The tax cut part of the budget has been released. I don’t see the promised exemption for Social Security benefits.
But this did jump out at me:
In turn, the framework would pare away at other tax breaks. For example, the bill would hike endowment taxes for colleges and universities.
The endowment tax would increase from 1.4% to 7% for universities with endowments ranging from $750,000 to $1.25 million per student; up to 14% for schools with endowments ranging from $1.25 million to $2 million per student; and up to 21% for endowments higher than $2 million per student.
Religious schools would be exempt from those taxes.
Keep escalating the cost of a college education, and fewer and fewer will gain an education.
This sort of ties in with the thread about the government cutting funding for R&D. Not having any R&D dovetails with not having much in the way of highly educated people.
Remember the thing Dr Tyson said about deeply religious people? Something along the lines of “if you are so satisfied that religion answers all questions, you are useless in the lab”.
Ohio is reporting success with their voucher program that allows parents to choose school including private and religious schools. Money comes from public taxes.
Schools chosen have more success. More students graduating. More going to college.
A bit of religious training causes no harm. Ability to accept or reject applicants may be major advantage. They can select students who want to learn.
Success is subjective. Vouchers have overwhelmingly gone to students already enrolled in private schools - as shown in the two linked charts below:
The cost of the voucher program has ballooned, resulting in public school budgets being slashed.
"Public schools facing cuts
Opponents of the EdChoice Expansion say it leaves less money available for public schools, which the state has a constitutional obligation to fund. DeWine’s proposed budget includes a decrease of over $100 million for public schools over two years.
Akron Public Schools Treasurer and CFO Steve Thompson has been making regular presentations to his school board about the impact vouchers will have on the district’s budget. The district is taking a $28 million hit just from vouchers going to students who never once set foot in an Akron public school."
I guess I’m an old fashioned kind of guy. I believe quality education is something ALL students deserve. Voucher programs don’t care about all students, they’re just another symptom of our screw or get screwed society.
Our failed education system will take decades to fix…maybe longer given current shenanigans. We’re already experiencing serious macro impacts, when are we going to learn?
Ayup. As the privates skim the students most likely to succeed, the public schools show worse results, so the drumbeat starts to close the public schools entirely.
Show me an atheist, or a Muslim, admitted to a Catholic or Christian Reformed school? Or will people who do not conform be denied a chance at an education?
While privates can refuse to admit anyone they wish, public schools are required to admit everyone. I posted recently, about a student at Cass Tech, a Detroit public high school, who had done two stints in jail for assault. A private would probably have expelled him, and he would land back in the public school system. He was accepted back at Cass Tech, each time he was released from jail. The only thing the media was concerned about was how the multiple assault convictions may impact his college football career.
Nine years later, seems he learned nothing.
But public schools are required to accept people like him.
There are also reports of some students not being able to attend private schools for reasons outside of being able to afford tuition. What should we do with these students?
Some parents who care don’t have a choice because their kid isn’t accepted into the private schools, or they can’t get their kid to a private school that is further away from their home.
A Muslim, LGTBQ, and atheist student walk into a Christian nationalist school…
Just kidding, they can’t go to school there.
We are the wealthiest country in the history of civilization. Yet somehow we’ve been duped into believing that that we can’t afford to provide all our citizens with quality education, quality healthcare, and a decent living wage. It’s weird that so many are ok with this.
for the first time, homeschooled children are scoring higher on average on college entrance exams than public school children. Those that cannot afford to live in areas with better public schools are receiving a subpar education. It will be a painful transition but competition needs to play a role in either forcing public schools to improve or collapse. But then again, the public school system’s primary focus is not education but teacher’s unions and continued administrative bloat. Until that is fixed, it’s doomed and the voucher system provides an out for some and hastens the collapse of schools that do not deserve to remain open.
At the lunch counter the other day, “We have to be careful about taxing the billionaires”. Me, “That has to be the dumbest thing ever in American thinking that billionaires will go broke if taxed”.
Thunder Dome! - where we pit kids against teachers against parents against administration against…
Maybe what really needs to play a role is serious governance, fiscal responsibility, and taxation of the wealthy… so we’re not all fighting under the - Thunder Dome!!!
Yep. Public schools must accept everyone. That reduces quality.
When I was in elementary school in the 1960’s, they split students into 3 or 4 different classes in each grade based on ability. That lasted 2 or 3 years. Then instead of labeling the classes A-B-C-D, they charged the names to Red_Blue_Green_Orange, with the same smart kids in the Red Class and the same dumb kids in Orange. Parents still complained if Junior was in the Dumb Class. And a few of the “smart” kids asked be removed from the A class because it was “nerdy”, and hurting them socially. {{ LOL }}
By 8th grade they just randomly assigned the kids to each of the 4 classes. The smart kids got bored, and the dumb ones couldn’t keep up.
I went to a Catholic school. They seperated us by who was going to get their knuckles wacked by the nuns and who wasn’t. I was in the knuckle wacking wing of the school. Surprising how hard a 5’4" nun that weighted 300 pounds could hit.