BREAKING: Arizona Senate just passed a bill to fund students instead of systems.
This will be the most expansive school choice initiative in the nation.
All families will be able to take their children's education dollars to the education providers of their choosing.
BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court just ruled in a 6-3 decision that preventing school choice families from taking their children's taxpayer-funded education dollars to religious private schools violated the Free Exercise Clause of the 1st Amendment.
NEW: Arizona Governor Doug Ducey just announced that eligible families will be able to take their children's education dollars elsewhere if their public school closes.
BREAKING: ALL Arizona families can now begin applying to take their children's taxpayer-funded education dollars to the education providers of their choosing.
BREAKING: Arizona Governor Doug Ducey just announced a program allowing families to take their children's education dollars elsewhere if their public schools close, mandate masks, or subject children to other COVID-19 constraints.
BREAKING: Arkansas legislators just introduced a bill to fund students instead of systems if their family disagrees with their public school's masking rules.
Holy shit. I have Warren on video lying about where she sent her kids to school.
Sarah Carpenter: "I read that your children went to private schools"
Warren: "No my children went to public schools"
BREAKING: Florida House just passed a bill to fund students instead of systems.
The vote was 83 to 27.
All families would be able to take their children's education dollars to the education providers of their choosing.
This is the way.
BREAKING: Florida Department of Education sent the Broward County Public School superintendent’s office and school board a letter informing them their paychecks may be withheld if they don't withdraw their school mask mandate by Friday.
BREAKING: Arizona Governor Doug Ducey just signed a bill to fund students instead of systems.
This win is the biggest school choice victory in U.S. history.
All families will be able to take their children's education dollars to the education providers of their choosing.
BREAKING: West Virginia Supreme Court just overturned a circuit court judge's decision to block the state’s new school choice program. The injunction is now lifted. Families won.
BREAKING: Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt submitted a formal request for what would be the first-ever financial audit of the state's department of education.
BREAKING: Wisconsin Association of School Boards voted to withdraw their "participation in the National School Boards Association's programs and activities."
I saw Cory Booker on a flight a few months ago and thanked him for his past support of school choice.
He talked about how charter schools have helped kids in his state of New Jersey.
Today he voted against charter schools with all of his Democrat colleagues in the Senate.
We spend $15,424 per child per year in public schools
Imagine if that money went directly to families
A teacher could set up a microschool with just 10 students and pull in $154,240 a year.
Stop calling them "public" schools
They aren't open to the public
They aren't accountable to the public
They are run by government
They are regulated by government
They are funded by government
They are compelled by government
They are government schools.
NEW: The Pennsylvania School Boards Association voted to withdraw from the National School Boards Association because of their recent letter suggesting that some parents should be considered "domestic terrorists."
BREAKING: A Tennessee legislator introduced a bill to allow families to take their children's education dollars elsewhere if their public school closes or mandates masks.
BREAKING: A Wisconsin legislator just introduced a bill to allow families to take their children's education dollars elsewhere if they disagree with their public school’s COVID-19 policies.
BREAKING: North Dakota House just passed a bill to fund students instead of systems.
The vote was 51 to 41.
It already passed the Senate 27 to 19.
It now goes to Governor Doug Burgum's desk.
This bill will create North Dakota's first school choice program.
It's happening.
17 state school boards associations have now distanced themselves from the National School Boards Association:
Arkansas
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Wyoming
BREAKING: 35 Idaho legislators signed a letter requesting the Idaho School Boards Association formally withdraw from the National School Boards Association.
SCOOP: A Texas public school principal notified "all employees [that they] will be expected [by the superintendent] to vote for this Bond" to increase school funding by $992 million and that "Central Office will be monitoring"
I've obtained whistleblower documents 👇🧵
BREAKING: Arizona House just passed a bill to fund students instead of systems.
This would be the most expansive education savings account program in the nation.
All families would be able to take their children's education dollars to the education providers of their choosing.
NEW: Florida Board of Education will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow morning to discuss allowing families to take their children's education dollars elsewhere if their public school's masking rules "pose a health or educational danger to their child."
BREAKING: Iowa House just passed the governor’s bill to fund students instead of systems.
The vote was 54 to 45.
This is the way.
Iowa will now fund students, not systems.
Winsome Sears: "The money in education follows the brick building, it doesn’t follow the child
I don’t care about the brick building. I care about the human life. We don’t get do-overs for our children."
Nebraska Senator Justin Wayne (D) tells his colleagues he'll vote against the school choice bill if they agree to send their own kids to public schools.
NEW: U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that California unconstitutionally violated families' rights by forcing private schools to close in 2020.
New CDC Study: "the portion of 5-11-year-olds who are classified as overweight or obese is now 45.7 percent, up from 36.2 percent before the pandemic."