The school voucher tax drain is on, and you won't believe who's snagging the money

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Nearly 6,500 Arizona families have rushed to apply for a school voucher, hoping to snag an estimated $45 million in public funding.

Of those 6,500 famiies, the state Department of Education reports that three-quarters of them don’t now have a child in Arizona’s public schools.

Note that these aren’t people who are fleeing the “failing” public schools, as supporters would like you to believe.

These aren’t poor and minority students who were “stuck” in public schools, as we have been repeatedly told. These are largely people whose kids already are in private schools or being homeschooled.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/school-voucher-tax-drain-wont-192725776.html

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. The radicalized Republican party must kill education in order to push their agenda.

Republicans' war on education is the most crucial part of their push for fascism - Salon.com

[Dave in VA]

2. quelle surprise!

This has been the plan all along. As a retired educator, I have said for decades that there are billions of dollars to be made off of this very system. A back door way to get public money into the religious and for profit schools.

quelle surprise, non, pas une surprise.

[rubbersole]

3. Yep...

[dsc]

4. Well duh

the amount of the vouchers is nearly always only a fraction of the tuition meaning that those who are too poor to pay for private school still won't be able to afford it. This is nothing but a wealth transfer from the general public to religious bigots.

[Hotler]

5. Deadbeats sucking at the teat of the tax payer. For wanting less gubment they sure hold their hand

out a lot.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. I chose to send my children to a private secular school

for reasons very specific to my children.

I was grateful that affluent grandparents made it possible.

More than once I had a conversation with another parent of a student there who would complain bitterly about paying public school taxes. I ALWAYS said that OF COURSE we should all be paying public school taxes.

The truth is that even if you have twenty children, there will be a time before and after you have children in public school, and public schools absolutely need to be paid for by all of us.