#voucher programs

In submitting her updated budget proposal in March, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs lamented the rising costs of the state’s school vouchers program that directs public dollars to pay private school tuition. Characterizing vouchers as an “entitlement program,” Hobbs said the state could spend more than $1 billion subsidizing private education in the upcoming fiscal year. The Democratic governor said…

New Education Bill in Arkansas Spells Danger for Teachers and Students

Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a new education bill on Wednesday, one that ties important things like a higher minimum salary for teachers to new restrictions on classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity. The Good: The bill imposes a new minimum salary of $50,000 a year for teachers, 39% over what it formerly was. It also mandates at least a $2,000 pay…

American Taxpayers Spend Nearly $1 Billion on Teaching Creationism Each Year

In hundreds of schools across America, teachers are standing in front of classrooms full of children and explaining how the Earth is less than 10,000 years old. They are called private schools, and unlike their public counterparts, they can teach pretty much whatever they want.

Thanks to lawsuits and the Constitution, public schools aren’t allowed to teach creationism or intelligent design (with…

I am tired of seeing the absurdity known as class warfare on the rich.  As if the upper class is infallible and the mere mention of changes to the system that benefits them so highly blasphemous and an attack on the successful.  True class warfare is the continuous use of salaries to employees that do not even represent a livable wage. 

When you have a war, there are people dying on both sides.  The wealthy will not die from an increase in capital gains taxes while those uninsured or seniors having to make up the cost difference in voucher programs actually will.  Contrary to Mitt Romney's recent statement speaking on how people don't just die because of lack of insurance, studies such as those cited in http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/healthcare/2002-05-22-insurance-deaths.htm and http://www.urban.org/publications/411588.html, prove otherwise.

No, there is no war here.  When you have one side being wiped out simply because of who they are or the class they inhabit that is not class warfare; it is class genocide.