| Controversial School Voucher Bill Passed in Education Committee, Headed for Pennsylvania Senate Vote:
Controversial School Voucher Bill Passed in Education Committee, Headed for Pennsylvania Senate Vote
The Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee passed a school voucher bill that could go to the state Senate for a vote as early as today. Beginning in April of this year, I wrote a series of articles about the use of school vouchers as a strategy for dismantling public education, and the role of the Betsy DeVos-led organization American Federation for Children in this well-funded political effort. Talk2action co-founder Bruce Wilson and I produced a video documenting the teaching of creationism and attacks on Catholicism in the textbook series used by private schools already receiving corporate tax credit funding (EITC) in Pennsylvania. If the controversial SB-1 passes, the public funding to private and parochial schools, including those in the video, will be dramatically increased. SB-1 would initiate a voucher program and expand EITC from $75 million to $125 million over the next three years. |
Links to previous articles on the money and organizations behind school vouchers and corporate tax credit programs and the video follow.
Betsy DeVos and AFC Implement Think Tank strategy to Use Vouchers to Dismantle Public Schools
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/9/235354/4825
Details of the American Federation for
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