Posted on 02/09/2017 8:09:13 AM PST by Titus-Maximus
From “The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are (Still) Going Broke” (2003) by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi. Ms. Warren is now a U.S. senator from Massachusetts:
Any policy that loosens the ironclad relationship between location-location-location and school-school-school would eliminate the need for parents to pay an inflated price for a home just because it happens to lie within the boundaries of a desirable school district.
A well-designed voucher program would fit the bill neatly. A taxpayer-funded voucher that paid the entire cost of educating a child (not just a partial subsidy) would open a range of opportunities to all children. . . . Fully funded vouchers would relieve parents from the terrible choice of leaving their kids in lousy schools or bankrupting themselves to escape those schools.
We recognize that the term “voucher” has become a dirty word in many educational circles. The reason is straightforward: The current debate over vouchers is framed as a public-versus-private rift, with vouchers denounced for draining off much-needed funds from public schools. The fear is that partial-subsidy vouchers provide a boost so that better-off parents can opt out of a failing public school system, while the other children are left behind.
But the public-versus-private competition misses the central point. The problem is not vouchers; the problem is parental choice. Under current voucher schemes, children who do not use the vouchers are still assigned to public schools based on their zip codes. This means that in the overwhelming majority of cases, a bureaucrat picks the child’s school, not a parent. The only way for parents to exercise any choice is to buy a different home—which is exactly how the bidding wars started.
Short of buying a new home, parents currently have only one way to escape a failing public school: Send the
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These aren’t the school vouchers you are looking for.....
Here is what she really meant:
“A well-designed DEMOCRAT voucher program would fit the bill neatly.”
Two multi-millionaire one-percenters have absolutely no clue as to why Middle Class people are going broke. I wonder what their game is (didn’t/won’t read the book).
Teepee-schooling.
All of the Democrats from Schummer to Warren are imploding and contradicting themselves on a wholesale manner now. It’s as if they’re all in a state of senility?
I say let them contradict themselves until they’re blue in the face. Then reveal what they said before and now.
Fauxahantis is too stupid to be embarrassed.
Government schooling is like having the Soviet Union squatting in every town and county in the U.S. It must be destroyed. A government school is a factory. It turns out Hillary voters.
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