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School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
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#Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-school-vouchers-budget-meltdown

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

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Jul 16, 2024 at 6:41pmWeb
Show threadLady of Mystery and ScienceJul 16, 2024
@ProPublica
Oh no! Who could possibly have foreseen this! Besides everyone, that is.
Show threadDon WatkinsJul 16, 2024
@ProPublica Not surprising. All these privatization ventures are ways to funnel public money to corporate interests.
Show threadAnvil of TruthJul 16, 2024
@ProPublica only one solution! Destroy the republicans at the poles in November.
Show threadHoigwaiJul 16, 2024
@ProPublica A bad idea is bad, imagine that.
Show threadjbhughesJul 16, 2024
@ProPublica I thought Republicans were supposed to be smart about business and finance and stuff like that.
Show threadOldFartPhilJul 17, 2024
@jbhughes @ProPublica They're doing exactly what business wants them to do; take hundreds of millions of dollars from the public coffers and give it to the private school industry.
Show threadNicole ParsonsJul 16, 2024

@ProPublica

Using public education for budget overruns was the plan all along for Yass and Koch.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/07/arizona-fight-koch-brothers-school-vouchers

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/02/08/arizona-ground-zero-koch-attack-public-education/

Profiting personally from the public purse is to what Republican megadonors aspire.

https://www.propublica.org/article/rural-republicans-school-vouchers-education-choice

https://nepc.colorado.edu/blog/arizona-vouchers

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/19/politics/arizona-private-school-vouchers-invs/index.html

https://littlesis.org/news/billionaires-yass-devos-team-up-to-dismantle-public-schools-across-the-us/

https://otherduties.substack.com/p/billionaire-jeff-yass-avoids-taxes

Billionaires v teachers: the Koch brothers' plan to starve public education

A small group of women have succeeded in putting a state law promoted by Betsy DeVos and billionaire donors which they see as an attack on public education on the ballot in November

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Show thread(moved)Galbinus Caeli 🌯Jul 16, 2024
@ProPublica why would anyone think it would save money? Its a privatization plan to transfer public funds to private hands.
Show threadjmhtJul 16, 2024
@ProPublica Free money! lol
Show threadwbpeckhamJul 16, 2024
@ProPublica School voucher systems have no purpose other than to siphon money out of the already dangerously underfunded public education system.
Show threadMyOpinionJul 16, 2024
@ProPublica As always this is the Republican plan to destroy the finances of the government and cut programs. This is what they do.
Show threadWayne WernerJul 17, 2024
@ProPublica this is my shocked face 😐
Show threadPhil Stevens Jul 17, 2024
@ProPublica bUt neW zEaLanD iS diFferEnt
Show threadLisa Gets PolitikJul 17, 2024
@ProPublica This will repeat itself across the country if #project2025 gets implemented: the goal is to privatize all education.
Show threadKanaMaunaJul 17, 2024
@ProPublica Exactly as planned.
Show threadLillyLyle/Count MelancholiaJul 17, 2024
@ProPublica Private schools are poison in a society.
Show thread.vad//hakara🧭Jul 17, 2024
@ProPublica The purpose of school vouchers was never to save money, that was just the lie they used to sell to the gullible public. School vouchers exist for the purpose of re-implementing class and racial segregation while defunding traditional public educational facilities.
Show threadLeoKeyz🌱Jul 18, 2024
@ProPublica well that explains a lot...
Show threadMatt JordanJul 18, 2024
@ProPublica it’s always a grift.
Show threadInternet RandoJul 18, 2024

@ProPublica I only realized recently, that the *whole point* behind School Vouchers, Charter schools, and privatizing (or more accurately, starving public) schools is really just a wedge to separate (what) the rich (kids are taught) from (what) the poor (kids are taught)..

Why don't progressive politicians ever point this out? Oh right, they're rich too.