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Do We Value an Educated Community?

Do We Value an Educated Community?

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August 21, 2026

On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner led 70 enslaved and free Black
Americans in a violent rebellion intended to awaken his white
neighbors to the brutality of slaveholding, Responding to fears
that educating slaves was dangerous, states across the South made
it a crime to teach enslaved Americans to read and write, Denial
of access to education read them out of society, The fledgling
Republican Party passed the Land Grant College act that funded
public universities, Andrew Johnson vetoed the bill, In 1954 the
Supreme Court ruled that separate schools were inherently unequal
and unconstitutional, When Ronald Reagan was elected he vowed to
work for abolishing the Department of Education and to push tax
dollars from public schools to private academies, Donald Trump’s
education secretary pushed to expand voucher programs, The claim
was that vouchers would save money, but Arizona’s biggest voucher
program in the nation blew a hole in the state budget, In
Texas a voucher program was passed into law, which will leave
public schools across the state underfunded and closing, In
Arizona the state supreme court ruled that opponents to a voucher
program won’t get a ballot measure in front of voters this fall,
In 2026 it seems the intent is to exclude certain Americans from
participation in the Enlightenment principles on which the nation
was founded.

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