The Wichita private school Lahn co-founded — financed by Chase Koch — answered to none of the rules Iowa's public schools must follow. His plan for Iowa: expand the $314 million voucher program and 'wipe out' the board that licenses teachers.
Asked whether Pennsylvania should join Trump's new federal private-school tax credit program, Garrity answered: 'I would a hundred percent.' She also wants Lifeline Scholarships — all in a state a court found unconstitutionally shortchanges poor districts.
Idaho cut most state agencies 4% this year and 5% next year to absorb a $155 million hole created by matching Trump's federal tax cuts. In July, Brad Little pointed at the $250 million left over and said he won't be putting any of it back.
House Bill 752 took effect in Idaho on July 1. A first offense is a misdemeanor. A second one within five years is a felony. Gov. Brad Little signed it, along with a second law fining schools $100,000 for not reporting kids to their parents.
HHS wants to strip the standards that have defined Head Start since 1965 — class-size limits, teacher qualifications, disability screening, and the rule that says the program takes every eligible child regardless of disability or a parent's citizenship.
Lindell's 72-page plan cuts education by $4.9 billion, healthcare by $11 billion and public assistance by $3.6 billion — then makes up $16.5 billion of it with the 'Lindell Direct Assistance Program,' his own charitable model.
Trump's HHS scrapped the rule capping child care copays at 7% of a family's income. On July 30 the Senate had a chance to undo it. These 14 Republicans we track voted no.
Congress put it in writing: no law lets the Education Department hand its jobs to other agencies. Then it passed the bill anyway, asked for briefings it never got, and started writing new laws to make the whole thing legal after the fact.
H.R. 899 is one sentence long. But abolishing the Department of Education is only the loud part of the plan — the quiet part is a new, uncapped federal tax credit that drains public school money into private and religious schools.
