#Public Education

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[thebeckiest]

Hello! I'm a teacher in Indiana, and things have been getting steadily more dire since I started teaching. Indiana is not a great place to teach because we have a GOP supermajority and, wow, do those guys hate public educators.

Anyway our attorney general (who I have no kind words for so I'll keep them to myself) has set up an "Education Transparency Form" so concerned members of the public can report "socialist indoctrination." He didn't bother to tell the department of education or schools that he was doing this.

Anyway, would you all do me the kind favor of spamming this thing?

[frociaggina97]

Por @pilardibujito en twitter

Dibujé este escudo que tiene la humilde intención de nuclear el espíritu de la universidad argentina.

Nuestra universidad es gratuita, pública, laica y federal. De todos y para todos.

Pueden descargarla gratis acá abajo!

Nos vemos el martes en la calle para defenderla. 🤍

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[liberalsarecool]

Public schools are a major influence on home values and community perception.

Why would you want to devalue your town and home so the wealthy 'takers' can siphon tax dollars to line their pockets?

[liberaljane]

Fund Our Schools! 🚌💛

Digital illustration of a bus filled with cats with a flat tire. Text reads, ‘fund public schools.’

[rednblacksalamander]

Latchkey Kid

[politijohn]

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Let’s go!

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[frociaggina97]

unos pocos

[littlealienproducts]

I <3 public education tote bag by CancelEmpires

[sorryiwasasleep]

nah cause now that her beef and bullshit about david tennant are making the terf fucker jkr pop up on my feed again, let’s all fucking have a discussion about what is CONSTANTLY on my mind but specifically:

Millennial Teachers I am Talking To You!!!

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STOP DECORATING CLASSROOMS WITH HARRY POTTER!!!!

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JK Rowling is a transphobic misandrist spreading violent rhetoric and when YOU, an educator, decorate your classroom with her works and characters then YOU send the message to your students and anyone else in that building that YOU are also a TERF endorsing and supporting her beliefs.

- Now— I have the benefit of being in elementary schools more often than most by nature of work and I personally have seen more than a handful of classes decorated as such in the 2023-2024 school year alone. So do not try to tell me this isn’t happening.

- I also understand and acknowledge that for most of these people— they GENUINELY DON’T KNOW THIS ABOUT JKR! They just decorate their classroom as such for nostalgia.

But that doesn’t make it acceptable. It doesn’t erase the cognitive dissonance of seeing the ‘LGBTQ+ students have a right to feel safe in schools’ signs juxtaposed with Harry Potter decor and knowing as a queer adult in that building that any trans child would NOT necessarily be safe in that school.

*I am NOT saying pull Harry Potter from your classroom bookshelf or school library. I am not saying A CHILD cannot enjoy harry potter. I am saying AS THE ADULT IN THE ROOM—

‼️TEACHERS IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOW WHAT MESSAGING YOU ARE PROJECTING!!! ‼️

You can’t just hang pictures of the characters or stuffed animals or quotes or section the tables by hogwarts house cause ‘its nostalgic’ or ‘let people have fun’ or ‘death of the author!’

ACKNOWLEDGE THE SOURCE!

ACKNOWLEDGE THE PROBLEMS!

AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WHEN YOU DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THESE THINGS TO IMPRESSIONABLE YOUNG CHILDREN LEAVES THEM WITH THE IMPRESSION (a) YOU SUPPORT TRANSPHOBIA; AND/OR (b) THAT THEY TOO SHOULD SUPPORT AND LISTEN TO TRANSPHOBES.

There are OTHER BOOKS! I promise.

[kp777]

By Jake Johnson

Common Dreams

June 25, 2024

"Instead of siphoning money and increasing tax breaks to subsidize private education, we have a responsibility to ensure all students have access to quality K-12 education."

Sen. Bernie Sanders released a report Tuesday detailing how right-wing billionaires are bankrolling coordinated efforts to privatize U.S. public education by promoting voucher programs that siphon critical funding away from already-underresourced public schools.

The report notes that last year, the American Federation for Children (AFC)—an organization funded by former Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos—"ousted state lawmakers in Iowa and Arkansas who resisted proposals to subsidize private education in states and passed expansive private school vouchers."

Aided by millions of dollars in funding from DeVos and her husband, "AFC's political affiliates and allies spent $9 million to win 277 out of 368 races to remove at least 40 incumbent lawmakers," the report adds.

