I wonder how they define 'low- and middle-income." Sounds like welfare if the same option isn't available for everyone. While I can't stand government schools, I fear that vouchers are the beginning of state-control of private schools. After all, if state money is being used, then they will start deciding what they can and can't teach.
“Currently, that option is available only to children in New Orleans and students with special needs in eligible parishes.”
That’s the part that I don’t like; we have a group here in NJ pushing for vouchers, but only in urban districts; in other words, suburban and rural taxpayers (who already pay for the urban public schools) will now be asked to pay for their private schools as well, and the costs (of both their own public school districts, as well as the urban schools) will force them to put THEIR children into their own crappy public school districts.
Both the Dems and the teachers’ unions know vouchers for all would spell the doom of them both.
-—I fear that vouchers are the beginning of state-control of private schools. After all, if state money is being used, then they will start deciding what...-—
The worst case scenario is a return to the status quo ante: fully private schools would return, if govt regulations became too restrictive.
The best-case scenario is a system where parents control their children’s education.
The price if doing nothing is a continued educational decline.
-—I fear that vouchers are the beginning of state-control of private schools. After all, if state money is being used, then they will start deciding what...-—
The worst case scenario is a return to the status quo ante: fully private schools would return, if govt regulations became too restrictive.
The best-case scenario is a system where parents control their children’s education.
The price if doing nothing is a continued educational decline.