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Friend,
This is the most important action alert we’ve sent you this year. And I say that knowing fully how chaotic this year has been so far. We’ve been monitoring Trump and Congress closely, and Congress is dangerously close to giving the Department of Education exactly what it wants most: a license to destroy our public school system and send more children to private, religious schools.
Tell your representative to REJECT a national school voucher program in the reconciliation bill now.
Along with slashing Medicaid and SNAP, the House’s budget reconciliation bill would create a national school voucher program to divert billions of federal taxpayer dollars to private, mostly religious schools.
Private religious schools can and do discriminate against families for their religious beliefs, gender, disabilities, and more. Public schools teach all kids. It’s as simple as that.
The House knows that vouchers are unpopular and that this plan wouldn’t get through Congress as a standalone bill; that’s why they’ve snuck it into the reconciliation bill–a unique legislative mechanism that only requires a simple majority to pass.
If this program is in the final bill, it will decimate the separation of church and state nationwide and harm the millions of students who rely on public education. We need only a handful of members to flip their votes to NO before this fight moves to the Senate. And we believe that vote will happen this week.
Take just two minutes to reach out to the House – tell them to REJECT privatization of education and other harmful provisions. Every message matters.
Sincerely,
Fish Stark
Executive Director
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