President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to reduce the Ministry of Education to his main functions. The directive tells what is left by the agency to prioritize money to school selection programs across America.
These programs – which are also called school vouchers and school freedom – allow parents to accept tax dollars allocated to their children to attend public schools and in most cases use that money to send it to private schools.
Trump’s executive order seeks to direct federal funds to private school vouchers
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The argument in support of this movement is that private schools often provide a better education for children.
In Tennessee, where programs supporters call them scholarships, a representative of the State House Todd Warner is a proud product of rural public schools. He is a self -written “intentional Republic”, but told ABC News that he believes that what some conservatives are trying to do for education is wrong.
“Public schools are the backbone of the community,” Warner said. “On Friday evening, Friday evening lights, football game. There is a place where everyone is gathering. There is the place where we bet and see our family before the match. This is where we cheer our children.”
In the last four years, in Tennessee, Stathaus Warner has been representing what he calls as a “rural folk” from so many red cities that Confederate flags continue to fly several homes and monuments.
“I am involved in reducing the Ministry of Education at the federal level,” Warner said. “I would like to see President Trump send more money back to the United States. I’m fine with this, but I don’t want to see this to go to the private sector. I want to see this to help our public schools.”
But in February, the governor Bill Lee signed the Tennessee program for a universal school selection program. He joined at least 29 states that allow some form of school vouchers, including about 15 states that do not take into account parental wealth.
Warner is currently working to limit the number of Tennessee vouchers.
He may have Trump’s cut in his life in his office and hang his red hat on the wall over a dead dollar, but Warner told ABC News that he didn’t mind being called a sale in Nashville because he knows that at home he represents south of the city, his constituents know that it is not.
“You know, the best memories in the life I have,” Warner said. “Some of them are in the public school, in the high school, you know, with these teachers, with these coaches. And so it is in many rural Tennessee. I want to say it’s a public school or is nothing.”
