Vouchers are a zombie idea. They don’t help poor kids. The kids who use them fall farther behind in school.
Voters have turned them down again and again, as happened yesterday in Arizona.
Laurie Roberts of the Arizona Republic tells the story here about how vouchers became roadkill at the ballot box.
“Gov. Doug Ducey may have gotten a second term but he also took a powerful punch to the gut as his plan for a massive expansion of school vouchers was killed.
“Arizona voters didn’t just defeat Proposition 305. They stoned the thing, then they tossed it into the street and ran over it.
“Then they backed up and ran over it again.
“Voters defeated Ducey’s voucher plan by more than 2-1.
“Ouch.”
She goes on to warn that the pro-voucher billionaires are not finished. They are not swayed by the popular vote. They will be back.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Ten years ago when people said “charters are just a back door to vouchers” all of ed reform vehemently denied that was the plan.
Ten years later they all back vouchers and they spend most of their time and energy promoting public subsidies to private schools.
It was always about privatization. Always. Of course they’ll be back with another expansion. It was the goal 30 years ago and it’s still the goal. Public schools are just an inconvenient roadblock to the ideological objective, which is why public schools are so rarely mentioned in ed reform circles other than as high volume buyers of ed tech product and services. They don’t want to improve our schools. They want to eradicate them.
Listen, and understand. That Devostator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until Public Education is dead.
I’m surprised the California superintendent of public instruction election is so close.
Tuck had every ed reform billionaire, every high profile and well-connected national ed reform lobbyist and gobs of billionaire bucks. He should be trouncing the opposition.
The Netflix, Facebook, Wal Mart candidate should win in a landslide, just with the marketing power of those three brands.
His website is like a compilation of soothing and meaningless advertising slogans- it’s eerie- like they created him in product development.
Great line.
Actually, the Zombies are Trump’s hard core followers.