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🔥 BREAKING: Because Trump and his Cabinet of Horrors will always find another way to pocket your tax-dollars: Trump proposes increasing funding for the charter grant program by 13.6 percent, from $440 to $500 million
#TrumpSlushFund
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#TrumpSlushFund
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and education secretary Betsy DeVos praised this increase as a step forward for “education freedom.” But the report finds that increasing federal funds for this program would mostly continue to perpetuate academic fraud.
#DestabilizePrivatizeAndCapitalize
#DestabilizePrivatizeAndCapitalize
🔥 Charter schools scammed the US Dept of Education’s Charter Schools Program (CSP) for up to $1 Billion in wasted grants that went to charters that never opened or opened only briefly before being shut down for mismanagement, poor performance, lack of enrollment, or fraud.
There is only one way to deal with this blatant grift program for the charter school industry.
➡️ First, Congress must reject President Trump’s budget proposal for increasing funding for the charter school grant program.
➡️ Then Congress must end funding for new charter grants
➡️ First, Congress must reject President Trump’s budget proposal for increasing funding for the charter school grant program.
➡️ Then Congress must end funding for new charter grants
coming from this program and demand thorough audits of previous grant awards and steps to ensure grant awards still under term are being responsibly carried out and that misspent money is returned.
#PayToPlay
#PayToPlay
