When we let vouchers drain our schools, it hurts us all.
October 8, 2024
Great, seems we’re the shining example for the education policies being promoted by Project 2025, but we’re getting ahead of ourselves here.
Now, we don’t buy into conspiracies, but we do recognize when like-minded people get together with an agenda.
Exhibit A is the Center for Christian Virtue’s recent “Essential Summit.”
The summit featured Kevin Roberts, the leader of Project 2025, and Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman, the architect behind the explosive, unaccountable $1 billion boondoggle private school voucher program.
Project 2025 was written by the Heritage Foundation as a blueprint for the first 180 days of a like-minded president. Former President Donald Trump has publicly disavowed Project 2025.
Read about it here.
The Center for Christian Virtue, you may recall, made a $5 million investment in a building overlooking the Statehouse in Columbus, and has been pushing for the expansion of vouchers.
Part of the Center’s “Ohio Ministry Network,” is the Ohio Christian Education Network, which is sustained through membership dues – $5 per pupil up to $3,000 per school – from Christian schools.
We bring this up because summits ain’t cheap and this was a doozy.
In August, the Ohio Capital Journal’s Megan Henry wrote how Project 2025’s education policies mirror the legislation introduced and passed in Ohio and universal private school vouchers.
Read Megan’s story here.
Again, we don’t believe in conspiracies, but these people do think alike.
Like they think the U.S. Dept. of Education should be abolished, and the Office of Head Start eliminated, and universal vouchers implemented across the land.
Christina Collins is a former member of the formerly funded and quasi-independent State Board of Education.
She is now the Executive Director for Honesty for Ohio Education, and Collins told the Capital Journal that it’s as though the Ohio General Assembly has been bringing many of the policies outlined in Project 2025 to the Buckeye State already.
“It’s almost like Ohio knew what Project 2025 was going to go for, and that our legislature was like, let’s just get ahead of it. Let’s just start implementing,” Collins said.
“What’s embedded in Project 2025 with these Christian Nationalism values is one form of educating children,” Collins said. “It’s restrictive. It prevents the freedom of knowledge. It prevents the freedom of learning. It is not inclusive, and it is not an honest education.”
It’s something else alright, including being bought, paid and promoted with our public tax dollars.
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