Top Tweets for #LB364

over 4 years ago

🚨Slim margin of JUST 5 VOTES held a #neleg #LB364 #filibuster. IF PASSED, this bill would've opened a policy Pandora's box, allowing private schools to receive the benefits of public $$$ through a tax credit scheme w/ none of the public school funding strings! ❌⚖️🗳️

HollandMovement's tweet photo. 🚨Slim margin of JUST 5 VOTES held a #neleg #LB364 #filibuster. IF PASSED, this bill would've opened a policy Pandora's box, allowing private schools to receive the benefits of public $$$ through a tax credit scheme w/ none of the public school funding strings! ❌⚖️🗳️ https://t.co/PhkQ63KCjd

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Nebraska State Education Association @nsea_org

over 4 years ago

#LB364 cloture motion failed. Privatization proponents needed 33 yeas, got 28. We're grateful to the senators who stood strong for Nebraskans and their #publicschools. Now let's work to advance evidence-based policy solutions proven to promote equity and help all kids!

standforschools's tweet photo. #LB364 cloture motion failed. Privatization proponents needed 33 yeas, got 28.

We're grateful to the senators who stood strong for Nebraskans and their #publicschools. Now let's work to advance evidence-based policy solutions proven to promote equity and help all kids! https://t.co/1gdv6NXznP

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over 4 years ago

Thank you public school supporters! With your help, we have again defeated a bill to give public tax dollars to private schools. The vote to end the filibuster of #LB364 fell 5 votes short. #PublicFundsForPublicSchools

nsea_org's tweet photo. Thank you public school supporters! With your help, we have again defeated a bill to give public tax dollars to private schools. The vote to end the filibuster of #LB364 fell 5 votes short. #PublicFundsForPublicSchools https://t.co/coxFKx7FhT

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Paul Hammel @paulhammelNE @PaulHammelNE

over 4 years ago

ICYMI: Earlier today, 26 members of #NEleg, including the introducer of #LB364, voted against an anti-discrimination amendment that would have addressed many senators' concerns about diverting millions to private schools w/o civil rights protections in place for Nebraskans.

over 4 years ago

‘What trench are you in?’ Asks @MikeFloodNE in frustration over lack of working out compromises in #NEleg these days. It was different 10 years ago, Flood said. Cloture likely to block bill helping private schools.

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over 4 years ago

#LB364 I laugh when I hear that argument that teachers could make more in the "private sector", when it is generally understood that private schools by necessity pay less.

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over 4 years ago

#LB364 Amazing. Senators Hunt, M. Cavanaugh, Morfeld, M. Hansen, Pansing-Brooks, J. Cavanaugh, &c. attempt to keep on the subject, and then a pro-LB364 talks and it's like they haven't heard a thing. I suppose showing how "pro-opportunity" you are is just too hard to resist.

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Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist

over 4 years ago

@DeAngelisCorey Discussing Sen. @Adam_Morfeld's AM on #LB364 re: financial accountability seems a pertinent time to ask why out-of-state orgs like @schoolchoicenow + @edchoice are so invested in #NEleg. How much have they spent here? How much do they stand to gain? For SGOs, it's 5-10%.

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Michael J. Lewis II

@MichaelJLewisII

over 4 years ago

. #Nebraska #LB364 #PublicSchools

@DeAngelisCorey

over 4 years ago

Sen. Justin Wayne (D): "Did you say it would take about 50 years to fix Omaha [schools]?" Sen. Hansen (D): "Yes" Wayne: "So what are we going to tell parents in the meantime when they are looking for choice?" Hansen: "I mean, honestly, I don't know."

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over 4 years ago

#LB364 I don't think we will ever find our way back to the rails. A tax credit discussion veered all the way over to race, schools, competing unverified studies, special ed, DC schools, dismissal of honest statements, personal offense, and 8 more hours gone.

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over 4 years ago

Sen. @nebraskamegan: Voting for #LB364 does not improve @OmahaPubSchool. It punishes the kids they serve. Goes on to explain the 💵-for-💵 tax credit is 14.5 times more generous than any other kind of charitable giving & shifts tax burden to low- and middle-income Nebraskans.

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over 4 years ago

@NebraskaMegan rightly thanks @MattHansenNE, @senatormachaela, and @Patty4Nebraska for their comments after #AM1051 was hatefully defeated. I thank them too. And I thank Senator Hunt for attempting to make #LB364 palatable and passable. May #LB364 go down in deserved flames.

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over 4 years ago

The PROBLEM w/ #neleg #LB364 ISN'T the $5 million fiscal note. The problem is the aftermath, undoing Nebraska's commitment to protect public education. It opens the door for: -charter schools -preferential treatment for private schools -public school funding reductions -and more

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Lauren Gage @lngarcia

over 4 years ago

AM from @NebraskaMegan would’ve made private schools take in all special needs kids with $0 of funding. Many private schools would love to serve these kids but don’t have the fed $$ public schools do. This was a poison pill to the bill, and you wonder if she knew that. #lb364

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over 4 years ago

#NEleg just voted against an amendment to #LB364 that would have protected the civil rights of Nebraskans and prevented private schools from discriminating against kids + parents.

standforschools's tweet photo. #NEleg just voted against an amendment to #LB364 that would have protected the civil rights of Nebraskans and prevented private schools from discriminating against kids + parents. https://t.co/H0KgRwWC6R

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over 4 years ago

Sen. @NebraskaMegan reviewed the policies of private schools in Omaha, and only one stated they don't discriminate based on gender or sexual orientation. "We know private schools discriminate." #LB364 does nothing to protect Nebraskans from discrimination.

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over 4 years ago

In #LB364, assisting historically marginalized students is a potential side effect, NOT the primary intent and certainly not guaranteed. Though Sen Linehan has been amenable to changes, graciously incorporating additional restrictions, the bill's intent is a non-starter. 3/3

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over 4 years ago

When #neleg senators aren't forthcoming re: legislative intent or a bill's unintended consequences (e.g. #LB364 opens the door for private schools to receive public $$$), guardrails, eligibility, and benefit floors or ceilings aren't included in the drafting process. 1/