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What Republicans want is to dismantle the requirements against discrimination and receive the same federal dollars as block grants. The block grants are really important because they can use those to continue their re-segregation of public schools through charter schools.including religious schools.

A look at what has happened to the welfare program that switched from direct cash assistance to the poor from the federal government to block grants. Republicans have set up bureaucracies to ensure that the poor now receive very little cash assistance. In 1996, the federal government sent 60 to 70% of every dollar directly to the poor for food assistance. Today, the average is 20 to 25 cents per dollar. Republican states especially have siphoned off most of the assistance for other uses, like paying Brett Favre millions of dollars for speeches he never made.

The same will happen for education dollars meant to help poor schools, support girls’ sports, and prevent discrimination against certain categories of students. We are looking at more than just the destruction of federal government programs. Their loss will give state Republicans more power and money to create their own government solely for white people and the wealthy.