Stuart Egan writes that members of the General Assembly seek adjustments to the state’s voucher program to make it even less transparent and less accountable than at present.
The General Assembly has committed to spend nearly $1 billion on this program by 2026-2027 even though the schools that get the vouchers have no standards for academics or for teacher qualifications.
93% of the voucher schools are sectarian.
In 2018, a study hailed academic gains but critics (including the editorial board of the state’sleading newspaper) quickly pointed out that the study oversampled established Catholic schools, which are a small fraction of the voucher schools. A review of the NC study by the National Education Policy Center found it to be so methodologically flawed as to be useless.
Ever since the Tea Party fringe of the Republican Party took control of the General Assembly, its leaders have been determined to shift funding to charter schools and vouchers for religious schools.
As in Florida, the politicians believe in tough scrutiny of public schools and no scrutiny at all for voucher schools.
YAKS (Yet Another Kickback Scheme)
Reblogged this on caffeinated rage and commented:
Thanks to Dr. Ravitch.
The Secretary of the US Department of Education admits she has no plans to serve public schools, or public school students:
“This is why I was disappointed when DeVos was asked how she would fix public schools, and all she had to offer was, to paraphrase, “competition from choice.”
Got that? All ed reform offers public school families is charters or vouchers, although 90% of students attend the public schools they either openly disdain or neglect.
This is apparently what we’re paying them for- a firm commitment to not lift a finger on behalf of any public school student, anywhere.
In return for their refusal top serve 90% of students, can we at least request they stay out of our schools and not “fix” them? There should be some upside to paying these people. Can we pay them to stay away? That way public school students will at least break even, and not be actively harmed.
https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/secretary-school-choice
Isn’t the largest recipient of voucher dollars in NC the Greensboro Islamic Academy?
interesting
Over 90% of vouchers kn NC are used in religious affiliated schools.
https://truthout.org/articles/if-classrooms-are-free-of-politics-the-right-wing-will-grow/
The reason for the Common Gore and Testing, plus online everything…TOTAL CONTROL.