Jubilation!! Alabama Becomes an Education Freedom State

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Issue #971
03/07/2024
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1) Jubilation!! Alabama Becomes an Education Freedom State
This headline says it all about this landmark school choice victory:

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The House and Senate in Montgomery have now passed the $7,000 education scholarship bill to help parents pay for private schools. The dollars will follow the students. Governor Kay Ivey promises to sign the bill in a matter of days. This will be the 11th state to pass school choice in the last two years – many of them in the South.

On Tuesday CTUP’s Steve Moore and representatives from ALEC traveled to Montgomery, Alabama to educate in the state capital about school choice.

They met with the Lt. Governor and spoke at the GOP’s Senate caucus afternoon meeting on the virtues of school choice for parents. They reminded the Senators that school choice leads to more educational options for parents - while helping improve the public schools by requiring them to compete for students.

CTUP and ALEC Meet with Key Alabama Lawmakers
One disappointment from the Senate debate. Democrats voted as a bloc against the bill – even though it is the families in the lowest income districts that will benefit the most. An outrageous charge was made by some of the legislators that this was an attempt to “re-segregate the schools.” Virtually everywhere in the country where school choice has been put into law, segregation has gone DOWN and racial integration has gone UP.

The Berlin Wall surrounding government schools and restricting students' access to better schools is falling all over red-state America. For now, Democrats are too tied to the teacher unions to push meaningful education freedom options over the goal line.

We’re just getting started. Next up: Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
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2) The Largest Ransom Note in World History
Alas, it’s not all good news on the education front. Get a load of Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates, who threatened in a speech this week to the Chicago Civics Association: give us $50 billion or we will shut down the schools.

She arrogantly admits in her speech that this price tag to keep the schools open is “audacity.”

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Sounds like she thinks she has a friend in City Hall to carry her water. Oh yeah! The new Chicago Mayor, Brandon Johnson, was formerly a lobbyist for the Union.

Just how “audacious” is this request? According to the Illinois Policy Institute, this is more money than is collected each year in income AND sales taxes.

All personal income tax ($23.7B)
All corporate income tax ($5.8B)
All sales tax ($10.4B)
Total: $38 billion

Our friends at the Illinois Policy Institute remind us this is a school system that already spends $29,000 per student. See chart.

What’s craziest of all is that the unions will probably win. And the schools will continue to be godawful.

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3) Under Biden – Pay More for Groceries and Get Less Food
This morning CTUP's 501c4 affiliate Unleash Prosperity Now started running TV ads on Shrinkflation. The White House is trying to blame the shrunk bags of potato chips, the fewer cookies in the box, and the smaller food portions in restaurants on “greedy corporations.” But the ad points out this practice only started when Biden took office and started spending $6 trillion we don't have. Shrinkflation is merely a predictable and infuriating byproduct of Bidenomics.

Let us know what you think of the ad.

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4) San Francisco Voters Turn Away from Progressive Craziness
“For now, at least, San Francisco can no longer be called a progressive city,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

That’s an exaggeration, but the voters did opt for common-sense reforms to a city that has been made unlivable by weird leftist experiments. Here’s the basis for the Chronicle’s take:

Voters approved ballot measures Tuesday to loosen restrictions on the police and screen welfare recipients for drugs, while a measure to boost developers was leading and likely to pass.

Voters also backed a slate of moderates to run the local Democratic County Central Committee, whose endorsements could reshape who is elected in San Francisco for years. Four years ago, progressives won all but two seats on the DCCC.

In addition, The Chronicle also notes that Proposition B, an attempt to increase police staffing but only if coupled with a tax increase, won only 32 percent of the vote.

“Progressives are staring down a deep-pocketed tech community that thinks their policies are destroying the city,” The Chronicle concludes.

Ironically, it was liberal high-tech millionaires and billionaire executives who once provided the dollars SUPPORTING the looney “progressive” anti-police/sanctuary city and high-welfare policies that brought the city to its knees. Now, even THEY are opting for a return to normalcy. Let’s hope that these reforms aren’t arriving too late to save one of America’s iconic cities.

It’s nice to see that even though it took years of decay and destruction, the patience of many tech moguls has finally been exhausted.

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5) Brits Tell Kids NOT to Watch “Racist” Disney Classic Mary Poppins
Now it’s Mary Poppins who has run afoul of the “sensitivity police.” She’s joined British children’s author Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, and mystery writer Agatha Christie.

The classic Disney film "Mary Poppins" has had its age rating raised from U (for Universal, the British equivalent of G) to PG, which means children under the age of 15 should not watch the Julie Andrews/Dick Van Dyke classic without the supervision of an adult.

The reason? The British Board of Film Classification says it is “unsuitable for young children” because it includes two uses of the “discriminatory” word “Hottentots,” a term describing Africans that is used by a character in the film.

The word was created by Dutch settlers near Cape Town and was probably in imitation of the language of the Khoikhoi tribe. Britain’s Daily Mail says that “over time it came to be regarded as a derogatory and offensive term.”

We suspect almost no children — or even adults — are today familiar with the archaic term. The board agrees the term wasn’t offensive in the period in which Mary Poppins is set, but the fact that the word isn’t immediately condemned in the film means children have to be protected from it.

Last year, Stephen Spielberg came out unequivocally against such nonsense when he attacked “sensitivity experts” who try to change classics. The 76-year-old director said “For me, it is sacrosanct. It’s our history, it’s our cultural heritage. I do not believe in censorship in that way.”

He’s right, of course. And for those who don’t want kids to watch Mary Poppins, we say: Go fly a kite!

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