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@joshcowenMSU
Dec 23, 2022 • 10 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
There’s a #schoolvouchers link to the #January6thReport. It centers around attorney Cleta Mitchell who led Trump’s GA pressure efforts after the vote. #BigLie

Mitchell is all over the final report:
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 january6th.house.gov/sites/democrat…
Mitchell is also Board Secretary for the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, a huge #schoolvouchers backer out of Wisconsin that’s given $millions to voucher research and advocacy.

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 archive.jsonline.com/newswatch/2037… ImageImage
The Bradley Foundation is also financially the “extraordinary force” behind #BigLie efforts, per @JaneMayerNYer reporting @NewYorker.

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 newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
As Mayer’s reporting notes, also central to #BigLie organizing and future election mischief are the Heritage Foundation and ALEC—key figures in spreading propped up #schoolvouchers data and voucher legislation at the state level, respectively.

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 heritage.org/education/repo…
That’s not shocking. Heritage is deep into message coordination with DeSantis and others in the GOP on “#woke” moving forward.

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 heritage.org/education/repo…
See also reporting by @anelsona on Bradley, Cleta Mitchell, and ALEC @newrepublic

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 newrepublic.com/article/165984…
Speaking of future election mischief, Cleta Mitchell led poll-watching efforts in places like my own state of MI during #Election2022 coordinating with fmr State Sen Colbeck and others @clarajanehen @jonathanoosting @CraigDMauger

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 nytimes.com/2022/11/07/us/…
There’s also a direct Bradley tie to Tudor Dixon: her campaign chief Kyle Olson’s #Education Action Group was partly funded by Bradley. @Simon_Schuster reported on this over the summer:
#BigLie #migov #mipol 👇

mlive.com/public-interes…

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Point is: remember that #schoolvouchers are not just some alternative #education policy to debate. It’s all part of a larger effort to undermine civic institutions. I wrote on this @DianeRavitch but see also @BisforBerkshire @Edu_Historian @EvieBlad
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 dianeravitch.net/2022/11/15/jos…
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May 2
Right-wing think tankers slam academic voucher experts because our work predicts key policy failures.

As early as 2007, evaluators in Cleveland found 69.5% voucher users were in private school already—a spot-on estimate of rates reported in the following 10 states today 👇

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First up, Arizona, where 70%+ voucher users were in private school already

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azmirror.com/2022/09/01/pri…
And then there’s Arkansas, where 95% of last year’s new voucher users had never been in public school

3/11
arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/…
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Sep 21, 2023
In honor of Betsy DeVos’s appearance with Vivek Ramaswamy on Fox’s Big Money Playbook show today to talk about #education,

Here’s a sampling of headlines about her failed #schoolvouchers scheme while she was ED secretary:

Here’s the time she had to admit the evidence:
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And then there’s the time DeVos’s model program in Indiana released it’s #schoolvouchers results

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And yes, those atrocious #schoolvouchers results do linger for years, and not just 👆 in Indiana:

Here’s Louisiana, where initial impacts were about 2x as bad as COVID-19’s impact on academics:

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Mar 24, 2023
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So many different Right-$ groups inflating evidence for #schoolvouchers it’s impossible to ✋🛑 all of them. #txlege #gapol #neleg #INed #ksleg

But here’s the general pattern, using this EdChoice table as an example (there are many more):
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First is the absence of abysmal negative OH, and IN results by teams led by Figlio and Berends, respectively.

Those studies use panel data and methods and find terrible statewide at-scale voucher effects—hugely relevant to legislation today.
2/
 chalkbeat.org/2018/8/9/21107…
But #schoolvouchers advocates drop them from tables like the 👆 because they’re not lottery-based studies. It’s true that lotteries are gold standard evaluation tool—but have well-known limitations re: scale and generalizability—key issues today.

Any case, you don’t drop them
3/
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Jan 4, 2023
When it comes to oversight and transparency, #miched #education #charterschools are the worst in the country.

It’s not just that they’re almost all for-profit. They are but #OhioEd has for-profit charters for example and much greater 🔎.
#mileg #mipol #migov @Network4pubEd
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For-profit #charterschools run on small profit margins for students—as far as we can tell. So it gives charters like those in MI every incentive to cut corners. That’s one problem. #mipol #migov #mileg

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But here’s something I’m guessing MI charters really don’t want #mileg members or #miched journalists looking into: property holdings.

The real profit is in various property bought and maintained with tax support. @NPEaction

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Dec 19, 2022
A🧵 on why the #KYed ruling last week against #schoolvouchers tax credit scheme matters @NPEaction @Network4pubEd @PV4PS @BadassTeachersA @edvoters

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First: a win’s a win. It’s good to see #schoolvouchers stopped anywhere. The push to privatize is so relentless, so well-funded by such a narrow swath of backers, it can feel like swinging in the dark against it.

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But more concretely: the KY Court found that #schoolvouchers tax credit shell game was a budget commitment even though it’s not a direct appropriation. Reducing revenue by $10 is the same as spending $10.

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Dec 17, 2022
The push for #education privatization #schoolvouchers is now a cruel update to longer efforts to separate single out and separate children. @carolburris @Network4pubEd @NPEaction

Heritage announced its #EducationFreedom strategy early in 2022:
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 heritage.org/education/repo…
And Heritage has been branching out on this tactic by adopting itself as a pseudo sex-science shop

The goal here is to underscore differences as “choice” and “values” #lgbtqia #LGBTQ
2/
 heritage.org/gender/event/t…
With longstanding antipathy to #DEI baked into an #EducationFreedom agenda that in their telling is good for kids of color

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 heritage.org/educationrepor…
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