Katherine Bathgate
@KKBathgate
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Mama to 4, fighting for great edu for all. CEO at @schoolforward. Advisor at @statepolicy. Past: @charteralliance @edworkforcecmte @CMCnews. Home: 🏔 in UT.
Utah, USA
Joined April 2011
If school choice to you means telling parents how they can and can’t educate their own kids, it’s not school choice.
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Utah switching ESA vendors mid year has got to be one of the biggest ESA implementation blunders I’ve seen. Not offering commentary on the vendors themselves (don’t want to get yelled at) but holy Batman, this is bad.
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RT @SCOTUSblog: BREAKING: The Supreme Court affirms the Oklahoma Supreme Court's decision to block a religious public charter school.
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Great to see… With the caveat that we don’t want to over-regulate private choice. As charter leaders will tell you, too many freedoms have been stripped away over the years. How do we have a big tent but encourage education freedom that leads to great outcomes for kids?.
For the first time in its history, DFER is embracing public and private conceptions of school choice
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Way to go Texas! And grateful to every lawmaker, advocate, and parent who took on this fight. So many kids and families will have education freedom because of you!.
After almost 30 years, Texss joins the school choice family. Thank you @GregAbbott_TX @LtGovTX @BradBuckleyDVM and @CreightonForTX for all your work. Today's bill signing will be a great day for Texas families. Thanks to all for their work over the years: @ColleenDippel
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BREAKING: 10K+ kids won’t be left hanging for 25-26 school year. Utah’s ESA program continues for now. @Principal_Jon @RyankCantrell @SchoolChoiceNow @edchoice @inst4justice .
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As is typical, unions pushed back against UT’s ESA program and won a lower court decision today calling the program “uncondtiutional.” This is a tired game and one that choice advocates win 9/10 times. Glad the effort to appeal is already underway. #utahfitsall @edchoice.
While we are disappointed in the court’s decision on the Utah Fits All program, our commitment to Utah families and their right to make choices about their children’s education remains unchanged. We will be reviewing the ruling with our attorneys and preparing to appeal.
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If a state has an ESA program, who should decide what is “educational”? If none of these, comment with who should decide.
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Applicable to HB 455 in Utah too.
This passage of the Friedman Index seems pretty applicable now when thinking about SB 625 in AR. @edchoice
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Hey! Multiple vendor options. LOVE to see it. @edchoice @OppArkansas @JoeMag84 Those looking to learn more, check out why this is a good idea here —> @StatePolicy.
🚨NEW: @OppArkansas and @edchoice have released a letter outlining major concerns with Arkansas SB625. This bill would be a significant setback for education freedom by limiting enrollment periods, creating vague definitions of fraud, allowing the state bureaucracy to go after
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“Oops!” 🙄🙄.
"We're sorry. We made a mistake." -- Rahm Emanuel to me just now on what Democrats should say to parents when it comes to the years of school closures due to Covid. đź‘€.
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Time to fight for freedom over regulation in school choice programs. ESA programs are great, but less so if parents have to cut through endless red tape in order to use them. @StandTogether
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HUGE thank you to the women working for @united and @AmericanAir who helped get me home tonight. The customer service rep who answered my call and got a supt to rebook me. The gate agents who opened the door when I was 2 mins late for boarding. The flight attendants who offered.
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RT @jemcenaney: ❌ gatekeeping .❌ hoop-jumping .❌ “Mother, may I?”.❌ ridiculous regulations . ✅ give families direct access to $.✅ adopt ri….
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What a fun group to spend the afternoon with chatting all things education freedom! Thank you @PelicanInst for a fantastic Solutions Summit today. Loved being in the Pelican State with @ebendily @JoeMag84 @ClarkRimsza.
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En route to Louisiana to talk about education freedom and the GATOR scholarship. Could LA be the first ESA state to empower families over monopolies? @PelicanInst @ebendily @StatePolicy More:
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Sad news. Guess I better see some movies in 2026.
#BREAKING: @sundancefest is leaving Utah for Boulder, Colorado in 2027.
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Now hearing copy paper, glue, and index cards being denied. Seriously?! Guess we should make all district schools stop buying copy paper because it’s not educational or tied to a specific state standard.
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Things that are no longer being allowed in Utah because of legislation restricting how “choice” dollars can be spent: microscopes, graphing paper, audiobooks, Legos, crayons.
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