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The school choice and 2-parent household official thread

Meh, it’s All about most educated people come out as liberals and they want to change that
 
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Yeah but gas prices.
 
Republicans unaware of how Republicans work.
 
And all the self righteous indignation that a Sunday morning evangelical yelling at clouds can muster.
 
The Utah state legislature is debating a controversial bill that will give teachers pay raises while at the same time establishing a voucher program that gives families $8,000 per child to pay for private schools or other options. Critics say the pay raise is just a cover for diverting large sums of money from public education.

The controversy escalated when a prominent pro-voucher, school choice advocate and lobbyist, Allison Sorenson, was recorded telling a meeting that "I can't say this is a recall of public education. Even though I want to destroy public education, I can’t say that...The legislators can’t say that because they’ll be just reamed over the coals.” Her comments have garnered plenty of criticism even from some Republicans in the state legislature, as well as denials from Republicans that their goal is to end public education in Utah. However, it's not hard to get the sense that their real problem with Sorenson is not that they disagree with her goals, they just don't like that she said the quiet parts out loud.

The bill has passed the Utah House, and is now being debated by the state senate.

 
So the State of Utah spends about $4000 per pupil in public schools, yet they're going to give parents $8000 per child to go to a private or charter school. Not too hard to see what's going on here. Ohio is even more advanced in using vouchers and dubious charter schools, as a recent New Yorker article pointed out: "For Pepper, the state’s transformation has been crushing. He has watched the reputation of Ohio’s public-school system slide as Republicans have siphoned off public funding to support failing, politically connected charter schools. In 2010, Education Week ranked the state’s schooling as the fifth best in the country; in 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked it thirty-first."



New Yorker Article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/state-legislatures-are-torching-democracy
 
Demand for private schools would go through the roof if NC gave $8K per student per year. Where in the world is this money coming from ?
 
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