Posted on 01/29/2025 2:20:22 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
President Trump on Wednesday issued an executive order that prioritizes and frees up federal funding for school choice programs, directing the Secretaries of Education and Labor to "review their respective discretionary grant programs and each submit a plan" within 90 days on how to expand school choice.
The executive order also directs the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, to submit a plan to Mr. Trump for how military families can use Defense Department funds to send their kids to the school of their choosing.
More broadly, it directs the Department of Education to prioritize school choice programs through its discretionary grant programs, and orders the Department of Health and Human Services to issue guidance on how states receiving block grants for families and children can use those funds to support private and faith-based institutions.
CBS News reviewed details of the executive order on Tuesday night.
The executive order also directs the Department of Education to issue guidance to states on how to use federal funding formulas — which determine how much money to allocate to districts and schools — to support their K-12 scholarship programs.
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As an Army Brat between 5th and 6th grades my dad was forced to into 3 different houses and I attended 5 different schools, did not do very well that year. Could have cut it to two schools with this program.
This is great. The government schools need to be weakened in any way possible.
A lot of people will say, “Yes, many public schools are bad. But I am so lucky. The public school in my town is wonderful. I am so glad that my children attend such a wonderful public school.”
In my opinion, those people are just fooling themselves. Government schools are always awful. Some of them are just good at fooling people. I’d like to see them all ended.
This is a game changer. It’s one to keep on the front burner. It’s also an issue to carry into every low income neighborhood in urban America. The poor moms know exactly whose children are being sacrificed to the teachers’ unions, and they queue up instantly for any chance to get their kids out of low-performing public schools.
The teacher’s union will not like this.
This is honestly a little confusing to me. I thought we were eliminating the Department of Education?
>>A lot of people will say, “Yes, many public schools are bad. But I am so lucky. The public school in my town is wonderful.”
With school choice they are still free to CHOOSE a government school, they just couldn’t make that decision for others.
Sequencing is everything in order to break up the blue hair cat lady union. The system has to be collapsed.
Sure. When people actually have options, all of the available options have to work to become better and more worthy of being chosen.
Liberal heads exploding!
I’ve sent my daughter to a private school all her life and I am opposed to “school choice.”
Favor of “School Choice” seems to be looking at private schools the way migrants look at USA. They view it as a way of improving the education of the students that will attend private schools but give little or no consideration how the presense of these new students will effect the private schools.
The teachers at private schools are not necesarily better then those at public schools. What makes the biggest difference is almost every parent at a private school is heavily involved.
The idea of school choice is to integrate the children of non engaged parents in the system made by engaged parents and hoping the private school will somehow magically remain the same.
the difference is, private school do not have to take anyone they don’t want.
There are certainly some busy beavers in the White House!
frees up federal funding for school choice programs,
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so can these funds be used for muslim schools? I suspect it can.......................
So far I love school choice in my state. My only concern is how well are able to prevent abuse and fraud. How many people are able to falsely claim they are home schooling or attending a small private school when they aren’t. Or how many fraudulent fake schools will suddenly pop up that are fronts?
“A lot of people will say, “Yes, many public schools are bad. But I am so lucky. The public school in my town is wonderful. I am so glad that my children attend such a wonderful public school.””
I mock those people because they know ALL public schools suck, but they still have to justify sending their kids to them.
If they were honest, they’d say something like:
“I know public schools suck and are dangerous, but I need to send my kids to public school so I can have the 3,000 sq-ft house, with a jacked-up car (in case there’s an earthquake on the way to the office), and the boat. Anyway, it’s not problem to deal with, it’s my kids’ problem. If I actually PAID to send my kids to school, or if my wife stayed home to educate them, then I wouldn’t be able to afford the necessities in life (mentioned above) and might even have to live in horrific, whacked-out, neighborhood, possibly even with, God forbid, Trump voters.”
So people lie.
Yes and you might hate to hear this, but some Canadian provinces and certainly France and Belgium as another example, have much freer and fair school choices than America. Even while Catholic schools just as an example turn out better performing students than the public system.
There is this myth that private school parents are rich. Yes, for those elite private schools that charge $50,000 per student but not the average faith based school.
They take federal/state money then They’ll eventually be the recipient of federal regulation.
Bingo. School vouchers only turn private schools into public schools.
When a school accepts government funding, it accepts the regulations that go along with it.
Some colleges, such as Hillsdale, refuse government funding, just to remain independent.
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