Statewide vouchers have shown significant academic declines comparable to the impact of COVID-19 or Hurricane Katrina on student learning, according to @joshcowenMSU. In Arizona, vouchers are exceeding budget by 1000%. Vouchers are criticized as defunding public schools and favoring right-wing politics. They are likened to predatory lending, limiting true school choice, as schools select families. Arizona's Board of Education faces backlash for allowing 'extravagant' voucher spending.
A 558-word @TexasTribune @The74 article conjures the word 'voucher' 17 times to describe a familiar proposal to offer TX families education savings accounts (ESAs), a term it completely neglects. Is this journalism lazy? sloppy? ignorant? malicious? https://t.co/pJfrIBB6tB
Arizona Board of Education rejects school voucher ban on luxury items, other changes https://t.co/N3jBEUpLek via @azcentral
Optimal educational freedom policy for Texas and other states to get universal ESAs and lower property taxes, as long as government will be involved in schooling. For Texas (scale as necessary elsewhere): - Funding (New ESA school finance system) • $10K+ in ESA to parents… https://t.co/nxOvT6fwPO
Commentary: School vouchers are government handouts at their worst https://t.co/FfCeimc7jJ
Arizona Board of Education rejects rules barring 'extravagant' purchases with school voucher money. Republicans say #ESA law doesn't restrict spending. https://t.co/QY4jpjFcd5
From @joshcowenMSU: When it comes to vouchers, it’s not really school choice at all. Families don’t get their choice of schools; instead, schools get their choice of which families to admit. https://t.co/hcg6WMVuQt via @phillyinquirer #SchoolChoiceScam
In Arizona vouchers are costing taxpayers....1000% more than was budgeted for.....ONE THOUSAND!!! https://t.co/0s3ox3aWCT
"Statewide vouchers have led to some of the largest academic declines in the history of education research — drops in performance that were on par with how COVID-19 or Hurricane Katrina affected student learning." From @joshcowenMSU https://t.co/W8HU79XHFq
Vouchers are education’s version of predatory lending. They defund public schools and are almost entirely a product of today’s Right-wing politics. My latest is up @PhillyInquirer https://t.co/DS1cZCyPGi https://t.co/yQO370hMwN