It's a step in the right direction.
I'm still spaced from our never-ending trip, so I'll let you do the pinging.
I'm not a supporter of vouchers. I want government out of education altogether, and education sold on the free market.
Many homeschoolers that I know see it the same way, but maybe some are supportive. I'm not sure. I'll give it a ping.
It's a government hand out for something that the parents are unable or unwilling to do for themselves. It is also a government subsidy for private schools. If the government is going to subsidize those schools then why shouldn't the government have a say over what is taught and who gets admitted? Is that what you want? Is there any doubt that the next Democrat administration won't do exactly that?
A couple of points ...
1.The money doesn't have to be "new" money. The federal government already funds much of the cost of public schools in districts with disproportionate numbers of children from poor families. That appropriation can fall as federal opportunity scholarship money goes up.
2.The Democrats in the Senate cannot filibuster this matter, since it is a budget item.
3.What's MOST important about private schools is that they are free to bring God and prayer into the classroom.
4.A Baptist church in my little town recently re-located and, in conjunction with this, announced that it was going to change from a predominantly black church into a multi-racial church. With the re-location, it opened a K-12 school, and - almost overnight - it became multi-racial.
5.The public schools in my town meet our state's standards, and so no opportunity scholarships would be available to the children attending the other private schools here. I imagine, however, that if the feds started funding opportunity scholarships, we would start agitating our state legislature to expand choice in education.