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Mar 29 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🧵How much money have companies paid to lobbyists to advocate for charter schools in KY?
@kyhousedems #kyga22 #teacherlegislator

1/8
💲223,000.00
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Jan. 2012 - Feb. 2019
Charter school trade association.

2/8
apps.klec.ky.gov/EmployerExpens…
💲254,672.03
National Heritage Academies
Jan. 2017 - present
For-profit charter management company based in MI.

3/8
apps.klec.ky.gov/EmployerExpens…
💲206,387.56
Stride, Inc.
Sept. 2016 - present
For-profit charter management company based in VA.

4/8
apps.klec.ky.gov/EmployerExpens…
💲5,450.00
Butler Foundation
Feb. 2022 - present
Education is listed as nature of business.

5/8
apps.klec.ky.gov/EmployerExpens…
💲2,947.00
National Association of Charter School Authorizers
March 2016 - March 2017
Independent voice for charter school policy based in Chicago, IL.

6/8
apps.klec.ky.gov/EmployerExpens…
💲81,209.00
Bluegrass Institute
Sept. 2017 - present
Libertarian think take based in Bowling Green, KY.
Advocates for multiple issues.

7/8
apps.klec.ky.gov/EmployerExpens…
💲773,665.59 has been spent for lobbyists to convince legislators to pass legislation for charter schools.

Now try and tell me that this endeavor is to improve public education for all students in KY.

I'm not buying it.

8/8

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Mar 29
🧵Charter schools control access, shape enrollment, and effectively pick their students. Rep. McCoy stated that, "This is a public school that must take all comers." That is not what actually happens.
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@kyhousedems #kyga22 #teacherlegislator

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Mar 28
🧵HB9, the charter school bill, passed out of Senate Ed Com today. Rep. McCoy made several statements that don't align with my reading of the bill or my personal conversations.
@kyhousedems #KYGA22
#teacherlegislator

1/14
1⃣ Rep. McCoy stated that, "You can't require local funds to move from one entity to another." However, HB9 does just that.

2/14
2⃣ Rep. McCoy stated that it is "only the SEEK portion [of the funding] that is going [to the charter school]."

However, the bill states that state budget and KDE add-on funding must be appropriated to the charter school. These payments are in addition to SEEK funding.

3/14
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Mar 3
Yesterday a charter school bill was filed in KY. It is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad bill.
@kyhousedems #kyga22 #teacherlegislator
@NPEaction @DianeRavitch

1/17
apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22rs/hb… Image
We are one of the few states that doesn't have charter schools. In 2017, we passed a bill to allow charters, but it did not include a funding mechanism. There was not much interest in charters without money. So today we don't have any. Zero.

2/17
We also don't have any voucher tax credit schemes. Parts of last session's bill were ruled unconstitutional and other issues are not yet resolved. They haven't given up, but at this point KY does not appropriate any tax dollars to private or parochial schools.

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