It occurred to me, why not take the same approach to Health Care?
Horrid. More federal overreach and another entitlement.
How about no federal funding at all for State schools?
No, not federal funding. Do away with the fed’s involvement with ALL education. Nuke the DOE!
This should be handled on a state basis.
Americans love freebies.
the correct position would be to get the Feds out of education entirely.
Once tax dollars get involved, there will be no such thing as “private school”. What were once privately-run schools will end up being subject to the same rules and social dysfunction now ruining public schools. When John-Boy dons a skirt, and demands to use the girl’s room at XYZ Christian Academy, they will have to let him. When Muslim’s complain that there is too many crosses, and not enough prayer rugs, the ACLU will be right in the middle of it.
As a (former) homeschooling mom, I’m concerned to have the government’s fingers in this pie. I am all in favor of school choice, but let’s say someone like Obama is Prez, and tells all the schools receiving funding that they must teach/ have field trips to Planned Parenthood; that they have to use certain curriculum; that they have to teach LGBT ‘love and marriage.’ Money coming in gives control to the giver. Just my concern.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
What low-information citizens evidently do not understand about federal funding for INTRAstate schools is the following. The states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend in the name of intrastate schooling. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson and a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices.
On a few articles of more general and necessary use, the suppression in due season will doubtless be right, but the great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added]”—Thomas Jefferson : Sixth Annual Message to Congress
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So until the states appropriately amend the Constitution, intrastate schooling is off limits to the feds.
The main reasons that the feds provide funding for schooling purposes is this imo. Corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification lawmakers are exploiting low-information voters, winning their votes with promises for such funding, such voters not understanding that the feds have no constitutional authority to provide such funding.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
In fact, if Justice Gorsuch turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
Federal funding? Where is the money coming from? Sounds like another entitlement program.
The economy is turning the corner, there is no excuse left to not Home School.
Love your kids?
PROVE IT, HOME SCHOOL them!
I don’t want the fedgov involved in schools. It’s not its mission. It’s not why it exists.
Only the ignorant, liberals and Democrats would oppose that.
How about dismantling the DoE and leaving it to the states....you know, like the founders intended.
they didn’t ask me
Texas House does not want funding for school choice in our state, although the Senate does.
Have been blasting my state rep about this issue. His wife is a former teacher and draws a hefty retirement check from them so he won’t even consider it. Strauss, the House leader, is not in favor of school choice - wants to keep pumping more money into a failing public school. Suspect, particularly in the primary grades, that there are more ESL classes than not and Houston’s public district has at least one Arab Immersion school. Dreamers and illegals can attend state colleges at in-state tuition courtesy of former Governor Rick Perry who is now part of Trump’s cabinet.
Ridiculous ! Why expect federal funding for school choice programs ? Vouchers for school choice would actually SAVE MONEY for local governments compared to public schools. Private K-12 schools spend barely half a much per student as public K-12.
This is a red herring for people to claim they are “supportive” of school choice but are waiting for federal funding — the only reason for federal funding would be to further pad the public school systems and bribe them into releasing students from their evil clutches.