Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are all of the VOUCHER activists that Youngkin has selected for his team:

Lindsey Burke - wants to defund public schools with a voucher plan similar to WV
https://www.heritage.org/staff/lindsey-burke
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/virginia-election-outcome-was-about-education-here-are-4-actions-youngkin

Kay James - mega conservative/religious and also wants school choice
https://www.heritage.org/staff/kay-c-james
https://www.heritage.org/press/gov-elect-youngkin-appoints-heritage-foundations-kay-james-co-chairman-transition

And Nate Bailey was DeVos’ freakin’ chief of staff.
https://conferences.shrm.org/presenter/nate-bailey


You do know how that has played out in other states, right?

All of the wealthy parents will use vouchers to subsidize their private education. It will do little to support lower-income students. So the rich kids will be off to privates/religious schools while the poor kids are left behind in schools with significantly less funding. It will be a death spiral for public schools.

That is bad news for public schools. Good news for private schools.

I’m a Democrat and I agree that we could see the beginning of a public school death spiral, but it didn’t start with Youngkin. It started when most of the schools in this state and around here stayed closed for a year, and never addressed the closures in SB meetings, didn’t talk about learning loss, cried to the Washington Post about how teachers were going to die … it made people really mad. All you need is to pick off 5-10% of voters and get them to go to the other side and you get a totally different result. This started with the people on the local SB’s in Northern VA. We faced/are facing right now an educational crisis in this area and in a lot of the US as a whole and the SB dithered about with renaming schools and doing God knows what else for a year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are all of the VOUCHER activists that Youngkin has selected for his team:

Lindsey Burke - wants to defund public schools with a voucher plan similar to WV
https://www.heritage.org/staff/lindsey-burke
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/virginia-election-outcome-was-about-education-here-are-4-actions-youngkin

Kay James - mega conservative/religious and also wants school choice
https://www.heritage.org/staff/kay-c-james
https://www.heritage.org/press/gov-elect-youngkin-appoints-heritage-foundations-kay-james-co-chairman-transition

And Nate Bailey was DeVos’ freakin’ chief of staff.
https://conferences.shrm.org/presenter/nate-bailey


You do know how that has played out in other states, right?

All of the wealthy parents will use vouchers to subsidize their private education. It will do little to support lower-income students. So the rich kids will be off to privates/religious schools while the poor kids are left behind in schools with significantly less funding. It will be a death spiral for public schools.

That is bad news for public schools. Good news for private schools.

Again: a $500 voucher per student is going to pay for private school? On what planet? That money comes from federal relief money (surplus) and *should* be going right back into taxpayers' pockets. Good for him. Maybe stop spreading disinformation and actually educate yourself on his plans?

Schools

Youngkin’s plan for the federal relief money includes $1.2 billion to fund school choice initiatives. It also includes extra resources for historically Black colleges and universities and local funding for infrastructure and teacher shortages.

Youngkin wants lawmakers to offer $500 vouchers to Virginia parents to pay for “recovery from the learning loss and mental health issues created by our failed public schools,” the plan reads.

He also wants the state to invest in a pilot program that would launch 20 schools in the state run through public-private partnerships. The plan includes few details on what the schools would look like, but Youngkin has said he supports the charter school model prominent in other states, where children can leave their neighborhood schools to attend ones that are publicly funded but privately run.

https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/youngkin-proposes-1-5-billion-in-tax-relief-from-surplus-school-choice-plan-from-rescue/article_931101d1-f5da-5b1e-9d52-f9a05c820445.html

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sending a special letter to Santa Claus.

Dear Santa,

All I want for Christmas and the coming year is moderation and common sense in the school system. Keep people with extreme and dangerous ideas away from our children.

Santa granted your wish when Youngkin won.

Finally, Virginia can move back to center from the hard left pull of the past few years.

Thank you Santa.

THIS ^^^

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sending a special letter to Santa Claus.

Dear Santa,

All I want for Christmas and the coming year is moderation and common sense in the school system. Keep people with extreme and dangerous ideas away from our children.

Santa granted your wish when Youngkin won.

Finally, Virginia can move back to center from the hard left pull of the past few years.

Thank you Santa.

Anonymous wrote:I’m sending a special letter to Santa Claus.

Dear Santa,

All I want for Christmas and the coming year is moderation and common sense in the school system. Keep people with extreme and dangerous ideas away from our children.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sending a special letter to Santa Claus.

Dear Santa,

All I want for Christmas and the coming year is moderation and common sense in the school system. Keep people with extreme and dangerous ideas away from our children.

Is this what you consider "moderation and common sense"?

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/BTFRCZ6CA62E/$file/Final%20Anti-Racism%20Anti-Bias%20Curriculum%20Work%20Session%20Sept%2014%202020.pdf

Anonymous wrote:I’m sending a special letter to Santa Claus.

Dear Santa,

All I want for Christmas and the coming year is moderation and common sense in the school system. Keep people with extreme and dangerous ideas away from our children.

Anonymous wrote:Unlike Terry, he doesn’t seem interested in micromanaging local school boards.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are all of the VOUCHER activists that Youngkin has selected for his team:

Lindsey Burke - wants to defund public schools with a voucher plan similar to WV
https://www.heritage.org/staff/lindsey-burke
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/virginia-election-outcome-was-about-education-here-are-4-actions-youngkin

Kay James - mega conservative/religious and also wants school choice
https://www.heritage.org/staff/kay-c-james
https://www.heritage.org/press/gov-elect-youngkin-appoints-heritage-foundations-kay-james-co-chairman-transition

And Nate Bailey was DeVos’ freakin’ chief of staff.
https://conferences.shrm.org/presenter/nate-bailey


You do know how that has played out in other states, right?

