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Did you remember to celebrate the anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal on Monday? It’s time to
Brandon Rittimans pot tax flow chart: (available on Scribd for us visual learners). So the first 40% goes to school construction upgrades, especially in rural districts. Maybe I'll finally get screens on my windows. However, 12% of this fund is reserved for charter schools, even though the title is "Public School Capital Construction Assistance Fund". How did that work?
I took out the image because all I saw here were bubbles and arrows – no labels. But you can find it on scribd at https://www.scribd.com/document/321267721/Flow-Chart-Marijuana-Revenue-04-06-2015-Plain
As I'm sure you know, MJ, charter schools are public schools.
As I'm sure you should know, V, not all charter schools are public schools, although most receive some public funding. They may also receive private funding, and do not have to accept all who apply, leading to the charge that they cherry-pick their students. Kipp Academies, for example, are infamous for accepting special education students to fluff up their October counts, then expelling the students when /if they become disciplinary problems.
Teacher's unions and due process protections usually do not apply in charter schools. Often, depending on the state, teachers do not even have to have teaching degrees, although parents are not necessarily informed of this limitation. Students do not necessarily have the same constitutional protections as those in real public schools, either.
From Bruce Baker's School Finance 101 blog:
Baker's special interest propaganda doesn't chnge the fact that charter schools are public schools. If they are private, why go through the rigamarole. Even your own alexander story confirms that. Charter schools are public schools.
Now you're just playing word games. All "charter schools" have a "charter", that is a mission approved by the Colorado Department of Education. The amount of public funding can go from 20-30% for federally funded programs to 100%.
There are also 100% private schools, which still have a charter from the CDE, but receive zero funds because they have a religious mission. Woods, et al, would like to change that so that private religious schools can get more federal $$.
So if your little word games require you to say that if a school gets 20-30% public funding, it is now a "public school", then go for it. I don't buy it, and neither do most teachers
Point is, marijuana tax money should not be funding privately funded charter schools. The whole way amendment 64 was sold to the public was that we would be using 40% of the "sin tax" on cannabis to improve the educational opportunities for low-income kids and fixing our crappy school infrastructure that TABOR had kept in limbo for so long.
Charter schools which receive most or all of their funding from private foundations or fees typically do not serve low-income kids. They should not be benefiting from the "weed tax".
Word games? Sorry but when people talk about charter schools they are referring in the main to public charter schools. Lots of things have charters. Generally the types of schools under discussion are standard public, public charter and private in relation to proposed voucher systems. Certainly if you're talking about any school system's charter schools, such as DPS charter schools, you are talking about schools that are part of the DPS system, not private schools.
If they are created under state laws under the aegis of public school boards and get public funds, they are public schools. If they get extra private funds, great, they still don't charge tuition. If teacher union control is necessary to make a school public, I doubt that any rural school would qualify. Most large districts are unionized, most small ones aren't. But Holyoke is still very much a public school./p>
Cannabis taxes should not go to privately funded educational entities that discriminate against poor and special needs kids. Only 100 percent public funded schools, charter or not, should get public funds.
I never use facebook. I actually opened an account but never went back. Your theory that only 100 percent tax supported schools should get extra tax support is untenable. It wouls mean turning down every philanthropic grant like bill gates and probably banning pta bake sales. Sorry, that is just silly.
This certainly doesn’t look good for Obamacare
I never though it would work without a public option or that mandate without public option would do anything but keep us at the mercy of for profit insurers.
In the beginning I was pleased to see improvements in terms of the situation with pre-existing conditions, companies not being able to drop you when you got sick and less profitable and that for myself, someone who has to get insurance privately, it made the same crappy high deductible high copay I had significantly more affordable but that's disappearing fast. It never gave me r our popuation as a whole access to real quality healthcare at an affordable cost. I'll finally be able to get that with Medicare soon.
The only real solution will be when we all have that as our basic birth right package and can add more if we want, like in every other modern industrialized country on the planet and some not so modern ones..
My husband is already on it and it's the best coverage he's had since before we became self employed. ACA isn't enough. The Colorado plan isn't enough and besides it doesn't belong in the state constitution any more than Medicare belongs in the US constitution.For profit blood sucking insurers never were or will be the answer. Choice is a delusion. We have no choice as to whether we're going to develop a serious illness or condition. We have no choice but to live in bodies that require maintenance. Healthcare should not be a treated like any other product or service.
This was completely foreseeable.
After expenses Aetna *only* made $1.9Billion. really harmed by Obamacare
What changed for Aetna from a few months ago? The DOJ opposing their purchase of Humana.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/16/1560740/-Aetna-to-pull-out-of-many-Obamacare-exchanges-but-is-it-really-about-money
The calls for Kane's resignation didn't need to grow much. She's out tomorrow.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane resigning
Email just received from Mike Coffman: Bad News. Alert: Morgan Carroll has just reserved $1.2 million in fall television advertising.
Read em and weep, Mikey. Maybe your rich friend Trump can help you out?