Republican Governors Are Spearheading Student-First Education Initiatives

Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Townhall reported how then-Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs tried to stop a school choice expansion program in her state, along with anti-school choice Democrats who support investing money into public schools rather than individual students. However, their efforts to overturn the popular program failed.

Republicans, on the other hand, have long been ardent supporters of school choice programs for students and their families. In recent years, several GOP governors have led the way in rolling out these kinds of initiatives, along with many others, that put students and their families first…



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Iowa Gov. KIM REYNOLDS announces UNIVERSAL school choice bill: "My school choice bill will create education savings accounts for families.. in 3 years every family will have a choice in education and no child will be limited by income or ZIP code."



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Florida’s Education Accomplishments: - Ended Common Core - Expanded School Choice - Record Increase in Teacher Pay - No Tuition Increases at State Universities - Investments in Early Literacy, American Civics and Workforce Education - Ended the FSA


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Governor Ron DeSantis: "part of the reason why we do school choice: it really flows out of our commitment to parents' rights when it comes to education."


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To read about all the proposals by the various governors you will have to read the article. It lists several governors and outlines their proposals in detail. It is a long but worthwhile read. They give us hope that we can get control of our schools and provide alternatives as well.

 

Students first!

 

Can anyone more knowledgeable about the US education system explain in simple terms what's going on here?

 

Red states are putting their students first in priority and care in education.

 

Were they not doing that before?

 

Yes but now they are doubling down on it and doing it over the objections of the bi coastal secular progressives and the teachers unions. More home schooling, private schools, charter schools, and combatting the Woke agenda exposed since distance learning.

 

Oh, I see.

 

Well, until I know more I'm not going to condemn it. Up until now the Republican approach to education has been thoughts and prayers, so this attention might actually bring an inadvertent cash injection, particularly to early schooling were it's needed.

I know the Right might be resistant to open the wallet with said thoughts and prayers, but it may be impossible not to do so.

 

they want to pay corporations and religions to indoctrinate our children, turn the public schools (choice real estate) into condominiums, and break the teachers unions.

republicans really don't understand education or science and have been working on a return to the dark ages for decades.

 

no. and this seems to be another slogan that they can sneak more of their indoctrination under.

 

Thanks. I was wondering why it seemed difficult to pinpoint what the actual policies were.

 

Education is primarily a local then a state issue. These Republican governors are not shorting the students or their parents in money or rights with their efforts. Nationally the GOP is now more trusted than democrats on education. School choice is one of the GOP efforts growing their support from minority communities.

 

what jindal proved over the last decade in louisiana is that moving failing kids in failing families from failing public schools to failing charter schools and failing religious schools is a failur that moves education dollars from local teachers to far away corporate management.

this is a privatization scheme too loot local taxpayers without improving student outcomes.

 

It is time for the schools to get back to the basic 3Rs where they teach spelling, capitalization and punctuation.

 

Well, you have to realize that phrases like "school choice" and "parents' rights" are just code words for the agenda of school privatization.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163817/desantis-republicans-end-public-education

The aim is to wrap a radical agenda with good-sounding catch phrases that voters can get behind. Who wouldn't be for "school choice"?

However, the REAL agenda behind this is to push private charter schools at the expense of public schools with the endgame to end public school education. How this works is that private schools can pick their students, while public schools cannot, they have to take every student. Thus, the private schools can accept the higher performing students, thus achieving better outcomes, allowing politicians to point fingers at public schools and say: See, we told you public education is worse.

At the end, this results in just more inequality. High performing students, often from rich families, in private schools, segregated from the lower performing students, often from poor families, in public schools. Pubic schools losing funding due to low performance, at the expense of private schools. Plus, tax payers' money ending up in the hands of the private school management, rather than educators. In other words, a Republican dream.

 

That sounds like fun.

 

MA, a blue state, has 832 private schools and 78 charter schools.

 

Yes. The silver lining to the Plandemic and lockdowns is that parents discovered the horse manure that was being 'taught' to their children.

All over the country parents discovered that their children were not being educated, they were being indoctrinated with all sorts of leftist woke nonsense like CRT and the gender reassignment insanity.

So now there is an effort to correct that.

 

Better than the indoctrination they receive in public schools.

 

Whereas the public schools focus on equality. Seeing as how they can't make the dumb kids smart, they aim to make the smart kids dumb. Voila! Equality.

Here is that plan in action:

https://www.newsweek.com/california...will-hurt-vulnerable-most-all-opinion-1647372

 

any particular reason you think so?

 

That is not the student's first initiative. It is basically not wanting to send kids to a particular school but the parents cannot afford private school because of their own personal financial choices. Enter the government, and give them "free money" so that they think their kids, from "the wrong side of the tracks," can now intermingle with the kids on the "right side of the tracks."

If you want to look at that this really does not improve education or the educational system, just look at Louisiana as a prime example.

https://www.educationnext.org/effec...hool-integration-response-century-foundation/

 

It is about money vouchers as part of school choice. Not whether there are charter schools, which are public schools without the beauracacy, and private schools, which are separate.

 

The religious schools won't encourage their children to change their gender.

 

How many schools have “encouraged” its kids to change genders and what is your factual proof of such?
Further, why do you believe a teacher has more influence over a parent? How many teachers of yours convinced you to do something that wasn’t normal or go against what your parents taught you?