articles…
canoecountry.com/pioneer/
nytimes.com/2006/01/06/natio … orida.html
If the money our government spent on every child for school was given to the parent to spend on the school of their choice, then wouldn’t this be giveing the power to the parents instead of the government?
What percent of people go to private school? If they too started to recieve this money, how much would it lower individual money allowance?
yet it’s not even about that,… it’s about how it uses public money to pay tuition for 730 students who have left failing public schools and enrolled in private schools. And only the failing schools made this offer possiable.
What were the reasons this was rejected???
Bush said the voucher program had a positive effect because it “put pressure on school districts to focus on the underperforming schools.”
Philosophy at work, it would just take some constant tweaking to make sure this philosophy would keep working.
“it violates the Florida Constitution’s requirement of a uniform system of free public education”??? …Well this ruleing makes no sence. I assume it’s all apart of some grand disign that goes way above our heads.
no here it is… “diverts public dollars into separate private systems parallel to and in competition with the free public schools,”
Well how is competition with public schools wrong? It merely puts the power out of the failing schools and diverts them to someone more liklely to succeed. Maybe the competition is for anouther resource, like teachers… Well then teachers are finding a way to get more money according to their value. Yet then public schools would be limited to a salery cap, and private schools merely have to charge more then the voucher. It all comes down to price per kid,… and comoditizing this money. So how is this money distributed that inner city schools have it worse off in funding? It seems the whole system is shadey and needs dramatic restructering according some sounder priorities.