Posted on 11/17/2014 1:49:58 PM PST by ThethoughtsofGreg
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has released the 19th edition of its annual Report Card on American Education, where it ranks states’ education policy based on six areas: state academic standards, charter school laws, home-school regulations, private school choice programs, overall teacher quality and policies, and digital learning opportunities.
One notable finding of the Report Card is that Texas does not encourage private school choice in a particularly robust manner. Drawing on research conducted by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, the report gave Texas an “F” grade for failing to offer a private school voucher program.
In a 2013 survey conducted by the Friedman Foundation and the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Texans said they would support such a voucher program by a two-to-one margin, or by 66 to 27 percent. The group most strongly supportive was Latinos, of whom 80 percent said they supported vouchers, and younger voters, of whom 74 percent said they were supportive.
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Texas has private schools and people are free to choose them.
Having government fund them is the question, especially if the government gets to regulate them.
I don’t know about private school vouchers. For example, a students sits in a private school, his parents are working hard to get the $500 dollars a month to pay for it, and all of a sudden a student waltzes in, $500 dollars a month paid by the taxpayer. How, exactly, does that make sense?
How, exactly, does that make sense?”
There are a whole lot of private schools all over Texas. One of the reasons they continue to flourish and students excel is because they are private and keep all kinds of government funding and government intervention OUT! Wish people would remember that he who pays the money makes the rules.
I am so opposed to vouchers for private schools. My children , all 4 of them, went to private schools and I had to do without a lot to be able to afford to send them there. My oldest son and daughter attended a prep school that had a very competitive basketball team. The coach decided it would be a good idea to give scholarships to inner city boys to increase the ratio of black to white in the school from 0% to 10% and maybe add some players to the basketball team. The scholarship students disrupted classes, didn’t conform to the dress code, and never received a passing grade. I was paying all this money to get away from this type of behavior. I pulled my children out and put them in the Catholic school an hours drive away.
The prep school founded in the 1930’s closed 3 years later.
ugh..increase the percentage
“Speaker Strauss has always been the stumbling block on this...”
I suspect that Mr. Straus will VERY QUICKLY behave, assuming that he wants to be around after his next Primary, in 2016.
There are new Sheriffs in town, with Dan Patrick being the top of the pack.
It is all about the money. Schools get X dollars per student. The Unions, while opposing school choice, are minimal compared to the school districts, who uniformly oppose them. Loss of students means a loss of money for the district, so fewer $50M football stadiums.
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