Parents cast their votes in voucher debate
Chris Rickert:
Jim Bender, of the pro-voucher group School Choice Wisconsin, said there are a range of legitimate reasons parents choose voucher-funded private schools, but that the rising number of voucher students proves parents want that choice.
That's probably what you'd expect to hear from a leader in what voucher critics see as a national effort to privatize -- and profit from -- education.
Of course, what you hear from Democratic lawmakers and a DPI run by a Democratically leaning state superintendent -- who rely for political support on teachers unions -- is about what you'd expect to hear from those with a vested interest in public schools' hegemony.
Vouchers might be one of those childhood-related policy debates that has less to do with what children need than with what lawmakers and their special interests want.
And if what children need is to be ignored, the next best thing might be to pay a little more attention to what parents say their children need.
Much
more on vouchers, here.
Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 28, 2013 1:34 AM
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