This change to 529 savings accounts immediately benefit wealthy families who
already send their children to private schools, but now they will be able to offset their tuition that they already intended to pay for, but now can receive a tax credit for it.
«It's clear to me that this is a politically motivated system that will provide a tax break to families who would have
sent their children to private schools anyway,» said Kevin Brady, Assistant Professor in the Leadership, Policy and Adult and Higher Education (LPAHE) Department at NC State University.
The common refrain from voucher supporters about the lack of accountability is that parents themselves are the accountability system, that they wo
n't send their children to private schools that don't provide a quality education.
None of the other leading candidates from either party who have children made the decision to send them to public school: Bill Thompson sent his daughter to private school and his step - children are in boarding school, while Republicans Joe Lhota and John
Catsimatidis sent their children to private schools.
Fully 58 percent of parents with children in underperforming schools said that they would
rather send their child to a private school than their current public school (see Figure 2), compared with 39 percent of parents with children in schools that made adequate progress.
We send our son to a local private school and agree with Wednesday's State Journal editorial, «Don't splurge on vouchers,» that people in middle to higher income brackets who
send their children to private schools don't need vouchers.
Rep. Paul «Skip» Stam has long supported school vouchers and successfully co-sponsored legislation that would put 10 million taxpayer dollars into the hands of families wishing to
send their children to private schools instead of public ones, beginning this fall.
Why do so many educational policy makers who can afford it, such as former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan,
send their children to private schools while at the same time doubling down on the one - size - fits - all mandates for «other people's children?»
By 2014, states will be spending $ 1 billion a year to
send children to private schools through vouchers, tax credits and similar programs, according to Robert C. Enlow, president of the Friedman Foundation, an advocacy group for school choice.
(He indicated in the book that the public schools in England were intended for the children of families that «were on the dole» and that any families with any middle class
aspirations sent their children to private schools, often run by charlatans, without regard to the quality of the educational program offered).
We did not have the option of evaluating what teachers actually do, as the geniuses in Albany and DC, many of
whom send their children to private schools where this nonsense does not apply, appear to have determined that teachers teach tests rather than students.