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by nickpsecurity
3283 days ago
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I found the school voucher idea to be the best part of that article. I didn't know the cost was so close for some of those public and private schools: "I have a 17-year-old daughter who went to a private school for a few years before high school. This private school is the best school I've seen in my life. It was judged one of the 100 best schools in America. It was phenomenal. The tuition was $5,500 a year, which is a lot of money for most parents. But the teachers were paid less than public school teachers—so it's not about money at the teacher level. I asked the state treasurer that year what California pays on average to send kids to school, and I believe it was $4,400. While there are not many parents who could come up with $5,500 a year, there are many who could come up with $1,000 a year. If we gave vouchers to parents for $4,400 a year, schools would be starting right and left. People would get out of college and say, "Let's start a school." You could have a track at Stanford within the MBA program on how to be the businessperson of a school. And that MBA would get together with somebody else, and they'd start schools. And you'd have these young, idealistic people starting schools, working for pennies." |
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> If we gave vouchers to parents for $4,400 a year, schools would be starting right and left.
But if the public spends $4,400, that's not what goes to the school, since the total includes state and district oversight that is outside of the school.
This money would not be available to alternative schools unless you are suggesting that they should receive public funds without equal accountability.