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Would you allow vouchers to be used for private schools?
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After further thought, yes. However, if the school costs more than the voucher the parents would have to make up the difference. Also, the private school, because it was receiving tax money, would be subject to DOE regulations.
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Would you abandon church/state separation and use tax funds to subsidize religiously oriented private schools?
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First, I don't think a voucher promotes any particular religion. But regardless, most religious schools don't follow DOE guidelines and hence would not qualify.
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Would you anticipate spending more money to make vouchers work?
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Don't know.
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Who pays for the extra transportation costs?
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Mom and dad.
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Would schools no longer be locally controlled and voted upon?
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Nope.
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Do you think that vouchers would help inner city youth as a whole?
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I don't see how it could hurt.
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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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Special ed kids would get larger vouchers, just like they get more funding per pupil now. Private schools would be less segregated because poor blacks would have money to attend them (in the form of a voucher). Right now they are FORCED to attend crappy schools. Vouchers offer another option. How in the world is that bad?