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School vouchers - "Taft is proposing a $9 million program that would allow students at 70 elementary and middle schools around Ohio receive vouchers to transfer to private schools. Most of the eligible schools are in the state's eight largest school districts. Options other than traditional public schools, such as the voucher program and charter schools, are popular with Republicans. Democrats say the program undermines support for public education and drains needed resources from traditional schools."
posted by jr to education at 10:12 P.M. EST     (3 Comments)

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"Gov. Bob Taft said he wants to use state tax dollars to help children leave their public schools - including six in Toledo - and jump to private schools because he's impatient with failing public schools where students who can learn are "trapped." "

"City Schools That Would Be Affected
School, Designation, 2004-2005 opening day enrollment*
• Cherry, Elementary Academic Watch, 286
• Glenwood Elementary, Continuous Improvement, 300
• Hale Elementary, Academic Watch, 416
• Lagrange Elementary, Continuous Improvement, 183
• Pickett Elementary, Academic Watch, 343
• Warren Elementary, Academic Emergency, 161"

Schools affected? Nice spin. How about students with a chance?

"Parents of students at the six elementary schools in Toledo welcomed the plan."
posted by jr at 01:45 A.M. EST on Sun Feb 13, 2005     #

School vouchers may seem like a good thing, but it is important to remember that you often end up at a very different place than where you start off. What will probably happen is that once the private schools are receiving enough of their revenue from the state that they can’t do with out it anymore, the state will put all kinds of strings on the money. The effect of this will be that the state will be mismanaging the private schools just as bad, if not worse than what TPS does with the public ones.

As it is right now, parents do have a choice to send their children to private schools, it is just that many don’t have the means to afford it. While this is unfortunate, school vouchers could end up leaving parents with no choice at all.
posted by mike2004 at 07:28 A.M. EST on Sun Feb 13, 2005     #

School vouchers are a great idea! Soon, the parents, the students, and the money will weed out the worst schools and promote the best.

Instead of 70 schools, why not 700?

Just like a bus load of lawyers going over a cliff, it's a good start!
posted by Hooda_Thunkit at 07:19 P.M. EST on Fri Feb 18, 2005     #

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