Trump guts work-study, after school programs, mental health, etc. to fund charters/vouchers

[Tanuki]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/education/trumps-first-full-education-budget-deep-cuts-to-public-school-programs-in-pursuit-of-school-choice/2017/05/17/2a25a2cc-3a41-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html

"Funding for college work-study programs would be cut in half, public-service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.

The administration would channel part of the savings into its top priority: school choice. It seeks to spend about $400 million to expand charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools, and another $1 billion to push public schools to adopt choice-friendly policies.

President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have repeatedly said they want to shrink the federal role in education and give parents more opportunity to choose their children’s schools."......(more)

[yardwork]

1. They're taking our money and giving it to the richest people in the world.

[dalton99a]

2. Corporate welfare at its finest.

[SirBrockington]

3. I'm sure it doesn't affect Susan Sarandon

[Tanuki]

4. Ain't that the truth! She didn't learn much after her and others' campaign against Al Gore gave us

GWBush and the Iraq war. She had the gall to lay the blame for the latter on HRC. I wonder who she'll blame for the present hell that she helped unleash on us?

[L. Coyote]

5. kick for visibility