#Arizona #schoolvoucher expansion: Cost of program grows far above initial projections as enrollment soars.

Promised $33M
Actual $200M+

Another unfunded giveaway to wealthy families and a knife in the belly of #PublicEducation by #DougDucey and #GOP #AZLEG

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona-education/2023/03/20/why-arizona-school-voucher-program-costs-enrollment-are-growing-rapidly/70005903007/

via @azcentral

One more time for the folks in the back, "#Oklahoma overwhelmingly against #SchoolVoucher system". Oklahomans want nice things like a functional basic infrastructure, which includes, among other things, good public schools.

https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/new-poll-shows-oklahomans-overwhelmingly-against-school-vouchers

“Compelling taxpayers to support private interests at the expense of public ones is not only unethical, but unconstitutional when those private interests intertwine w religion.…

“Nevertheless, #Ohio Gov. Mike #DeWine has put forward a budget proposal to expand #schoolvoucher subsidies that would send money to private, for-profit, & religious ventures.”

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/02/02/ohio-cheats-public-schools-and-taxpayers-by-funneling-to-private-schools-without-accountability/

My new Op-Ed on WV's new #SchoolVoucher plan. Remember when #SchoolChoice advocates would claim that their programs didn't harm students? Now they're distracting from clear harm to student learning & arguing for a focus on parent preferences

#FoxNews Yakker Lies About #SchoolVoucher Programs
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/11/kim-strassel-lies-about-who-school-voucher
The talking heads on Fox continue to do their part to try to destroy #publiceducation in America, as Kimberley Strassel demonstrates here.

Curious 🧐 how folks like #schoolvoucher advocates want us to focus only on admin data when it comes to disproving a teacher shortage…..but want us to ignore admin test score data and focus only on parent satisfaction.

If parent voices are relevant to evaluating #schoolchoice outcomes in policy evaluation, then #educators voices are relevant to the #teachershortage debate.