Truth be told, under the so called free market approach, places that have established lifting the cap and income levels of students to attend private schools with public money have actually increased cost (as much as double if not more in some places) because not only are people paying for children who would attend a public school, but also for students who want to attend a private school setting. Sadly, this expensive experiment hasn't produced better outcomes---just more money. If people are okay with that so be it. As long as they aren't lying to themselves thinking that it has solved any real problems.
Advocates for vouchers often point to cost savings and private school quality to justify the use of tax dollars for private school tuition, but the cost for Indiana taxpayers has risen from $36 million last year to a whopping $81 million this year.
Vouchers a distraction from public education needs
Tuition vouchers are estimated to cost $100 million in the first year and $250 million in the second year. By the third year, with an anticipated annual cost of $1 billion or more, the voucher program is expected to further expand its student eligibility; no school district will be immune to the cost of vouchers.
School vouchers are too expensive | PennLive.com
The cost to taxpayers for the first year’s 2,000 vouchers is $8.5 million. But by the time this year’s kindergartners are high school seniors, as many as 26,000 students will be getting income-based vouchers worth over $110 million. Those numbers will be even higher if legislators boost the number or worth of the vouchers in coming years. The cost to taxpayers for the first year’s 2,000 vouchers is $8.5 million. But by the time this year’s kindergartners are high school seniors, as many as 26,000 students will be getting income-based vouchers worth over $110 million. Those numbers will be even higher if legislators boost the number or worth of the vouchers in coming years.
School voucher programs expand, giving Ohio more programs than any other state | cleveland.com
Student outcome- Overall, the study demonstrates that demographic differences between
students in public and private schools more than account for the relatively high raw scores of
private schools. Indeed, after controlling for these differences, the presumably advantageous
“private school effect” disappears, and even reverses in most cases.
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