Question...DO you think it proper for tax dollars to follow a child if the child attends a Charter School?
Implicit in your question is the false premise that a voucher is a transfer of funds out of the school tax pool into a voucher.
It's not. A voucher is a tax funded payment to parents above and beyond the collected school tax revenue.
Ahh once again a liberal unable to answer a question decides it is not the question to be asked.
You want me to ask the questions YOU want to answer.
Sorry Charlie...It doesn't work that way.
You obviously do not know how Charter School funding works..
Every property owner pays their school taxes. However, for each child that attends a Charter School, the local public district "loses" that money to the Charter School.
A voucher in turn does the same thing. The taxes are still paid to the local taxing authority. The government entity whether it is local state or federal issues a voucher to the parents of a child attending a school other than the local public school.
It's a partial wash for the parent depending on the amount of the voucher or credit. The local school district still gets it's money. The parents of the children attending school elsewhere receive the relief.
Charter Schools have become quite the bone of contention among supporters of the captive govco schools. The teachers unions hate any move to allow parents and students school choice.
It's time we took a long hard look at the captive market that is the public school system.
At one time public schools were paces of learning, achievement and development of character. Now public schools are places of social engineering and indoctrination to the liberal agenda where achievement and success are countermanded by theories such as outcome based education ( Johnny gets a A because while he performed poorly but tried real hard) English is now "language arts" History is now "social studies". All this politically correct nonsense has transformed our public schools into glorified baby sitting institutions.
