I've been thinking about this all day and it just doesn't make sense, but the problem may be that I expect it to make sense. I think it will have something to do with religious school.
It has to do with not educating anyone except the rich classes. They want to go back to the time when education wasn't funded and the majority were kept ignorant and stratified with relatively impoverished White people helping them control POC.
I think it is a mix of things, but that is definitely on the list. I also think punishing universities is pretty high up the list - taking away student loans + grants makes universities a pretty untenable situation. So you both punish students and educators. Centralizes power and control.
It's the same thing except higher up the ladder. It was already pretty impossible for many/most people. It just cows those in power to fear about losing it and throwing everyone else under the bus. As they've been showing thus far.
I kind of understand with my evil hat on why people would want to control or punish the humanities and things that teach people how to think about values and the human experience, if you were trying to sell White Jesus. I cannot get my head around why science is a target.
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Are they keeping the other half to facilitate theft of taxpayer money for "vouchers"?