All of the wealthy parents will use vouchers to subsidize their private education. It will do little to support lower-income students. So the rich kids will be off to privates/religious schools while the poor kids are left behind in schools with significantly less funding. It will be a death spiral for public schools.

That is bad news for public schools. Good news for private schools.

I’m a Democrat and I agree that we could see the beginning of a public school death spiral, but it didn’t start with Youngkin. It started when most of the schools in this state and around here stayed closed for a year, and never addressed the closures in SB meetings, didn’t talk about learning loss, cried to the Washington Post about how teachers were going to die … it made people really mad. All you need is to pick off 5-10% of voters and get them to go to the other side and you get a totally different result. This started with the people on the local SB’s in Northern VA. We faced/are facing right now an educational crisis in this area and in a lot of the US as a whole and the SB dithered about with renaming schools and doing God knows what else for a year.

There you go. Parents making that leap from "cautious approach to handling global crisis" to "let's flush public schools down the toilet". All because they were "mad". Totally irrational.

Youngkin also can't change the SBs - they are locally elected. Also irrational.

Anonymous wrote:Here are all of the VOUCHER activists that Youngkin has selected for his team:

Lindsey Burke - wants to defund public schools with a voucher plan similar to WV
https://www.heritage.org/staff/lindsey-burke
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/virginia-election-outcome-was-about-education-here-are-4-actions-youngkin

Kay James - mega conservative/religious and also wants school choice
https://www.heritage.org/staff/kay-c-james
https://www.heritage.org/press/gov-elect-youngkin-appoints-heritage-foundations-kay-james-co-chairman-transition

And Nate Bailey was DeVos’ freakin’ chief of staff.
https://conferences.shrm.org/presenter/nate-bailey


You do know how that has played out in other states, right?

All of the wealthy parents will use vouchers to subsidize their private education. It will do little to support lower-income students. So the rich kids will be off to privates/religious schools while the poor kids are left behind in schools with significantly less funding. It will be a death spiral for public schools.

That is bad news for public schools. Good news for private schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Inclusive schools that are welcoming to all students allow all students to learn better.

Sure, that's why the Big 3 have such amazing SN programs and such a high portion of students living in poverty.

Obviously private schools aren’t inclusive. What a weird comment. The topic is public schools that have a mission to serve all kids and build our community. It’s such a shame that public schools are going to suffer under Youngkin.

DP. We know you're crossing your fingers and hoping this comes to be. So disgusting. Youngkin is a breath of fresh air who I think will be great for VA.

No. People who actually care about their public schools and community DO NOT want vouchers. Rs send their kids to private schools so they DGAF if they kill public schools in the process of getting private school subsidized.

Uh, no. I’m an “R” and my kids attend public school - along with many other children of “R” parents. We’re not talking about vouchers here - we’re talking about PUBLIC charter schools. Educate yourself.

You are uninformed. We are talking about vouchers too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are all of the VOUCHER activists that Youngkin has selected for his team:

Lindsey Burke - wants to defund public schools with a voucher plan similar to WV
https://www.heritage.org/staff/lindsey-burke
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/virginia-election-outcome-was-about-education-here-are-4-actions-youngkin

Kay James - mega conservative/religious and also wants school choice
https://www.heritage.org/staff/kay-c-james
https://www.heritage.org/press/gov-elect-youngkin-appoints-heritage-foundations-kay-james-co-chairman-transition

And Nate Bailey was DeVos’ freakin’ chief of staff.
https://conferences.shrm.org/presenter/nate-bailey


You do know how that has played out in other states, right?

All of the wealthy parents will use vouchers to subsidize their private education. It will do little to support lower-income students. So the rich kids will be off to privates/religious schools while the poor kids are left behind in schools with significantly less funding. It will be a death spiral for public schools.

That is bad news for public schools. Good news for private schools.

I’m a Democrat and I agree that we could see the beginning of a public school death spiral, but it didn’t start with Youngkin. It started when most of the schools in this state and around here stayed closed for a year, and never addressed the closures in SB meetings, didn’t talk about learning loss, cried to the Washington Post about how teachers were going to die … it made people really mad. All you need is to pick off 5-10% of voters and get them to go to the other side and you get a totally different result. This started with the people on the local SB’s in Northern VA. We faced/are facing right now an educational crisis in this area and in a lot of the US as a whole and the SB dithered about with renaming schools and doing God knows what else for a year.

Anonymous wrote:Here are all of the VOUCHER activists that Youngkin has selected for his team:

Lindsey Burke - wants to defund public schools with a voucher plan similar to WV
https://www.heritage.org/staff/lindsey-burke
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/virginia-election-outcome-was-about-education-here-are-4-actions-youngkin

Kay James - mega conservative/religious and also wants school choice
https://www.heritage.org/staff/kay-c-james
https://www.heritage.org/press/gov-elect-youngkin-appoints-heritage-foundations-kay-james-co-chairman-transition

And Nate Bailey was DeVos’ freakin’ chief of staff.
https://conferences.shrm.org/presenter/nate-bailey


You do know how that has played out in other states, right?

All of the wealthy parents will use vouchers to subsidize their private education. It will do little to support lower-income students. So the rich kids will be off to privates/religious schools while the poor kids are left behind in schools with significantly less funding. It will be a death spiral for public schools.

That is bad news for public schools. Good news for private schools.