Is Trump's proposed school voucher program only for families below poverty line?

[Anonymous]

I keep reading "$12,000 in school choice funds to every K-12 student who today lives in poverty."

So only families making less than $25,000 per year will get this, or will it be tiered like other voucher programs? As in, families making $45,000 might get a $7,000 voucher and so forth.

[Anonymous]

If you make $45,000 and get a $7,000 voucher, what good does it do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you make $45,000 and get a $7,000 voucher, what good does it do?

Say your kid is at $13,000/year parochial, a family in that income range would probably be asked to contribute $4,000-6,500 per year after parish/school aid. So, a voucher would make the parochial free for those working-middle class families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you make $45,000 and get a $7,000 voucher, what good does it do?

Not every private school is $30,000 a year you know.

The voucher may not pay 100%, but it will bring tuition within reach for many families - particularly people of color.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you make $45,000 and get a $7,000 voucher, what good does it do?

Say your kid is at $13,000/year parochial, a family in that income range would probably be asked to contribute $4,000-6,500 per year after parish/school aid. So, a voucher would make the parochial free for those working-middle class families.

That would mean more kids, meaning the parishes would have to come up with their own funding for a lot more aid as well, so I don't see that working.

[Anonymous]

Yep. Not a lot of evidence that vouchers actually create more high-quality private school seats at any income level. There is evidence that they subsidize people already able to pay tuition, and that low-quality sham schools open up to get the vouchers. This is all market economics 101. I would much rather see a focus on high quality charters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you make $45,000 and get a $7,000 voucher, what good does it do?

Say your kid is at $13,000/year parochial, a family in that income range would probably be asked to contribute $4,000-6,500 per year after parish/school aid. So, a voucher would make the parochial free for those working-middle class families.

this is a fantasy that assumes that school tuitions are not sensitive to the market. a flood of voucher money might just mean that schools raise tuition or cut aide.

[Anonymous]

The schools will increase their tuition with vouchers, they aren't dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I keep reading "$12,000 in school choice funds to every K-12 student who today lives in poverty."

So only families making less than $25,000 per year will get this, or will it be tiered like other voucher programs? As in, families making $45,000 might get a $7,000 voucher and so forth.

Before everyone gets excited about their middle class free stuff, let me point out that there are 16 million children living below the poverty line. To give them all $12,000 a year would be 192 billion per year. You would have to quadruple the Department of Education budget to do that. Really unlikely to happen. More unlikely that it will reach people making your level of income.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The schools will increase their tuition with vouchers, they aren't dumb.

That sounds a lot like Obamacare ... I mean healthcare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The schools will increase their tuition with vouchers, they aren't dumb.

Yes, just as colleges have raised tuition over the years as students got more federal loans.

[Anonymous]

What will happen, if this ever comes into existence (which is doubtful) is what happened with DC's GOP-forced voucher program. A handful of very talented poor children will be able to use the scholarship to get into existing schools, where the schools will be able to give them financial aid to make up the difference.

At the same time, dozens of "schools" will open, that happen to charge the same amount or slightly higher in tuition as the cost of the voucher. There is no accredation process in DC for these schools, and many of them have 90-100% of their students on vouchers. Making them essentially public schools with no oversight. It's a travesty...school vouchers do not work- studies have proven this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What will happen, if this ever comes into existence (which is doubtful) is what happened with DC's GOP-forced voucher program. A handful of very talented poor children will be able to use the scholarship to get into existing schools, where the schools will be able to give them financial aid to make up the difference.

At the same time, dozens of "schools" will open, that happen to charge the same amount or slightly higher in tuition as the cost of the voucher. There is no accredation process in DC for these schools, and many of them have 90-100% of their students on vouchers. Making them essentially public schools with no oversight. It's a travesty...school vouchers do not work- studies have proven this.

Apparently a family of 4 making up $45,000 is eligible for some voucher money in DC but not the full $12,xxx. Anyone know what the smallest amount you can get in the DC voucher program?

[Anonymous]

Plenty of cheap tiny Christian private schools around the country. This will be a huge windfall for them.

[Anonymous]

I strenuously object to my taxpayer dollars going to religious institutions.