2007 The Year of the voucher for Choice in Education
I have been following a national trend since the DC for choice got vouchers. The sky didn’t fall, the world didn’t stop spinning, and more and more reasons for not allowing vouchers continue to go up in flames. I never liked the TTC for many reasons, but mainly not every parent could take advantage of the credit, especially middle class working parents.
Plain and simple, vouchers level the playing field for everybody. Parents should be able to decide what school environment is best for their children. This will be the year of the Voucher for Utah, and like many other issues we will lead out on this issue. NCLB was a failure, but Republican legislators’ didn’t want the Bush administration coming down on their necks, so they punted.
Not anymore, voters are ready for change and the old tactic of legislators leaving a committee meeting to take "an important call" just before a vote on the record will not be tolerated.
Money is no longer an issue, and we no longer have a Governor who says he will veto any voucher legislation.Here are some very compelling statistics and up to date information on vouchers.
For specific background, laws, participation rates, and other statistical academic information click on the state.
Mark Towner,The Political Spyglass
3 comments:
You are correct about ONE thing and incorrect about TWO things.
Correct: Vouchers will pass this year. The all out offensive from the “my-child-is-more-important-than-your-child” sector will finally pay off. Their extreme politics and hateful anti public education messages will come to fruition. The school yard brats will take their ball and go home. Nobody will miss them.
Incorrect #1): The public is ready for this. I fell off my chair when you said that one. If you think the fraud capital of the world is ready for all the MLM schemes and pseudo-education programs that will pop up, you are less intelligent than I originally thought. It will be a bankruptcy mess and a taxpayer fiasco.
Incorrect #2: Vouchers will level the playing field. How in the world can you even say that? How could the playing field be level when private schools have NO regulation and public schools are bound and gagged by more regulation than anyone can even keep track of? Imagine a football field on a 45 degree mountainside. Public education will be trying to go up the hill while private schools will be moving the ball down the hill. Level playing field indeed. It will be a bloodbath but, then again, maybe that’s what they want.
Anonymous....
Incorrect#1 Well all the parents I've talked with and polls taken seen to indicate the public in general is not happy with they way their kids are being taught. This comment is not directed at the good teachers in public education, and believe me we all knew in the teachers lounge who were the good and bad teachers. It's subject selection and all the social crap that is now required. As a former middle school and High School Substitute science teacher I had on average 35 kids in six classes per day.
Incorrect #2 You missunderstood the level playing field comment. I'm talking about the parents and kids here, not the schools. This is not a Public versus Private school issue.
THe Spyglass
PS "less intelligent than I originally thought"
Thanks, you have given me a compliment that you ever thought I was intelligent. Most folks think I'm a complete idiot. Now you can join their ranks as well....
Have a great day
Don't you just love the "it's not fair that public schools have to have red tape and it's holding them back so let's give all schools red tape" argument. It reveals the guiding principle behind the educrats' attack on school choice--protect the system at the expense of the kids.
Mr. Anonymous, if it's red tape that's keeping public schools from providing a better service to our children, then why do you wish to place that harmful red tape on all schools? I thought this was about the children...oh wait, that's right, it's about protecting your system and your power structure.
And by the way, experience shows that where school choice is implemented, the red tape in the public schools decreases. That's right. Milwaukee public school principals now control 90% of their budget unlike what was going on before vouchers were implemented.
Why is that? Because most of the red tape is self-administered by the district and the teachers union. Once they have real competition, they all of the sudden have to give up the red tape that keeps them in power or risk losing all of their students (and their funding).
THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FIGHT TO KEEP MORE CHILDREN HELD BACK BY RED TAPE. YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB!!
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