While both serve as options for parents, vouchers send parents
completely out of the public school system and, in many cases, require them to pay tuition balances that vouchers don't cover.
Arne Duncan, Obama's Secretary
of Education, is infamous for his claim that Hurricane Katrina was, «the best thing that happened to the education
system in New Orleans,» because it wiped
out the existing
public school system which allowed it to be replaced with one that is totally privatized,
completely made up
of charter
schools rather than
public schools, and no longer employs teachers who belong to unions.