Category: Education

School Freedom Roundup | July 2023

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Pennsylvania: After Governor Josh Shapiro caved to pressure from teachers unions and broke his own campaign promise to support Lifeline Scholarships for students in Pennsylvania’s poorest performing schools, the commonwealth remains in a budget stalemate. Shapiro said he would line-item veto the very school choice plan he previously vocally supported in order to avoid “a painful, […]

School Freedom Fund Releases First Ad in KY-GOV Race

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Washington, D.C. – Club for Growth Action’s allied School Freedom Fund has released their first ad in Kentucky’s 2023 gubernatorial election. The ad, Means and Motives, highlights Governor Andy Beshear’s decision to release violent criminals from prison during the Covid-19 pandemic and is part of a $2.9 million TV buy that will begin airing August […]

Club for Growth Statement on Joe Biden’s Student Loan Boondoggle

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“Forgiving Americans’ student loan debt will do nothing except transfer that debt burden to taxpayers. This is another government boondoggle that will ultimately exacerbate inflation and hurt economic growth and prosperity in America. Not to mention, erasing student debt would reward individuals for being irresponsible with their own decisions. The best way to help Americans […]

ICYMI: Supreme Court arguments suggest bright future for parental school choice, writes Club for Growth President David McIntosh

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In case you missed it, Club for Growth President David McIntosh penned an op-ed in FoxNews.com on how the Supreme Court arguments in Carson v. Makin signal a bright future for school choice. Read the full op-ed here. Excerpts: “Supporters of school freedom can take comfort in the fact that Supreme Court justices are pushing […]

WATCH LIVE: Club for Growth National Campaign for Parental #SchoolChoice

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WATCH: Club for Growth is live on the first stop of our National Campaign for Parental #SchoolChoice with Secretary Betsy Devos, Secretary Mike Pompeo, & Club for Growth President David McIntosh in Concord, New Hampshire! WATCH live now.

Club for Growth Launches Four Ads In Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, And New Hampshire To Hold Democrat Senators Accountable On Parental Choice

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Club for Growth announced the launch of four issue ads in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and New Hampshire, to hold Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) accountable for siding with education bureaucrats and voting against Senator Ted Cruz’s Amendment #969, which would have expanded parental choice in […]

ICYMI: Politico – “Club for Growth [Action] Launches Anti-Newsom Schools Ad

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Club for Growth Action will run a new ad in California on school closures. The 60 second ad highlights the bad judgement and hypocrisy of Governor Newsom and education bureaucrats, and will run Sunday, March 7th in Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Diego. Politico’s Mackenzie Mays published an exclusive report on the announcement. […]

Key Vote Alert – Senate – YES on Cruz Amdt #969

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“YES” on Cruz Amdt. #969 to H.R. 1319 Club for Growth strongly supports Senator Ted Cruz’s amendment #969, which would provide children with an option for in-classroom education instruction if the child’s local public school does not commit to reopening to 5-day-a-week, in-classroom instruction for the remainder of the current school year and the 2021-2022 […]

ICYMI – DMR: “Club For Growth Launches Ad Pressuring Speaker Pat Grassley To Support ‘School Choice’ Bill”

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Des Moines Register’s Stephen Gruber-Miller published an exclusive report on a new Club for Growth ad, “Time,” launching today in Iowa. The ad highlights Governor Kim Reynolds’s parental school choice legislation which recently passed the Iowa Senate, and asks Iowans to call state House Speaker Pat Grassley to take up and pass […]

Parental School Choice Gains New Momentum

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The pandemic has driven parental choice in education to the forefront of Americans’ minds as school closures force many parents to seek alternative education options for their children.  The momentum has led to efforts to expand school choice across the nation, including in Arizona where lawmakers advanced a bill that would expand school choice vouchers. […]