tultican22h ago
Craig Harris: Taxpayer-funded school vouchers used for Disneyland trips and international travel. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/craig-harris-taxpayer-funded-school-vouchers-used-for-disneyland-trips-and-international-travel/ #Privatization
Craig Harris: Taxpayer-funded school vouchers used for Disneyland trips and international travel. - Network For Public Education

12News Reporter Craig Harris, with the aid of Princeton professor Jen Jennings, has been uncovering the many questionable uses of taxpayer dollars by voucher recipients in Arizona. Here’s just one sampling: Documents reviewed by 12News Investigates show that money from Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program has been used for expenses tied to trips in […]

Network For Public Education
tultican1d ago
TX: A New Center Tracks Vouchers - It is a great new tool for taxpayers and parents. https://open.substack.com/pub/curmudgucation/p/tx-a-new-center-tracks-vouchers?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #Privatization
TX: A New Center Tracks Vouchers

Our Schools Our Democracy was set up in 2024 “to protect the fundamental rights of all Texans to a free, quality public education” at a time when those rights were under a concerted attack.

Curmudgucation
tultican1d ago
Josh Cowen testified to the Texas House about vouchers and managed to predict a few things about the Texas taxpayer-funded voucher program. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/josh-cowen-the-education-freedom-myth-gets-its-wild-west-makeover/ #Privatization
Josh Cowen: The "Education Freedom" Myth Gets Its Wild West Makeover - Network For Public Education

Josh Cowen testified to the Texas House about vouchers and managed to predict a few things about the Texas taxpayer-funded voucher program. Look. No one likes “I told you so.” But last spring, Texas did pass its voucher bill despite my testimony, and despite the fact-based opposition of folks like Talarico and Hinojosa. And those […]

Network For Public Education
tultican3d ago
NE: Trying To Get Vouchers Past Voters - Vouchers never win when voters have a chance to be heard. https://open.substack.com/pub/curmudgucation/p/ne-trying-to-get-vouchers-past-voters?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #Privatization
NE: Trying To Get Vouchers Past Voters

Nebraska’s voucher fans are bound and determined, like legislators in many states, to get around the voters so they can get vouchers installed.

Curmudgucation
tultican4d ago
Heather Cox Richardson Interviews Josh Cowen about Vouchers - The voucher movement has turned into a means of building a society that sustains the white Christian nationalism of its funders. https://dianeravitch.net/2026/03/19/heather-cox-richardson-interviews-josh-cowen-about-vouchers/ via @dianeravitch #Privatization
Heather Cox Richardson Interviews Josh Cowen about Vouchers

I was delighted to see that the very popular Heather Cox Richardson invited Josh Cowen to talk about the ominous spread of vouchers. HCR made clear that public schools are an essential element in b…

Diane Ravitch's blog
tultican4d ago
The Century Foundation: The Federal Voucher Program is a Hoax and a Fraud https://dianeravitch.net/2026/03/19/the-century-foundation-the-federal-voucher-program-is-a-hoax-and-a-fraud/ via @dianeravitch #Privatization
The Century Foundation: The Federal Voucher Program is a Hoax and a Fraud

The Century Foundation published an analysis of Trump’s federal voucher program, which explains why it is a hoax and a fraud. The authors are Kayla Patrick and Loredana Valtierra. The promise…

Diane Ravitch's blog
Algernon D'Ammassa6d ago

“Passenger rail is being remade as a luxury lifestyle product—suggesting the problem isn’t trains, but the indignity of using them when they are so badly run.”

https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-heaven-of-train-travel/

#trains #privatization #latecapitalism #transit #oilandgas

The Heaven of Train Travel - Dissent Magazine

Passenger rail is being remade as a luxury lifestyle product—suggesting the problem isn’t trains, but the indignity of using them when they are so badly run.

Dissent Magazine
tulticanMar 15
Shawgi Tell looks at a New Hampshire proposal that show just how far some privatizers are willing to go. Most Criminal Charter School Proposal Ever? https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/shawgi-tell-nh-most-criminal-charter-school-proposal-ever/ #Privatization
Shawgi Tell: NH: Most Criminal Charter School Proposal Ever? - Network For Public Education

Shawgi Tell looks at a New Hampshire proposal that show just how far some privatizers are willing to go.  The chasm between consciousness and anti-consciousness continues to grow in the context of failing economies and failed states at home and abroad. In this fractured and decaying context where the gap between authoritarianism and democracy grows […]

Network For Public Education
Ev DelenMar 14

#DougFord is building a Chuck-E-Cheese style grift with his "#Ontario Elementary Teachers Resource Portal", with him or his donors poised to be the one hand to out high margin tat to #Teachers.

Like with his #Recycling #Privatization, it'll end up costing taxpayers more and we'll be worse for it, but he and his donors will get $$$!

Instead of just sending teachers an Electronic Fund Transfer*, which would be the cheaper, faster, more secure method, and provides customers to local stores, he's setting up a portal where teachers will spend Ford Bucks at the Ford Supply Store.

Where a teacher might spend $5 for a box of markers at their local store, they'll instead spend 5 Ford Bucks to get it from a central facility.

But those markers will eventually be stocked at a cost to taxpayers of $10/pack, and that's where he'll profit!

The local store loses $5 revenue and eventually closes.

*Ford sent COVID Cheques instead of EFTs b/c he wanted to bribe voters with their money during a crisis.

#ONPoli #Corruption

IncognitimMar 13

The trump admin is reviewing proposals to break up one of the world’s leading #climate and #weather laboratories, transfer its work to universities and private companies, take away its aircraft, and sell its property in #Boulder, #Colorado.

In a social media post, #RussellVought, the White House budget director, called National Center for Atmospheric Research “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.” #project2025 #privatization
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/climate/ncar-breakup-plan-nasa-noaa.html

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle NCAR Research Lab

Proposals include transferring a supercomputer to the University of Wyoming and shifting a space weather lab to a private company.

The New York Times