School Vouchers part 2: For those who support school voucher
It strikes me that the statement,"I am in favor of vouchers", is like saying " I favor health care reform".
The devil is in the details and from what I can see, those of you who say you favor vouchers are not unanimous in your vision. So I would be curious to know if there is a consensus of any kind. Would you allow vouchers to be used for private schools? Would you abandon church/state separation and use tax funds to subsidize religiously oriented private schools? Would you anticipate spending more money to make vouchers work? Who pays for the extra transportation costs? Would schools no longer be locally controlled and voted upon? Do you think that vouchers would help inner city youth as a whole? Who pays for the extra expense of special ed. kids? The feds? the States? Property taxes? My friends in Birmingham, Al. say that the public schools are all underfunded and black, the private schools are all white. Do you believe that vouchers will change that?
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