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Vouchers are Still Bad

Happy New Year! We hope you have enjoyed the holidays and are getting ready to advocate for our community schools and they children they serve. The 2022 legislative session starts later this month. To kick things off, here’s another explanation of why vouchers (aka “school choice”) are not an effective strategy for improving student achievement. We agree with the conclusion. “Better yet, let’s just eliminate school choice policies entirely. School choice is an experiment that we have seen fail time and time again (Milwaukee, New Orleans, Michigan), and yet the reformers continue beating the same old drum. School...
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Newsweek Opinion – Support Teachers

“Because of how much teachers do for students and communities, they’re expected to cure all societal ills. And when schools shut down, teachers get blamed, endlessly alternating between hero and villain. It’s easier to scapegoat teachers than it is to hold politicians accountable for investing in schools and providing pandemic support.” https://www.newsweek.com/we-must-support-our-teachers-opinion-1671299?fbclid=IwAR0ZVR_kSbJx2ekdtn4NEq637TmMyHvMMkSJRjaxs2q3a4svAEolFMLEeLE Originally posted to Facebook 1/23/2022...
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Again…Vouchers Don’t Work

The first voucher bill of the Kansas session was introduced yesterday. We strongly oppose vouchers whether they are called “tax credit scholarships” or “education savings accounts” or something else because the data show they do not help struggling students, they lack basic accountability measures and they take public money at a time when our public schools, which educate the vast majority of Kansas kids, are still not fully funded. Be informed.”Studies of voucher programs across the country have found that students who participate in private school voucher programs fare worse academically than students educated in public schools, and...
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