Vouchers are welfare for the well-off. Claims they are about helping poor kids are just the way to get them passed. Then they get expanded so that the majority of students using them never attended public schools. Watch this video from Texas, where rural Republicans are voting with Democrats to...
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Economist makes the argument against vouchers
Another study showing how the free market is not appropriate for education, especially for the disadvantaged kids they claim it will help. “Harris explains how schools are ill-suited for a free market approach, and so, when looking at current school choice policy he finds, ‘the current direction of policy is...
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No comments Legislators looking to model Kansas ESAs after Arizona’s controversial program
The interim education committee meetings made clear that ESAs, with Arizona’s program as a model, will be coming back to the Kansas legislature in 2024. Watch this video to see why this is a terrible idea and why we will ask legislators why they’re ignoring the obvious problems with these...
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No comments Florida school vouchers dysfunctional by design
“Multiple key legislators WANT TO BRING THIS TO KANSAS and they refuse to put provisions into bills that would prevent this kind of abuse even though we keep pointing out stories like this one. The inescapable conclusion is that the abuse is a feature, not a bug. For what feels...
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