Dismantling Education House Bill 610

[Anonymous]

House Bill 610 makes some large changes. Inform yourselves.
This bill will effectively start the school voucher system to be used by children ages 5-17, and starts the defunding process of public schools.
In addition the bill will eliminate the Elementary and Education Act of 1965, which is the nation's educational law and provides equal opportunity in education.
It would repeal ESSA (Every Students Succeeds Act):
ESSA is a big comprehensive program that covers programs for struggling learners, AP classes, ESL classes, classes for minorities such as Native Americans, Rural Education, Education for the Homeless, School Safety (Gun-Free schools), Monitoring and Compliance and Federal Accountability Programs.
The Bill also abolishes the Nutritional Act of 2012 (No Hungry Kids Act) which provides nutritional standards in school breakfast and lunch.
The bill has no wording whatsoever protecting SN kids, no mention of IDEA and FAPE.
Some things ESSA does for Children with Disabilities
-Ensures access to the general education curriculum.
-Ensures access to accommodations on assessments.
-Ensures concepts of Universal Design for Learning
-Includes provisions that require local education agencies to provide evidence-based
interventions in schools with consistently underperforming subgroups.
-Requires states in Title I plans to address how they will improve conditions for learning including reducing incidents of bullying and harassment in schools, overuse of discipline practices and reduce the use of aversive behavioral interventions (such as restraints and seclusion).


If this is not what you support, then engage your Congressmen right away.

[Anonymous]

This will make DeVos's job a lot easier.

[Anonymous]

Is there an income limit on vouchers?

[Anonymous]

So I guess the states control the school bathrooms, and the Fed controls everything else.

[Anonymous]

They ought to call this the Catholic School Subsidy Act of 2017

[Anonymous]

Why do they want to dismantle healthy lunches?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do they want to dismantle healthy lunches?

Because Michelle Obama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do they want to dismantle healthy lunches?

Republicans believe you are only allowed to tell poor people to eat healthy.

[Anonymous]

Handout of federal funds to homeschoolers. Fantastic.

[Anonymous]

Steve King and Trent Franks are morons.

[Anonymous]

All those Mormon polygamist kids being "home schooled" will be delighted. Plus Catholic kids too. Hooray?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If this is not what you support, then engage your Congressmen right away.

Done. Thanks for the heads up, OP. This bill is a nightmare.

[Anonymous]

One of the cosponsor of this bill is Andy Harris from Maryland.

[Anonymous]

I also want to know why they change to the nutritional intakes of kids. Where is this coming from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also want to know why they change to the nutritional intakes of kids. Where is this coming from?

There is a ton of food waste in the lunch program and it might be an attempt to scale back some of the changes that were made.

Truthfully, the school lunches today are really awful and if there are kids who need the lunch but then don't eat it because of taste , I would rather serve them something they will eat.