OPINION: The Case Against School Vouchers

By National Education Association , Great Public Schools for Every Child - April 08, 2009

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The Educational Case Against Vouchers 1. Student achievement ought to be the driving force behind any education reform initiative. See what research says about the relationship between vouchers and student achievement. 2. Americans want consistent standards for students. Where vouchers are in place -- Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Florida -- a two-tiered system has been set up that holds students in public and private schools to different standards. 3. NEA and its affiliates support ... Read the Full Article
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OPINION: The Case Against School Vouchers
  • Moliminous
    The Case For School Choice

    1. If one checks the student achievement of the poorest of the poor 4th grade Spanish students in Florida, one will find that they have out-scored their counterpart student TOTALS in 13 other states. They have been given a choice.

    2. The consistent standard we all want is educational opportunity and academic achievement. The two-tiered system exists in the union schools where the poor are held hostage to conditions that few of us would wish on our worst enemy.

    3. What is needed to change is competition , challenge and courage, not more money . The government schools have enough of that.

    4. Geographical lotteries are an even more henous fate to force upon the poor. Nothing that has been tried since 1983 has worked to solve that abuse.

    5. As the Zellman decision has told us, if a parent makes a choice, there is no consitutional problem with aiding a student. Get over it.

    6. The "elitist" strategy seems to focus on the 85% of the American families with incomes in excess of $100k having their children attending "free" (but not really)government/union shops. If one looks at the facts, one will see that the vast majority of thos

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    - MoliminousUS April 8, 2009 11:32PM

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