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Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona has signed into law sweeping changes in how state money can be used to educate students, making it easier for parents to enroll their children in private schooling at public expense.
The bill, which the State Legislature passed Thursday, makes all 1.1 million public school students in Arizona eligible for money from a program that until now was available only to some students, including those with disabilities and those in underperforming schools.
Under the law, parents who withdraw their children from public school can use their child’s share of state education funding to pay for private school tuition, home-schooling costs, tutoring and online education, as well as for therapies for the disabled.
New Mexico became the seventh state in the US Friday to place a ban on gay conversion therapy for minors, officially prohibiting the controversial practice, AP reports.
Senate Bill 121, signed by Republican governor Susana Martinez, prohibits licensed doctors, nurses, psychologists, and other health practitioners from administering conversion therapy to those under 18. According to USA Today, the law would not apply to ministers or people who don't have a medical license.
Gay conversion therapy covers a wide range of semi-psychoanalytic methods used to try to convince a person that they can rid themselves of homosexuality, often with a religious bent. A typical session might involve violent role-playing, shock therapy, or physical abuse, according to the New York Times and Huffington Post.
"This is an incredible victory for LGBTQ youth in New Mexico," Sarah Warbelow, the Human Rights Campaign's legal director, told LGBT Weekly. "No child should be subjected to this dangerous practice that amounts to nothing more than child abuse."
The American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and a host of other medical organizations have explicitly denounced gay conversion therapy. Aside from the fact that it treats homosexuality as if it were a "disease" that requires a "cure," conversion therapy is dangerous. Those subjected to it are eight times more likely to attempt suicide, and nearly six times as likely to report struggling with serious depression, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Minors are particularly vulnerable.
Jacob Candelaria, an openly gay New Mexico state senator who sponsored the bill, stressed to reporters that protecting children from abuse "transcends party labels and ideological differences." He also thanked victims of conversion therapy for sharing what they went through to muster support for the bill.
"Their stories did not fall on deaf ears," Candelaria told LGBT Weekly. "They turned their suffering into a force for good, and because of them, and for them, we have made history."
I'm trying so hard to fully understand this. So you take your kid's share of public funding as a scholarship from the school and apply it to a private school? In theory it sounds logical but once you stop thinking about your own kid and the entire school that your effecting it becomes less savory for me
I'm trying so hard to fully understand this. So you take your kid's share of public funding as a scholarship from the school and apply it to a private school? In theory it sounds logical but once you stop thinking about your own kid and the entire school that your effecting it becomes less savory for me
Yep. Taxes are going to fund private schools in Arizona So basically there's really no more separation of church and state.
I'm trying so hard to fully understand this. So you take your kid's share of public funding as a scholarship from the school and apply it to a private school? In theory it sounds logical but once you stop thinking about your own kid and the entire school that your effecting it becomes less savory for me
Rusty in my experience what I've seen is kind of the opposite. Rather than segregation, kids that struggle in the classroom are simply given passing grades that they haven't earned in the name of funding. It's another work around to the same problem tho
this is stupid.
the argument is usually that I'm paying taxes for the public school, so if I take my kid out and send them to private school I should get to use my tax dollars towards the private school education.
but most of us are paying taxes for public schools even though we don't have kids. which is how it should be.
not to mention all the societal fallout from not having well-funded public schools.
this is stupid.
the argument is usually that I'm paying taxes for the public school, so if I take my kid out and send them to private school I should get to use my tax dollars towards the private school education.
but most of us are paying taxes for public schools even though we don't have kids. which is how it should be.
not to mention all the societal fallout from not having well-funded public schools.
It's not going to be just social.
If I have to open a manufacturing facility where people can barely read, write, and count vs another place where I know people can do that, guess where I'm going.
Republicans are going to bring this country back to its agrarian days, and their base is cheering.
Alabama has been trying on the nickname “New Detroit.” Its burgeoning auto parts industry employs 26,000 workers, who last year earned $1.3 billion in wages. Georgia and Mississippi have similar, though smaller, auto parts sectors. This factory growth, after the long, painful demise of the region’s textile industry, would seem to be just the kind of manufacturing renaissance President Donald Trump and his supporters are looking for.
Except that it also epitomizes the global economy’s race to the bottom. Parts suppliers in the American South compete for low-margin orders against suppliers in Mexico and Asia. They promise delivery schedules they can’t possibly meet and face ruinous penalties if they fall short. Employees work ungodly hours, six or seven days a week, for months on end. Pay is low, turnover is high, training is scant, and safety is an afterthought, usually after someone is badly hurt. Many of the same woes that typify work conditions at contract manufacturers across Asia now bedevil parts plants in the South.
“The supply chain isn’t going just to Bangladesh. It’s going to Alabama and Georgia,” says David Michaels, who ran OSHA for the last seven years of the Obama administration. Safety at the Southern car factories themselves is generally good, he says. The situation is much worse at parts suppliers, where workers earn about 70¢ for every dollar earned by auto parts workers in Michigan, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Many plants in the North are unionized; only a few are in the South.
this is stupid.
the argument is usually that I'm paying taxes for the public school, so if I take my kid out and send them to private school I should get to use my tax dollars towards the private school education.
but most of us are paying taxes for public schools even though we don't have kids. which is how it should be.
not to mention all the societal fallout from not having well-funded public schools.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The reason you don't generally hit runways is that they are easy and inexpensive to quickly fix (fill in and top)
this is stupid.
the argument is usually that I'm paying taxes for the public school, so if I take my kid out and send them to private school I should get to use my tax dollars towards the private school education.
but most of us are paying taxes for public schools even though we don't have kids. which is how it should be.
not to mention all the societal fallout from not having well-funded public schools.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The reason you don't generally hit runways is that they are easy and inexpensive to quickly fix (fill in and top)
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The reason you don't generally hit runways is that they are easy and inexpensive to quickly fix (fill in and top)
@thespectatorindex: BREAKING: The Carl Vinson strike group, which includes an aircraft carrier, will make its way from Singapore toward the Korean Peninsula