The only way I see them working is they are limited and possibly income based.
Meaning if the voucher is worth 10k. You can only spend 10k. You can pay more. That’ll encourage schools to keep their prices down. If someone wants to send their kids to an 11k school they have to pay the whole 11k.
I don’t know the right dollar amount but there should be a cap. Right parents are often sending their kids to private schools anyway. The goal of vouchers is to push bottom scoring schools to do better or another way is you only get vouchers if you school is scoring in a certain category.
The school I attended was one of the top in the nation. My family was poor but hypothetically we shouldn’t be offered vouchers due to the quality of education provided.
I see inner cities getting the most benefit but rural America will still struggle. That’s a tough nut to crack since the population density is low.
Rural tends to spend less per student. Schools are funded by local taxes for the majority of the expenditures. When most your population is below poverty level income, you just don’t want the tax base.
You also can’t get private schools to compete for the 10 kids in the class.
So that’s one scenario I don’t know what the right answer is.
Quality source, thank you.
How do you see the vouchers working?
A flat rate per student or based on the tax you contribute?
The only way I see them working is they are limited and possibly income based.
Meaning if the voucher is worth 10k. You can only spend 10k. You can pay more. That’ll encourage schools to keep their prices down. If someone wants to send their kids to an 11k school they have to pay the whole 11k.
I don’t know the right dollar amount but there should be a cap. Right parents are often sending their kids to private schools anyway. The goal of vouchers is to push bottom scoring schools to do better or another way is you only get vouchers if you school is scoring in a certain category.
The school I attended was one of the top in the nation. My family was poor but hypothetically we shouldn’t be offered vouchers due to the quality of education provided.
I see inner cities getting the most benefit but rural America will still struggle. That’s a tough nut to crack since the population density is low.
That amusingly enough is also a reason why public schools cost more than private schools.
Rural tends to spend less per student. Schools are funded by local taxes for the majority of the expenditures. When most your population is below poverty level income, you just don’t want the tax base. You also can’t get private schools to compete for the 10 kids in the class. So that’s one scenario I don’t know what the right answer is.
But even though you don’t know the answer you’re okay with defunding the current solution because you don’t agree with it?
Since they’d still have public school, their situation would stay the same but it would improve the education of millions of poor minority children.
I think that’s a good thing.
But every parent that you supply with vouchers takes money out of the public system until it collapses.
Or it improves. It’s their choice. Right now public schools have a monopoly and vouchers break that monopoly. They can either improve or fail.
Either way the children benefit with a better education and that is what is important.
You don’t play the sink or swim game when an entire generation of kid’s education is on the line.