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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
Yup. But he's the virtuous one. You cannot make that up.
Every once in awhile Scott, they say the quiet part out loud. They want huge numbers of poor people to stay exactly where they are, because the more of them that are in the cities and addicted to welfare, the larger their reliable voting block is.
Choice a - spend $20k per year per student in Hartford public schools, which are failing sh*tholes.
Choice b - spend less than $6k per year to send them to a catholic K-8 school with less than 10 kids per class, and where kids on average perform a full grade level higher than where they are, on standardized tests.
Why is this a difficult choice? Politics. That's it. If you were at all motivated by an actual urge to help these people, that's a ridiculously easy decision.
But unfortunately for those poor people, while school choice will help lift those kids out of poverty, it doesn't help democrats win elections.
The poor people need to form a union. Then the democrats will actually act on their behalf.
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Indiana's school voucher program started in 2011
The data doesn’t match you fantasy Jim school choice is a red herring being presented as a benefit for inner city blacks . But is aimed a sending white kids to religious schools and having the government pay most of the bill ..
But keep saying it’s about poor people
Whites increased from 40 to 60% and blacks declined 24 to 12%.
For a full voucher, worth 90 percent of what a state would spend in a public school, a family of four can earn no more than $45,000 annually, but students whose parents earn up to $67,000 can still qualify for a half-voucher. And for children already in the program, their family income can rise to nearly $90,000 annually.
Yep helping those who need it most
“If the idea behind a voucher program is we’re going to have the money follow the student, if the student didn’t start in a public school, the money isn’t following them from a public school, it’s just appearing from another budget,” Stewart said. “And we’re not exactly sure where that’s coming from.”
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