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Mike Winstead retweeted
29 Jan 2025
Bad news for all those past voucher lobby memos pointing to Florida NAEP as a reason other states need Florida-style vouchers.
29 Jan 2025
BREAKING: Florida reading, math scores fall to lowest mark in more than 20 years on nation's report card.
The achievement gap and the % of 8th graders reading below a “basic” level was the lowest in the test’s history.
My latest for @OrlandoSentinel: orlandosentinel.com/2025/01/…
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29 Jan 2025
For the first time ever, Tennessee scored above the national average on all 4th and 8th grade NAEP Assessments. One would expect the Governor to be out touting this accomplishment. Not happening because it doesn't support the voucher legislation.
chalkbeat.org/tennessee/2025…
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Mike Winstead retweeted
16 Oct 2024
MCS is hosting a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Open House! Please join us for a short opening ceremony followed by an opportunity to tour our newly renovated space. #wearemaryville
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8 Mar 2024
Legislators will say, "we've put safeguards in our voucher bill to control future costs." Those "safeguards" will quickly be removed. A vote for this voucher bill is a vote for universal vouchers with no caps on the number of voucher students and no income limits.
8 Mar 2024
Arizona has had a voucher program since 2011. In 2022, it went universal. In the 2 years since, the cost has gone from $65 million to next year’s $950 million. It exploded the state budget and has bilked money from public ed.
Schools have been closed- now teachers are being fired
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Mike Winstead retweeted
6 Mar 2024
Bluntly put, voucher advocates are afraid of the standardized tests that public school kids take. Scared to death. Reason being- their results stink.
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Mike Winstead retweeted
7 Mar 2024
The financial aspect of vouchers is frightening.
6 Mar 2024
Someone is going to have to explain to me one day how this (voucher schemes) ever became a “conservative” cause.
Nothing fiscally conservative about it.
The fiscal note will explode TN’s budget.
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Mike Winstead retweeted
4 Mar 2024
“Ghost students” in a voucher scheme that’s already busted Arizona’s budget.
29 Feb 2024
Today we announced major indictments in the ESA program. This program is ripe for abuse, and the Legislature needs to design a better program.
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Mike Winstead retweeted
5 Mar 2024
Here is what is really happening behind the scenes with vouchers. “They are bending the will of the people…” These are innocent children. Leave them out of your dirty politics. Where are your ethics? newschannel5.com/news/newsch…
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Mike Winstead retweeted
5 Mar 2024
If vouchers were even a tenth as popular as their Right-wing lobbyists claim, none of these millions $$ and none of these threats would be necessary.
5 Mar 2024
REVEALED: Secret recording shows school voucher proponent talking of 'public hangings' of lawmakers
newschannel5.com/news/newsch…
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Mike Winstead retweeted
5 Mar 2024
No principles at all.
Fleecing taxpayers to fund private schools. That’s it, it’s that simple.
Won’t even benefit private school parents- tuitions will go up and they’ll be pulling out of pocket as much or more than they are now.
You’re being hosed.
5 Mar 2024
A leader in the TN chapter of Betsy DeVos’s voucher lobby group previewed the billionaire-backed “public hanging” strategy of forcing voucher votes.
Now playing out in TN, TX, and across the country.
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28 Feb 2024
So true. A parent of a 3rd public school student who does not demonstrate proficiency on the state test has to jump through hoops in order for the child to be promoted to 4th grade. That same parent can take a voucher and enroll the child in 4th grade in private school with ease.
28 Feb 2024
Lundberg... "Parents are Outsiders" Think about this... The Literacy Success Act took retention decisions out of the hands of parents and school staff. Where is parent choice there? Where does that responsibility push parents, students, and schools?
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Mike Winstead retweeted
27 Feb 2024
The things that have been wrapped up with vouchers border on the line of unethical. Issues that have been discussed at length will only be passed if vouchers are also passed, and the bottom line is none of it is what’s best for our Tennessee students! chalkbeat.org/tennessee/2024…
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Mike Winstead retweeted
28 Feb 2024
The $345 million annual price tag is a “conservative” estimate. In Arizona, a similar universal vouchers bill has ballooned to nearly a $1 Billion price tag.
26 Feb 2024
The Tennessee Fiscal Review Committee’s Analysis:
“The estimated annual growth in the program is conservative due to a limited amount of data from other states with similar programs and the inability to establish participation trends in those programs.”
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Mike Winstead retweeted
28 Feb 2024
“This bill was dropped in our lap last night at 5 o’clock. We have not had the proper time to vet this bill, to go through it. There’s a lot of unanswered questions.” — Rep. Todd Warner, R-Chapel Hill, who voted no. (3 of 3)
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Mike Winstead retweeted
27 Feb 2024
Celebrating Public Schools Week! 📚🍎 Huge shoutout to our dedicated school districts and incredible teachers for their unwavering commitment to education. 🏫
Thank you for shaping the future and empowering our students! 🙌👩🏫👨🎓 #PublicSchoolsWeek
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Mike Winstead retweeted
30 Jan 2024
Gov. Bill Lee’s proposal to expand school vouchers would offer $7,075 in state funds per participant to pay for the costs of attending private school. That is more than the state’s per-student contribution in more than one third of school districts. wpln.org/post/report-39-of-t…
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Mike Winstead retweeted
7 Nov 2023
A helpful explanation of TN's new A-F model. With info on how FL's system (model for TN) works. Unsurprisingly, grades/poverty highly correlated.
All kids can achieve and show growth. Let's weight that more so that we tell parents more about the IMPACT of the school.
7 Nov 2023
Tennessee is rolling out a new school accountability system that will assign a letter grade of A-F to every school in the state. Our infographic breaks down the details and shares lessons learned from A-F systems in other states.
View the infographic at nashvillepef.org/resources/
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