Nevada’s wealthiest take private school money
By Trevon Milliard, Reno Gazette-Journal
The state’s offer to families was $5,000 per child.
The promise: Nevada’s poor families would be afforded a new choice – private school.
But only 7 percent of students applying for the money live in areas reporting low household income, while nearly a third of takers reside in the state’s richest ZIP codes where median household incomes exceed $75,000 at the least.
A vast majority of applicants – 80 percent – live in neighborhoods where median household incomes outpace the state median of $51,000, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal’s analysis of information released about the 3,000 students seeking public money for private school.
A little more than half of Nevada’s public school students are low income, according to the Nevada Department of Education, but only 20 percent of program applicants identify as low income, according to the State Treasurer’s Office overseeing the program.
There is a reason those folks are in the bottom half.
Can you fix stupid?
The short answer DGU is NO…the long answer is WE NEED everybody.
Everybody contributes differently to the whole. In times like these people like us need to stick together.
Robin is right….we need to stick together.
Everybody cannot be the manager and make the big bucks, and because you pull wrenches for a living, for instance, does not mean you are not smart.
From long experience, many of the smartest, most intelligent and well read people I have known, were not college educated, and worked as labor, but their smarts allowed their employers to prosper while making subsistence wages.
There are plenty of smart people who live simply with less stress than the ambitious (sometimes not-so-smart) ones who are primarily money and appearance focused. (How am I going to make the lease payment on my new Mercedes this month might be their most consuming thought.)
A universal connection between ambition and intelligence cannot be made, nor can a universal connection between income and intelligence be made.
“The promise: Nevada’s poor families would be afforded a new choice – private school.”
The Truth: It is a rightwing tool for defunding public education and shuffling it to Christian haters.
Hmmm nails it. Sounds like another Reich Wing reverse Robin Hood scheme to me too.