Not exact matches
The Communities and Local Government Secretary, Eric Pickles, has started a scheme of offering modest rewards - such as shopping
vouchers - for DCLG civil servants who come up with innovative, thrifty ideas that
saves taxpayers»
money.
Those families would have
saved the
taxpayer money by paying their own education bill, but as they are eligible for a
voucher, they can attend the private school at public expense instead.
They
save taxpayers money, because the average
voucher ends up costing less than educating the same student in public school and because the
voucher curbs public - school financial incentives to inflate the special education rolls.
Given that Florida public schools spend close to $ 17,000 per disabled student and that the McKay program contains a roughly representative distribution of disability types,
taxpayers are actually
saving quite a bit of
money with special education
vouchers, and public school districts are certainly not being «financially punished.»
It's also a crock, because
voucher programs actually
save taxpayers money.
If more than 71 percent of
voucher - using students switch from public to private, then
taxpayers save money.
Private school
vouchers do not
save taxpayer money.