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

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30. See post #17 below. You are

proposing a duplicate program with ostensibly the same goals as the existing Title I.

Any congressional committee marking up your proposed funding bill would take note of this fact and either reject your bill out of hand (Democrats) or apply it to money already being spent (Republicans).

To argue otherwise is extremely naive given the current debt and deficit. No Democratic administration would support national school vouchers in any way.

School vouchers are the best means to the Republican end of eliminating public schools, replacing them with schools that will be segregated and wiil distort history and science toward Republican political beliefs.

Privatizing schools brings about "consumer sovereignty": children whose parents can afford to supplement tax-funded vouchers with tuition money will get better educations. Children whose parents cannot supplement the voucher will get clearly and openly inferior educations, preparing them for minimum-wage inferior roles in adult society.