax credit scholarship program.
During his stop at St. Andrew Catholic School, Trump is expected to once again tout the Sunshine State's program, as he did in his recent address to Congress. Under Florida's plan, the state uses public dollars to pay for private K-12 school tuition for low-income students and students with disabilities.
The Trump administration has yet to outline how it will pursue the president's plan to steer $20 billion in federal funding to school choice policies – a pledge he made on the campaign trail. His forthcoming budget is likely to restore and expand the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship, but it's unclear whether a larger school choice package will come in the form of voucher or a tax credit.
But in a new report published Friday, researchers for the Center for American Progress argue that a voucher plan may not be a viable policy solution for 85 percent of the country's school districts....
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Given current usage “choice” makes that is a startling headline.
As the father of a toddler and major critic of the public education system, this was one of the biggest issues for me this election season.
I’m very pleased. Hate how all the news coverage is so blatantly biased against the idea that parents should have some choice in their children’s education.
:) I thought the exact same thing when I saw the headline. Yipes!
Fix headline, please. When you talk about someone preaching Choice to a Catholic school, it implies abortion, not schools. Thank you!
I mean, really, I know the Pope is real liberal and all, but I don’t think they’ve gone that far, yet.
I wasn’t saying the Catholics preach pro-abortion. I was saying that *liberals* are constantly preaching pro-abortion messages at Catholics to see if they can peel off a number of them. And I figured this was YAFN (Yet Another Fake News), where some journotard interpreted Trump’s speaking to a Catholic school as pushing a pro-abort message.
Would it have given someone a hernia to type out 6 more letters to that headline and make it SCHOOL CHOICE?
I believe the protocol for Free Republic is to post the exact title of an article.
Media misleading titles are due a qualifier.
See addendum to title.
Here’s a video of Pres Trump at the school:
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/837763582246866944
A few pictures of it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3529190/posts?page=2833#2833
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3529190/posts?page=2861#2861
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3529190/posts?page=2883#2883
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3529190/posts?page=2921#2921
American Center for Progress??!!
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