In another attack on the nation’s public schools, American Duce wannabe Donald Trump and his Know Nothing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon have (probably illegally) impounded (halted) the Congressionally approved disbursement of five federal education programs totaling $6.2 billion. According to a press release by Save Our Schools Arizona, the federal education programs impacted are: … Read more
Over the last week, 12 News and AZ Central Investigative Reporter Craig Harris has broadcast a series of reports on the now billion dollar a year Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA)-Private School Voucher Program that MAGA Republicans would like to formalize in the State Constitution. The apparent conclusions from Harris’s reporting (there are still more … Read more
This budget, despite its temporary provisions to reduce income (but not payroll) taxes on tips and overtime, car loan interest, and a slightly expanded tax credit for qualifying individuals and families is another example of MAGA Republican Snake Oil that will not move the country forward, make our international competitors stronger, and pull people down. … Read more
In a move probably prompted by a friendly Trump regime in Washington and the perception that the United States Supreme Court may be about to grant access for religious charter schools to receive public monies in Oklahoma, Arizona MAGA Republican legislators are seeking to formalize the existence of Empowerment Scholarship Private School Accounts in the … Read more
By issuing today’s Executive Order to hollow out and dismantle the United States Department of Education, Felon in Chief Donald Trump is fulfilling multiple desires in continuing his and his MAGA movement’s war against knowledge, history, science, the American Dream for minorities and poor children, the disabled, Democracy, and public education along with enriching his … Read more