We’ve been telling you Kansas is a target for national voucher supporters in 2025. Here’s more proof. EdChoice, part of the well-funded national voucher lobby recently asked the Kansas Ethics Commission about whether it needs to register as a lobbyist and whether it can pay travel expenses, lodging and food and beverages for Kansas legislators to travel to its conference so they can be educated on how to promote vouchers in our state. (The answers were yes, and it can only pay for food and beverages.) Their representative explained, “We are here to bring people together and equip...
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Vouchers are Risks, Not Lifelines
Here’s a reminder that vouchers can be as harmful to academics as natural disasters for at risk families. Check out this NCPE image shared by Josh Cowen....
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Leave a Comment Eradication of public education is not “conservative.”
The new and radical school voucher push is quietly unwinding two centuries of U.S. education tradition. “[O]n one issue—school vouchers—some conservatives are playing the role of radicals. The general goal of vouchers is to allow families to use government funds to pay tuition at private schools, including religious schools. The idea has been around for more than a half-century but had gone almost nowhere in the U.S., until very recently. In just the past few years, it has gone from the political desert to a core issue that is sweeping across Republican-led states. “The general idea of vouchers...
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