The Kansas House K-12 Education Budget Committee will hold a hearing on HB2119, an ESA bill soon. We strongly oppose this bill. Here’s a good explanation we found in Forbes magazine of some of the issues.
“Parents are expected to navigate this unregulated marketplace on their own. ESA bills and laws talk a lot about parent empowerment, but have little to say about providing parents safeguards against fraud and incompetence. Nor are there protections in place for students whose parents fail to exercise good judgment. And the unbundled approach to education contains many unknowns; what, for instance, happens if a family uses up all their ESA allowance before procuring a math or English course for their child?”
Peter Greene, Forbes.com, February 1, 2021
Originally posted to Facebook on 2/6/2021