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English title: Donald TRUMP was celebrated by the young generation – The boy before him forms 666 with hand President Donald Trump will spend the bulk of Friday with the teachers and staff of Saint Andrew Catholic School. The president is holding a listening session with parents, teachers and students on school choice and how the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program helps disadvantaged students attend private and alternative schools they would otherwise be unable. Jon East, a spokesman from Step Up For Students which runs the scholarship program, said: “I think it’s heartening that people want to see what’s happening in Florida and also take a look at this scholarship program, the tax scholarship program because it does serve the kids, the most disadvantaged students in Florida.” After visiting the school, President Trump will head to Palm Beach, Florida to join top republican donors at the Republican National Committee Spring Retreat Dinner where he is listed as a featured speaker. Days after he called on Congress to pass a school choice bill, President Donald Trump is set to visit a Catholic school in Orlando Friday, along with Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, where hundreds of students attend the school using a voucher from the state’s tax credit scholarship program. During his stop at St. Andrew Catholic School, Trump is expected to once again tout the Sunshine State’s program, as he did in his recent address to Congress. Under Florida’s plan, the state uses public dollars to pay for private K-12 school tuition for low-income students and students with disabilities. The Trump administration has yet to outline how it will pursue the president’s plan to steer $20 billion in federal funding to school choice policies – a pledge he made on the campaign trail. His forthcoming budget is likely to restore and expand the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship, but it’s unclear whether a larger school choice package will come in the form of voucher or a tax credit. But in a new report published Friday, researchers for the Center for American Progress argue that a voucher plan may not be a viable policy solution for 85 percent of the country’s school districts. The report identified 9,000 school districts – out of the roughly 13,000 school district in the U.S. – that its researchers categorized as “sparse,“ where there are four or fewer schools and where voucher proposals are “highly unlikely to work and could decimate the public system.“ The report identifies another 2,200 school districts as “average,“ where there are five to eight schools and where vouchers “may not work and risk harming existing schools’ ability to serve millions of students.“ Opponents of voucher programs and tax credit scholarships say voucher programs take money away from neighborhood public schools. And because the private and religious schools operate outside the federal checks and balances placed on public schools, opponents also argue that they lack accountability, increase segregation and fail to protect students from discrimination. Moreover, a series of studies on the effectiveness of voucher programs in Florida, Indiana, Louisiana and Ohio – the largest voucher programs in the country – do much to discredit their effectiveness. Students who won publicly funded vouchers to escape their failing public schools and enroll in private schools in Louisiana, for example, are doing worse academically than those who weren’t awarded vouchers and remained in low-performing schools, according to two different studies. “It’s sad that rather then [SIC] listening to the public they are sworn to represent and who have a deep connection to public schools, Trump and DeVos’ first official joint trip is to a religious school, which they use as a backdrop for their ideological crusade,“ American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten said in a statement ahead of Friday’s visit. #PedoDonald #ILLUMINATI666 #Mafiastructure
