by Elise Ehrhard
This legislation could be the most exciting and game-changing this year.
After
2020, Americans are coming to terms with the fact that the United
States is splitting into two different countries culturally and
politically. The red-blue divide is a divide between free states and
counties and increasingly repressive and authoritarian blue states and
counties.
As the conservative professor Eddie Zipperer quipped on Twitter:
1980s Moms: "You should be thankful you have freedom. People in Russian and China don't have that."
2021 Moms: "You should be thankful you have freedom. People in Michigan and California don't have that."
The
freedom divide is particularly clear in the area of
education. Republican states and counties have been more likely to open
up their schools with safety measures, while Democratic regions, under
the thumb of corrupt teachers' unions, have kept brick-and-mortar
schools closed. Even more stunningly, the blue states, cities, and
counties keeping students from schools are also the states most likely
to block financial access to any educational alternatives. It is the
free states in 2021 that are leading the way in moving forward with
legislation to increase educational freedom for students. As the
unflappable Corey DeAngelis of the Reason Foundation constantly repeats,
states "should fund students, not systems."
Individual
Republican state legislators across the nation from Oregon to Maryland
have introduced bills to expand school choice and educational options,
but it is in states with majority-Republican assemblies that such bills
have the best chance of passage. Educational freedom enjoys bipartisan
support among the electorate, but Democrat legislators dare not touch it
because they are politically and financially beholden to the corrupt
teachers' unions who block any and all attempts at giving parents
options.
One
state in particular, West Virginia, may pass the most exciting and
game-changing legislation this year. West Virginia's House chamber
recently approved a bill that creates education savings accounts for which 90% of students in the state
are eligible. The bill now moves on to the state's Senate. This is
revolutionary because, up until now, ESA programs introduced in other
states have tightly restricted eligibility. West Virginia would enable
nearly all its state's school-aged children to access
accounts. Students could use the money toward the educational options
and resources of the families' choice, whether private, online, or home
school–related. The money could also be used toward therapies for
learning challenges and disabilities. If parents are happy with their
local public school, their child's money would still go to that
school. Public schools would lose nothing from this as a result, as
they would still receive the same per pupil funding from students who
choose to remain in their school.
Elise Ehrhard
Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/03/west_virginia_wants_to_change_the_game_on_education.html
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