This should come as no surprise. Since the 2022 passage of the expansion of the Empowerment Scholarship Program (ESA,) people like writers on this Blog and public school advocates have continually warned that such a move would welcome waste, fraud, abuse, and a race to soak up hardworking working and middle class tax payer dollars … Read more
When Democrats regain power in all the branches of the federal government, one of the first legislative acts they must take is undoing all the horrible provisions of the Trump/MAGA Big Billionaire Reverse Robin Hood law that has robbed safety net security from the poor and the country’s clean energy dominance in order to pay … Read more
A couple of days after the latest revelations that families enrolled in the Empowerment Scholarship Account Welfare for the Wealthy Private School Voucher Scam Program have been getting away with questionable purchases under $2,000 of working and middle class taxpayer money for items like lingerie, diamond rings, and above ground pools, 12 News Muckraking Reporter … Read more
Purchasing Lingerie as an education expense? How about diamond rings? Or vacations at high end resorts? These are some of the questionable $2,000 or under expenses, uncovered by 12 News Journalist/Muckraker Craig Harris, that have been legally approved and processed through the state’s billion dollar Empowerment Scholarship Welfare for the Wealthy Private School Voucher Program … Read more
When I first heard about Craig Harris’s report yesterday about ESA-Private School Voucher Parents hoarding scholarship funds and saving them to fund, among other mysterious needs, their children’s college education, I thought this sounds familiar. Looking back at past articles, I found one I wrote in June, 2024 where the headline read, “State Republicans Cut … Read more