TN repug arguing federal funds to feed schoolkids should be performance tested

[butters]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...p&cvid=91d64816d0124308a4db9b3b868158a1&ei=23

A Tennessee Republican state lawmaker is arguing federal funds to feed school children from low-income families should not be accepted unless it can be proven that the program will increase test scores.

GOP Rep. John Ragan, who has a history of targeting school students from low-income households, told the legislature’s Joint Working Group on Federal Education Funding he was concerned about “tying ourselves to the federal government,” and inquired about the amount of “waste” in the federal program, according to a video clip posted by The Tennessee Holler. The Working Group’s purpose is to determine how the State of Tennessee can reject $1.8 billion in federal education funds.

“Tennessee receives $1.8 billion in Title I, IDEA, and other federal program funding each year, which support low-income students, students with disabilities, and school lunch programs.”

But The Tennessean also reports the Working Group’s members have been tasked not with whether to reject the funds, but “with recommending a strategy for how to reject the federal funds.”

Responding to the video clip of Rep. Ragan, Johnson, a retired special education teacher, wrote on social media: “Sure, because how do we know kids with food in their bellies perform better? (there is research for that.) How do we know kids with speech problems improve w/speech therapy? (Research for that too.) Guess 7 yr olds need to prove to him they’re working for those meals.”

i don't know for a fact, but i'm guessing this guy also votes anti-abortion. fucking piece of shit.

 

[dkovic77]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...p&cvid=91d64816d0124308a4db9b3b868158a1&ei=23







i don't know for a fact, but i'm guessing this guy also votes anti-abortion. fucking piece of shit.

Gotta give that money to gun manufacturers where they can put more guns in the hands… or something equal inane.

 

[butters]

Gotta give that money to gun manufacturers where they can put more guns in the hands… or something equal inane.

grinds my tits, this one does. for god's sake, feed the children/take care of the needy is one of the most basic tenets of christianity

 

[RobDownSouth]

The federal government has managed to stay out of the vast majority of day-to-day business of public schools. The only direct funding they provide the state is primarily through Title 1, which absorbs some of the cost of teaching children with disabilities, physical and mental.

Tennessee seems to be vying to wrest the "cousinfucker crown" from Alabama.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

grinds my tits, this one does. for god's sake, feed the children/take care of the needy is one of the most basic tenets of christianity

They are not "Christians". They just claim to be.

 

[butters]

The federal government has managed to stay out of the vast majority of day-to-day business of public schools. The only direct funding they provide the state is primarily through Title 1, which absorbs some of the cost of teaching children with disabilities, physical and mental.

Tennessee seems to be vying to wrest the "cousinfucker crown" from Alabama.

they're looking for any reason they can to reject federal funding (for anything, it seems!) in order to not have to comply with the strings attached... they'd love the cash, but not the obligations. Now they have to sell it to a public hungry for infrastructure improvements and more jobs while waving the Big Brother's Watching YOU flag, hoping to scare the voters into agreeing fed money's not wanted.

 

[colddiesel]

Just read John Ragan's wiki entry. If you can!

 

[butters]

shame on you, tate reeves, shame. on. YOU.

“The cruelty of being the poorest state in America and choosing – choosing – to turn down federal aid for poor children to eat,” remarked Nikole Hannah-Jones in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Keith Boykin, author, and co-founder of the National Black Justice Coalition, pointed out that funds allocated for welfare in Mississippi have been directed towards extraneous projects, such as the construction of a sports stadium.

“Mississippi gave millions of dollars of welfare funds to former NFL quarterback Brett Favre to build a volleyball facility for his daughter’s school, but they won’t take federal funds to feed hungry children. Because helping poor kids is the kind of welfare that Republicans hate,” stated Keith Boykin on X, formerly known as Twitter.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/m...&cvid=2c7e107ed6fd46aaaeea414f30fc17e7&ei=129


the 'help' amounts to a measly $10 per week for 3 months... so a maximum of $120

how much does reeves spend on a family meal, or on his own prodigious belly if he eats out alone?

is his reluctance linked to law wage payers seeking to retain/acquire workers for shit pay?

 

[Lazaran]

shame on you, tate reeves, shame. on. YOU.



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/m...&cvid=2c7e107ed6fd46aaaeea414f30fc17e7&ei=129


the 'help' amounts to a measly $10 per week for 3 months... so a maximum of $120

how much does reeves spend on a family meal, or on his own prodigious belly if he eats out alone?

is his reluctance linked to law wage payers seeking to retain/acquire workers for shit pay?

I don’t know how I missed this thread earlier, but…JFC…SAD!!!

Tate Reeves and Tennessee "republicans" are…just…

Sending some instant bad karma to those fuckers right now.

 

[butters]

15 states so far

 

[Bn2f]

15 states so far

My fu*$%#! poor ass state included!
Should be a question posed to the 2 remaining R candidates as they campaign here before the SC primary.

 

[Bray123]

C'mon, it's priorities.

How can the country afford to put food into children's mouths and billions into Elon Musk's bank account at the same time?