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Private Industry run on public funds for those who can afford it. And they talk about the Welfare State.
All the GOP sees is a whale in the Fed funding that they can bleed. America is in the later parts of a takeover by the church.
I vividly remember the Republican attitude in Boston 60 years ago. In private the Yankee elite made no effort to hide their hostility to public education. Vouchers were already being discussed to undermine public schools.
“The more voucher money families receive, the less schools have to offer in financial aid. The voucher revenue also makes it easier to raise tuition.”
Which means taxpayers don’t benefit from this at all. They’re merely pawns in that great American past time - Belly up to the Money Trough.
Don’t forget bussing, meals, after-school programs etc.
Them that has, gets.
Arizona, the first state to allow any family to receive public funding for private schools or homeschooling, the majority of families applying for the money, about $7,000 per student, were not recently enrolled in public school. In Florida, only 13% of the 123,000 students added to the state’s expanded school-choice program had switched from public school.
Meanwhile in Wisconsin, not only do vouchers reduce the overall state budget for public schools, but those same public schools must provide for special needs students in private schools, as well as transportation if they would have received it to their boundary public school. In addition, Wisconsin has charter schools. We have two types - those that are actually run by the school district itself, but with a different focus such as language immersion or the arts and the private schools, some of which have little to no accountability to anyone and have often become a money making enterprise for their founders, while becoming an academic failure. (Milwaukee charter schools have a long history of graft and failure.)
Speech, behavioral and physical therapy, learning disability support and more are all provided by the public school. That is if the private school even accepts them in the first place. And when it comes to proficiency testing, private schools “exempt” large numbers of students to raise their ratings - if they even do the testing.
The private/parochial schools have a website that tells them everything their local district must do for their students. It even has a link where parents can file a complaint if they don’t think their student is receiving the services.
The cumulative administrative overhead for private schooling as opposed to public must be staggering.
In the 2022-23 school year, before the expansion, EdChoice cost $354 million, on top of the $46 million for the Cleveland program, according to the state education department. That was already more than quadruple what EdChoice had cost a decade earlier.
The recent surge in applications will propel the price tag far higher…
The EdChoice line item is folded within the state’s overall budget for K-12 education, which is roughly $13 billion, and the EdChoice line item is not capped: The more families apply, the more it will cost.
press the meat starts off with polls that show Biden is dead in the water, belongs in a nursing home ect.
Liberal Media my ass
What about meeting educational standards? What about teacher standards? Can the private schools hire people off the street with no teacher training? Are teachers contracted year to year? Are their individual salaries known only to the school-runners? Naturally, no unions allowed.
the EdChoice scholarship
A Republican program to ruin private schools the way they’ve effectively busted public schools.
Steve Kornacki was starting to freak me out.
How to Become a Private School Teacher in Texas.
Although private school teachers in Texas are not required to have a state license to teach,
scholarships
They used to be awarded on the basis of academic achievement, motivation for the student to do well.
And in Kansas, there are 284 public school districts for 105 separate counties. Each school district is its own taxing entity with its own administrator, its own system for school busses, its own program for school lunches, and sports and music programs, and teacher salaries, and blah-blah-blah…In fact, Kansas leads the nation in the number of local government units, defined as individual taxing entities. School districts, libraries, airports and transportation systems, water districts, sewage districts, townships…there are many more. Throw in private school districts, all sucking up public monies, and Kansas is just plain stupid. Many governments, though, are in the process of transitioning from property tax mill levies TO sales tax, thus enabling the Haves to keep what they’ve got while forcing the Have Nots to keep even less.
I haven’t watched Kornaki (or any other TV news) in years, but the last time I saw him, he looked like he was in desperate need of a few tranqs and a spliff or two.
Financial need was assisted by grants and loans.
