School vouchers in Virginia?

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Anonymous wrote:Charter Schools: https://doe.virginia.gov/instruction/charter_schools/charter_schools.shtml

For the 2022-23 school year, there are 143 magnet public schools serving 153,580 students in Virginia.

We also have specialty schools.

Vouchers? Not likely in VA, but I'm sure Youngkin will try.

A voucher in Fairfax or Arlington is just a tax break for a family already sending their kid to private. I don't see it ever happening here.

You are incorrect.
Youngkin is already in talks with Betsey Devos. The only reason he has not tried this is L Louise Lucas.

If Republicans take charge of Virginia after mid terms or in 2024 Virginia schools will now be Alabama, Missouri, and Mississippi basically crap that you get to pay for and drive farther to.

Youngkin is term limited and there is no way you could accomplish that kind of transformation in two years

And he is enormously unpopular so the odds of another Republican being elected governor after him are slim.

The odds of Youngkin being elected were slim in the first place. Democrats might yet find a way to screw it up. In any case, vouchers have been on the agenda forever, as well as charters. It's almost impossible that they won't eventually find their way in, as the industry, particularly for charters, has grown exponentially over the past few years, as more and more districts went that way. The strangest thing is both vouchers and charters have largely been complete failures and haven't done anything to improve education, and yet they continue to spread.

Wrong.

They’ve both been highly successful.

It’s the regular public schools that are epic failures, especially in solid blue cities.

Lies.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think Virginia really has much of an appetite for schools vouchers. Outside of urban areas such as NOVA and Richmond, the population density doesn’t support private schools. In addition, I don’t think there is much demand for religious schools such as catholic schools. Virginia is historically Protestant, with only about 10 percent of the population Catholic.

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Anonymous wrote:But nice try, to all those lying about this issue.

Fact is: Democrats support vouchers.

No they don't. Not as a party platform. If you look at the entire country and what's happening with school choice in general, it's much more a GOP ticket item, although in some instances democrats and even blue areas have embraced one or the other. I don't think it's really limited to partisan politics, especially since there are so many variations on the theme, in so many places. But in general democrats are more likely to oppose forms of school choice that take money from public education and bypass teacher unions or enrich private companies, and republicans are more likely to support. Remember Devos?

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Anonymous wrote:But nice try, to all those lying about this issue.

Fact is: Democrats support vouchers.

No they don't. Not as a party platform. If you look at the entire country and what's happening with school choice in general, it's much more a GOP ticket item, although in some instances democrats and even blue areas have embraced one or the other. I don't think it's really limited to partisan politics, especially since there are so many variations on the theme, in so many places. But in general democrats are more likely to oppose forms of school choice that take money from public education and bypass teacher unions or enrich private companies, and republicans are more likely to support. Remember Devos?

Democrat voters support vouchers:

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-08-23/surprise-democrats-also-support-school-vouchers

The party is just whoring for union $$.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:But nice try, to all those lying about this issue.

Fact is: Democrats support vouchers.

No they don't. Not as a party platform. If you look at the entire country and what's happening with school choice in general, it's much more a GOP ticket item, although in some instances democrats and even blue areas have embraced one or the other. I don't think it's really limited to partisan politics, especially since there are so many variations on the theme, in so many places. But in general democrats are more likely to oppose forms of school choice that take money from public education and bypass teacher unions or enrich private companies, and republicans are more likely to support. Remember Devos?

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Lame attempts to gaslight.