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Voucher issue up to voters? Most Utahns say they'd sign referendum petition
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After listening to the latest ads against the vouchers, I am apalled at the mean spirited half-truths listed by both sides.
Voting against vouchers simply locks lower income children into the public school system which maybe failing them. where children from more affluent families will continue to utilize private school education. The real losers are families who cannot afford private school. It really is all about the money.
Schools in a competitive environment, multiple schools competing for students and their associated funding, would create incentive to fix these problems (offer competitive teacher pay, offer a better set of teachers to prospective students, etc). Also, it takes the edge off of expelling students to have other schools to fall back on, allowing the school greater ability to keep order on their grounds.
Students can drop bad schools and schools can drop bad students. The learning environment is thus improved.
(The ideal system would include private schools with tuition equal to or less than the maximum voucher payout, $3,000 in this case. Essentially, that's a free private school.)