Vouchers are welfare for the wealthy. The myth of helping poor kids yields to the nightmare of using tax dollars to subsidize exclusionary religious private schools for wealthy and paying subprime voucher schools for the poor. “Once reserved for low-income students and those with disabilities, state scholarships, often called vouchers, are now available to all – and they’re fueling an unprecedented pipeline of public money, estimated at $3.4 billion this year, into private, mostly religious schools across the Sunshine State… “‘This is just a subsidy for wealthier people — people who already have the advantage,’ said state Rep....
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Send Your Legislator a Valentine!
Remind your representative and senator that we love our Kansas public schools. You can print or copy the .png in this post or, if you’re feeling crafty, you can create your version using our Canva template HERE...
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Leave a Comment Vouchers Hurt Ohio (and every other state with them)
“Ohio is a state where families earning $60,000 a year are subsidizing the private school tuition of families earning $300,000 a year,” Dan Heintz, educator and school board member. https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-02-03/education/debate-intensifies-over-oh-school-vouchers-as-trump-advocates-expansion/a95010-1 Originally posted to Facebook 2/3/25....
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Leave a Comment Kansas Republicans push for massive school voucher tax credits. What about the budget?
We testified against SB 75 which turns opting kids out of public school into a new state tax giveaway with no strings attached. “But that doesn’t make S.B. 75 a good bill. Public schools are, as one opponent said, the “heart of Kansas communities.” Private school vouchers would weaken that heart. And probably put the state on shaky fiscal footing, to boot. It’s hard to see the upside.” Read more at: https://www.kansas.com/opinion/guest-commentary/article299329899.html Originally posted to Facebook 2/7/25....
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