NEW: Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear vetoed a bill to fund students instead of systems last week
The legislature is expected to vote to override the veto today or tomorrow
I just received yearbook photos confirming Governor Beshear attended Capital Day School - a private school.
He also sent his children to private school
I'm glad his family had those opportunities
But why fight against school choice for others?🤔
When confronted about sending his own kids to private schools in 2019:
Reporter: "Is that hypocritical that your children go to private school?"
Governor Beshear: "I'm a public school graduate."
Governor Beshear: "I went to Kentucky's public schools"
Governor Beshear: "I am a proud product of public education. A proud graduate of Kentucky's public schools. My commitment to public education runs deep." lex18.com/news/covering-…
"When pressed on this, Beshear often identifies himself as a proud product of Kentucky public schools. But as Corey DeAngelis, who has written for us on school choice, explains, this is not entirely true" nationalreview.com/corner/kentuck…
New Study: School reopenings are linked to union influence and political partisanship but not COVID-19 hospitalization rates.
"We find that pandemic severity, as measured by the county COVID-19 hospitalization rate, had no relationship with the probability of in-person reopening." bradmarianno.faculty.unlv.edu/working-papers/
"These findings match a growing body of literature that suggests local school reopening decisions are more about interest group influence and politics instead of pandemic spread (DeAngelis, & Makridis, 2020; Grossman et al., 2020; Hartney & Finger, 2020)"