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Illinois and Massachusetts are definitely not slashing public school spending. Deep-red Florida is also increasing its educational budget, and so is deep-red Texas.

It's not like I have family or friends with kids going to public school or anything in those states, what do I know?

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Florida and Texas are spending because they make life for educators utter hell and there are plenty of other good reasons no teacher wants to go there. Illinois may be a single counterexample, but this is akin to saying "if you watch Craigslist for a few weeks you can get an amazing deal on one car" - the plan does not scale, and if a non-trivial number of the people in the market for [a used car / a better education job] tried to go for that target it would instantly dry up as there aren't enough to go around by many orders of magnitude.

Do you have receipts you would like to share, or have I just been unwittingly hosting an NPR vent line this whole time?

Florida is criminally investigating teachers who dare to call students by their preferred name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxINwPrff0Q

They've criminalized such awful things as having libraries in the classroom with books not approved by dear leader: https://www.muscalaw.com/blog/florida-teachers-could-face-fe...

Texas is doing the same: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-senate-bill-sb-4...

Definitely worth moving to a different state where just being a good teacher risks felony charges.

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