{"id":1215291,"date":"2022-01-13T21:50:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T02:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1215291"},"modified":"2022-01-13T21:50:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T02:50:37","slug":"what-are-we-going-to-tell-parents-watch-democratic-state-senator-break-from-party-confront-colleagues-over-school-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-are-we-going-to-tell-parents-watch-democratic-state-senator-break-from-party-confront-colleagues-over-school-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What Are We Going To Tell Parents?\u2019: Watch Democratic State Senator Break From Party, Confront Colleagues Over School Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhat-are-we-going-to-tell-parents-watch-democratic-state-senator-break-from-party-confront-colleagues-over-school-choice%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1215291&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Nebraska State Senator Justin Wayne \u2014 a Democrat \u2014 broke from his party to support school choice legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska\u2019s state legislature recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3newsnow.com\/news\/local-news\/school-choice-bill-fails-in-nebraska-legislature\">considered<\/a> a bill to give full tax credits to any donation made toward private school scholarships for low-income students. Though the legislation failed, progressive lawmakers from Omaha formed alliances with conservatives to support education opportunities for students stuck in failing public schools.<\/p>\n<p>As featured by school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis on social media, Wayne \u2014 who represents Florence and parts of North Omaha \u2014 repeatedly confronted lawmakers unwilling to pass the legislation. In one exchange with a Democratic colleague, Wayne expressed frustration over the notion that fixing Omaha\u2019s schools could take five decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you say it would take about 50 years to fix Omaha [schools]?\u201d Wayne asked State Senator Matt Hansen, who responded \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what are we going to tell parents in the meantime when they are looking for choice?\u201d Wayne pressed. After a lengthy pause, Hansen replied: \u201cI mean, honestly, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sen. Justin Wayne (D): \u201cDid you say it would take about 50 years to fix Omaha [schools]?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Hansen (D): \u201cYes\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wayne: \u201cSo what are we going to tell parents in the meantime when they are looking for choice?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hansen: \u201cI mean, honestly, I don\u2019t know.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YWzRXYc41U\">pic.twitter.com\/YWzRXYc41U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeAngelisCorey\/status\/1481342261975822342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In another viral exchange, Wayne asked his colleagues if they sent their students to schools in his district, as well as the district of Democratic State Senator Terrell McKinney \u2014 a challenge Wayne presented one year ago. \u201cJust curious if anybody did that,\u201d he said. \u201cAnybody move their kid \u2026 so we can go through the [transformation] that you keep telling my community to wait for together?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay, so nobody did that,\u201d Wayne continued after waiting for a response. \u201cBut your kids did go to private school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Nebraska Senator Justin Wayne (D) again calls out his colleagues for sending their kids to private school while opposing school choice for others. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WiXAmcBRN8\">pic.twitter.com\/WiXAmcBRN8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeAngelisCorey\/status\/1480999937844330501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though Democrats typically oppose them, school choice programs are extremely popular among the Democrats\u2019 minority voting base. As early as 2019, nearly 60% of black Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/4-key-policy-areas-where-the-democratic-leadership-and-black-voters-disagree\">held<\/a> favorable views of school choice, while only 31% held unfavorable views. Hispanic Democrats indicated 52% favorability, while 30% were unfavorable.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two years, however, education has become an increasingly salient voting issue as Critical Race Theory and LGBTQ ideology overrun American public schools. States have therefore been weighing various education reform measures \u2014 including bills to implement school choice and ban \u201cwokeness\u201d from the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-introduces-stop-woke-act-to-fight-critical-race-theory-in-florida-schools\">introduced<\/a> the Stop Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees (Stop WOKE) Act last month to oppose the teaching of left-wing ideology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur legislation will defund any money for K-12 going to CRT consultants,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cNo taxpayer dollars should be used to teach our kids to hate our country or hate each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re also not going to allow the staff or employees or teachers in our education system to be subjected to that type of training where they\u2019re forced to sit there and listen,\u201d DeSantis continued. \u201cThis is wrong when it\u2019s done to our kids, but it\u2019s also wrong to force employees to have to go through that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis also warned of deception surrounding the term \u201cequity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust to understand, when you hear equity used, that is just an ability for people to smuggle in their ideology because we don\u2019t need to have these terms,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe have a society based on equality, where you\u2019re treated equally. Regardless of your upbringing, regardless of your race, you have the same rights and privileges as anybody else. Equity is used to put the thumb on the scale in favor of their ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska State Senator Justin Wayne \u2014 a Democrat \u2014 broke from his party to support school choice legislation. Nebraska\u2019s state legislature recently considered a bill to give full tax credits to any donation made toward private school scholarships for low-income students. Though the legislation failed, progressive lawmakers from Omaha formed alliances with conservatives to support &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}