GOP-controlled West Virginia enacted a voucher program that allots $4,300 to attend private schools. A Circuit judge enjoined the program, and it is now being argued before the State Supreme Court.
Critics point out that $4,300 is insufficient to pay for any private school, and the money will be used to underwrite the tuition of affluent students. The poor and students with disabilities will be left behind in underfunded public schools.
The vouchers, cynically called HOPE scholarships, violate the state constitution’s promise of a free public education for every child.
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Diane Ravitch's blog 
Tennessee’s “Hope” scholarships are funded by a lottery. Lotteries are played almost exclusively by lower income people. It is a way to fund college that arose after a failed attempt by a republican governor to enact an income tax. Since then, I have watched the kids I taught and knew march across the stage and hear their names called in conjunction with the Hope. They are not the poor. The poor mostly joined the military when they wanted to go to college.
I could not have gone to college today. I would have been too poor.
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and I could never have made my way from home to different colleges to career if my rent costs had not always been low and truly affordable
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Many of the wealthy, mostly on the extreme right (like members of ALEC, the Walmart Walton family, and Bill Gates, after all BG belonged to ALEC once) are greedy, enough is never enough. So they fool people, they cheat people, the steal and lie.
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The purpose of vouchers, charter schools and management organizations, annual standardized testing, Teach for America, extended school years and days, data driven drivel, competency based computerized curricula, and union suppression is to benefit the rich and lay waste to the rest. As was suggested in the comments on the Jon Stewart and Iran post, Eat The Rich.
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Much wealth is not due to hard work, good ideas, or even inheritance. Today’s best way toward greater wealth is to create public policies that either transfer wealth from the poor to the rich or use public resources ostensibly targeted to benefit poorer people that are really designed to allow those who don’t need it to get funds from the public dole. Vouchers are just another con to do the same thing.
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Greg
You make it crystal clear. Thanks.
I’m hoping Ohio voters know OEA’s recommendations for Ohio State Board of Education, District 4- Katie Hoffman, District 10, Tom Jackson, District 2, Teresa Fedor.
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