Tennessee is the latest state considering vouchers, euphemistically calling them “opportunity scholarships.” The Senate Education Committee passed them. They will be considered by the House on Tuesday.
Why not be honest and call them what they are: vouchers. If the experience of other states is a guide, low-income students will have the “opportunity” to attend religious schools that have a meager curriculum and uncertified teachers, and students will learn creationism. The students will likely have lower test scores than their peers in the schools they left.
Funding is up to the districts, which are mandated to participate.
What a waste of children’s lives and taxpayer dollars.
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Waste of taxpayer dollars but OH, so much money for the corporate CEOs. That is the bottom line, not the lives of people.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,. Where wealth accumulates, and men decay:
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This is the way of the world in Tennessee. Tennessee has rejected the Common Core Standards, adopting instead the Tennessee State Standards which differ not at all. Apparently they are avoiding contentious debate through the simple act of renaming.
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TN is becoming edu-privatizers utopia. Gov Haslam pretends to be moderate but cows to the mean spirited, anti-intellectual Lt. Gov & tea party lege. who hold their constituents in contempt.
Haslam is exemplary of an incompetent son of a billionaire whose family $ buys him high political office.
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Well said jcgrim.
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