Betsy DeVos and Vouchers - Yes!!!
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Anonymous
Information from the link states, "They and their elected representatives will have a say, too." What elected representatives in Dc have a say if a Republican Congress feels otherwise? See http://www.aft.org/news/house-moves-impose-bush-era-voucher-program-dc |
Anonymous
I know it was a rhetorical question but it doesn't help anyone and never has.
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Anonymous
That's federal money. The federal government currently funds approximately 10% of school budgets. That money is generally provided through categorical funding grants, i.e. Title 1 (funding for schools with high number of children living in poverty) and Title 3 (ESL funding). If they would like to move around those pots of money, they can but they can't dictate how states and local governments spend their money. |
Anonymous
Multiply it by 100 to provide real choice to parents. |
Anonymous
Not going to happen unless the federal government chooses to pony up some serious cash to fund it. |
Anonymous
Most charters are smoke and mirrors. Our roads are in a near constant state of disrepair. But it wouldn't help to privatize 16th street. It would just mean higher costs, less accountability, and more profit for whoever runs it. |
Anonymous
If you multiplied the voucher $$ by 100 and gave it to public schools, they'd be great too. But I don't think that as a country we value our kids to the tune of $1M per student per year. If we did that, we'd have to give up our overgrown military... |
Anonymous
They go to parochial schools that cost less than $10,000, many of which are Blue Ribbon schools where kids learn a great deal in a safe environment. What's wrong with that? PP, you sound like a DCPS troll. |
Anonymous
Then why are you trolling on a public school sight? You might just be a sock puppet. |
Anonymous
Some go to halfway decent parochial schools but a vast majority go to schools you've likely never heard of- schools that are almost entirely voucher-funded. I'm not a DCPS troll; I work in social services and part of my job is advising families on school options. Before I took this job I thought the voucher program was a good option to provide more choices to poor families but after working with families for many years I am firmly against it. I've visited many of the schools my families' children attend- families sometimes think private school must be better than public school- and the staff who support the voucher program help with this misconception. I would never send my child to many of these schools. I've also worked at DCPS schools and charters- some great, some terrible. I really don't have a dog in this fight except to say that there is no evidence at all that a school voucher program will work in DC. If you saw some of these schools, you couldn't help but agree with me. |
Anonymous
| The bottom line is that there is no silver bullet when it comes to student achievement in the US. |
Anonymous
#draintheswamp |
Anonymous
Really? Can you name some since folks on here will be needing to enroll their kids. |
Anonymous
Most cliche phrase ever used about education. |