Indiana: Vouchers Expanded to Almost All Students

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1. Bob Shepherd says:

   July 28, 2023 at 9:18 am

   Indiana votes to end public schooling, send all kids to fundamentalist Christian madrasas.

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2. Yvonne says:

   July 28, 2023 at 10:47 am

   Indiana will be sorry.

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   • Linda says:

     July 28, 2023 at 1:54 pm

     Research found some parishes generate more money from education vouchers than from the collection plates. Indiana Catholics won’t be sorry.

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3. retired teacher says:

   July 28, 2023 at 11:00 am

   Indiana will feel the financial pinch of such reckless policy. Taxpayers will be compelled to pay for religious schools that discriminate, segregate and divert funds from public schools. Since the US has no state religion, tax dollars should not flow to unaccountable religious entities while simultaneously diminishing the opportunities to students in public schools. Now that vouchers are spreading like the plague, a number of private companies are eager to step into the middle to extract fees from public funds in the same way that CMOs appeared to ‘administer’ funds to the private entities. Taxpayers and public schools will be forced to pay for this latest opportunistic scam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh_w6y1pv9g&t=333s

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4. ArtsSmart says:

   July 28, 2023 at 12:58 pm

   “It’s estimated that the average per-pupil award this year will be around $6,225”. Is that the total amount each student gets for a school year?

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   • bethree5 says:

     July 28, 2023 at 7:35 pm

     No, their average per pupil spending = $10,256. This would be the state portion of that.

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5. April says:

   July 29, 2023 at 4:26 am

   In my district in Washington state, the public students get nearly $16,000 and charters far less. It is up to the parents if they like the one charter school (2-3 grades) to keep them there. Of course, they do not have a lot of the cool stuff the public schools get–computers, musical instruments, medical services etc. We have seen 750 students leave public schools (leaving a huge financial deficit) for the one charter (we do not have vouchers) and a myriad of religious schools, home schools, state public internet school and one classical (pretty expensive). The public-school test results were very bad after COVID. The other schools did better because they did not adhere to the stricter lock downs imposed by Gov Insley’s radical mandates. We really need to get a better head of the OSPI and give parents more control in their school districts.

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