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Would you allow vouchers to be used for private schools?
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Yes.
Under the voucher system, ALL schools are private schools. There are no distinctions. You get X amount of dollars from the voucher to use toward the school of your choice. Most schools available will probably charge the same or less than the voucher. If you want to send your kid to a more expensive school, you simply pay the difference.
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Would you abandon church/state separation and use tax funds to subsidize religiously oriented private schools?
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Yes.
Because it is no longer public. Dont want your kid being taught that evil Bible stuff? Yank him out and send him to the secular school down the street.
The only reason the separation of church and state is an issue now, is because everyone is forced to use the same school. So you have to cater to the lower common denominator where offense is concerned. With private schools that is no longer an issue. You can pick whatever school you are comfortable with.
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Would you anticipate spending more money to make vouchers work?
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No.
I anticipate LESS, not more.
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Who pays for the extra transportation costs?
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It is included in the voucher.
It works the exact same way as public school does now. Funding for education includes stuff like bus transport. An equal portion will be divided into the vouchers, along with everything else.
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Would schools no longer be locally controlled and voted upon?
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You now vote with your feet. Dont like the school's policies? Take your business elsewhere.
Greed will motivate the schools to do what the Parents want them to do. Greed is a more reliable form of control than beaurocracy IMO.
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Do you think that vouchers would help inner city youth as a whole?
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Yes.
They will now have choices...Parents can opt to send them to special schools that cater to their needs. If there is money to be made, the niche will be filled. There are a lot of troubled kids. Obviously, lots of companies will want to capitalize on that. Inner City kids will get the exact same funds as the Suburban kids.
Choice is good.
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Who pays for the extra expense of special ed. kids?
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The same people that have always paid for it: Tax Payers.
Special Ed kids could stay in publically funded schools if they want, receiving disproportionate funding because of their needs. That is the way it already is now. Nothing will change.
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My friends in Birmingham, Al. say that the public schools are all underfunded and black, the private schools are all white.
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Then your freinds should
love the voucher program. Color is now irrelevant. All that matters is what City or County you are in.
All schools are private, be they black or white.