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ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

WATCH: More than 80% of U.S. children attend public schools.

Some of the Education Department’s ultraconservative advisers, led by Secretary Linda McMahon, want to change that.

Here’s an inside look at their dismantling of public education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NYq_N6fO-w

#Documentary #Film #Journalism #Video #Education #Family #Children #Parenting #School

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Nicole Parsons
Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@ProPublica

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Billionaires continue efforts to create an illiterate peasantry & convert education into a privatized grift of lifetime indebtedness, starting in kindergarten.

Enriching their donors is all Republicans do in office."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/05/jeff-yass-school-choice-trump/

https://jacobin.com/2025/10/private-equity-schools-trump-vouchers

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/texas-private-school-vouchers-josh-cowen-research.html

https://www.texasaft.org/research/reports/why-are-billionaires-still-trying-to-buy-our-schools/

https://www.epi.org/blog/trump-is-putting-crucial-school-funding-at-risk-by-dismantling-the-department-of-education/

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-department-education/

https://www.barrons.com/articles/education-stocks-department-trump-musk-46fd6452

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/09/jeff-yass-millions-to-influence-schools-courts-and-markets.html

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Trump Sets His Sights on “Eliminating” Public Education

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‘Education’s Version of Predatory Lending’

School vouchers don’t help kids. Their real purpose is more sinister, says a former supporter.

Private Equity Is Set to Profit From New School Vouchers

The school voucher provision in Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is expected to transfer billions of dollars to private schools and companies that contract with public school districts. That includes companies owned by private equity firms.
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Jimmy
Jimmy
@jhavok@mstdn.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@ProPublica School vouchers have been a plot to destroy public education from the beginning. Same for "school choice."

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Jonathan Hendry
Jonathan Hendry
@jonhendry@iosdev.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@ProPublica

Seems like they aren't "ultraconservative" they're "radical".

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