The DeVos family is hardly alone in using its wealth to undercut U.S. public education. The Bradley Foundation, which has been knee-deep in efforts to privatize education in Wisconsin and across the country, spent $7.5 million in 2022 "to fund 34 state affiliates of the State Policy Network to push conservative policy agendas, including privatizing education, and $8.3 million to building a youth movement to 'win the American Culture War.'"

"The Koch-sponsored group, American Encore, has funneled substantial amounts into state governor races and ballot initiatives around the country, including more than $1.4 million to elect Arizona's former governor Doug Ducey in 2014 (who led the efforts to create the nation's first universal private school voucher)," the report adds.

"For too long, there's been a coordinated effort to sabotage our public schools and privatize our education system. Unacceptable."

The analysis also names billionaires Jess Yass of Susquehanna International Group, Richard Uihlein of Uline, and Bernard Marcus of Home Depot, all of whom have recently donated to the School Freedom Fund—a PAC that supports voucher programs and shuttering the U.S. Education Department.

School voucher programs disproportionately benefit wealthy families, analyses have shown, while undercutting the goal of serving all students within a community.

"Over the past decade, there has been a coordinated effort on the part of right-wing billionaires to undermine, dismantle, and sabotage our nation's public schools and to privatize our education system," Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said in a statement. " That is absolutely unacceptable."

"We can no longer tolerate billionaires and multinational corporations receiving massive tax breaks and subsidies while children in America are forced to go to understaffed, underresourced, and underfunded public schools," Sanders continued. "On this 70th anniversary year of Brown v. Board of Education, let us recommit to creating an education system that works for all of our people, not just the wealthy few."

The new report, authored by the Senate HELP Committee's majority staff, comes days after Sanders presided over a hearing at which a pair of public school teachers decried the low educator pay and lack of resources plaguing schools across the U.S. and threatening the foundations of the country's public education system.

The committee's report shows that while most states have chronically underfunded their public schools, spending on voucher programs that subsidize private schools with taxpayer dollars has surged across the country. Between 2008 and 2019, according to a recent analysis cited in the report, Florida ramped up spending on voucher programs by 313% while "decreasing per-pupil funding of public schooling by 12%."

"The expansion of private school voucher programs forces very real tradeoffs. Money spent on private school vouchers could instead be used to hire teachers, raise wages, hire school counselors, and invest in high-quality academics for students," reads the new report, which estimates that "Arizona could hire 15,730 more public K-12 teachers with the money it is instead spending on private school vouchers."

The report calls on Congress to help reverse the trend of billionaire-backed school privatization by investing more in public education—including early childhood education and community schools—and by passing Sanders' legislation to set the pay floor for U.S. public school teachers at $60,000 a year.

The report also recommends passage of the College for All Act, a Sanders-led bill that would make public colleges and universities tuition-free for students from households making less than $250,000 a year.

"As the richest country in history, the United States should have the best education system in the world," Sanders' report reads. "Our public education system is not perfect—it is underfunded and racially and socioeconomically segregated. Our educators are not respected or paid nearly what they deserve."

"Massive tax breaks to the wealthiest people and largest corporations are being prioritized over opportunities to progressively raise revenue to support social services and public education," the report continues. "Instead of siphoning money and increasing tax breaks to subsidize private education, we have a responsibility to ensure all students have access to quality K-12 education. This requires adequate and equitable funding and addressing structural challenges in our public schools."

[ahoyrcmanoff]

por la universidad pública, gratuita y federal.

por aquellos que se formaron en universidades públicas, por los que desean hacerlo y están esperando al momento perfecto, por aquellos que estudian a la edad que pueden, con las pausas necesarias, por aquellos que eligieron apostar por su futuro, por aquellos que prueban distintas carreras hasta llegar a la que más les gusta, por cada estudiante que apostó por la pública para formar un pensamiento crítico y propio. hoy y siempre, en apoyo a las universidades públicas. estudiar es un derecho, y siempre lo voy a defender. la universidad pública es un patrimonio de la sociedad. nuestro futuro importa, nuestra cultura importa, aerolíneas importa, los trenes y bondis argentinos a precios accesibles importan. hoy se hizo historia, no pararemos hasta que la educación, la cultura, la salud, la ciencia y el arte se mantengan públicos y de fácil acceso a todos. cuidemos nuestra cultura y nuestras universidades.

javier milei sos un culo roto, renunciá. restituyan los fondos correspondientes a nuestras universidades.