Could Federal Educational Vouchers Aimed at the Poor and Useable in Public Schools Work?

[ProgressiveEconomist]

1. In a word, no, except if by 'work'

you mean robbing public schools of resources to give to religious institutions and other "private" entities.

Once a mechanism is put in place to distribute vouchers to fund education, IMO it's impossible to enforce restrictions on who gets them.

Currently, parents who want to prevent their children from going to school with minorities or children of lower socioeconomic status must pay taxes for public education they choose not to use. Vouchers would allow them to supplement the tuition they currently pay with tax dollars stolen from public-school children.

And 80 percent of "private" schools are run by religious institutions. Under your plan, tax dollars would be used to teach children that evolution is heresy and that Jesus was a supply-sider.

The very genesis of school voucher plans was during the desegregation era. Southern school districts closed all their public schools to avoid desegregation, and southern politicians sought to use public funds to run all-white "Christian academies".

IMO you have been drawn into a scam promoted by right-wingers who've tried for 50 years but never have been able to show that "private" schools do a better job of educating children than public schools when the private schools must take the same students as the public schools.