To be eligible to receive a school voucher, students must live in a household with an income that does not exceed the threshold to qualify for the federal Free and Reduced-price Lunch program. For a family of four, that income limit is $43,568. The voucher program purports to be a lifeline for families not being adequately served. However, very few children in struggling school systems would be able to use these vouchers to actually afford a private school education... ...Religious affiliation has been a sticking point for the proposal. Like New City, more than two-thirds of North Carolina’s private schools are religious. In Buncombe County, 17 of 30 private schools have religious affiliations. The vision of New City is to provide an education that is Christ-centered and academically rigorous... ... the question is not should low-income parents be allowed to send their children to private or religious schools with taxpayer money, Board member Chip Craig said. Many private and religious schools offer financial aid that is more than the vouchers would be. The real question is should taxpayer money be used to fund private and religious schools who discriminate in whom they service? The shift to a push for vouchers is not naturally happening; it is being orchestrated by foundations with a for-profit agenda, Buys said. The Walton Family Foundation along with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have quietly set their sights on privatizing education. citizen-times/story/news/local/2014/04/21/school-vouchers-helping-students-hurting-schools/7984683/
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:19:05 +0000
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