-—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,-—
Money is NOT the problem in urban areas. Typical per-pupil expenditures are $20k/student, comparable to the wealthiest suburbs. The money goes to teacher salaries and a large administration.
Typically, urban govt schools have 100x the number of administrators per pupil as Catholic schools.
“The money goes to teacher salaries and a large administration.”
That’s right, and in the ‘burbs many of those administrators were let go (because they had no union protection); they, like many cops & firemen, were collateral damage of the teachers’ unions.