 breaking story about three teenage boys Darnell, Kieran and Anthony. They make music together, play on the school teams together and are failing together. They're tight friends until Rochelle and Angel come a along, challenging everything they thought they knew about each other and themselves. What you see isn't always what you get in this surprising coming of age drama.
Suitable for 13+ and adult audiences.
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Daniel Luzer, the news editor of Governing magazine, reviews Arizona’s voucher program, enacted almost 20 years ago.
Competition was supposed to be a game-changer. Advocates said it would cost the state only $4.5 million a year and would lift the performance of minority students.
None of that was true.
The program now costs $140 million a year, and there has been little change in test scores for minorities.
It was a giveaway to the wealthy, who managed to save money on their taxes.
Luzer writes in Washington Monthly:
Over the 20 years the state’s education performance has gotten a little better, but that’s also occurred in pretty much every state in the country. The state has seen no significant improvements, either for students in general or ethnic minorities, as a result of the private school fund.
Another problem is that this fund is a way to avoid taxes. People or businesses can take care of their tax budgets by just dropping some money in the education slush fund. And that deprives the state of money it needs to operate.
In fiscal 2014, the most recent year available, Arizonans claimed $84 million in individual tax credits. Corporations claimed another $39 million.
But that’s a whole lot of money that they’re not paying for other things, funds Arizona needs to operate other programs.…. The corporate tax credit for “low income” families has a more-generous definition — a family of four can earn as much as $82,996.
That’s because private school enrollment in the state is actually going down, and public school enrollment is increasing.
And meanwhile almost 70 percent of that fund is used to send the children of reasonably affluent people to “a school of their choice,” even though many of them could just afford the tuition on their own.
Not exactly a data-driven program.
Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.
Diane, am I correct in that these vouchers do not fully pay for a child to attend school for an entire year? They are merely partial subsidies?
If so, that program is unfair. I’ll call them out on that one. While I believe in “free to choose”, the poor kids can’t take advantage of the subsidies if they have to foot the rest of the bill. I would not support that. It’s either a full voucher or nothing to be fair.
The vouchers cover tuition at religious schools, with are generally low. They do not meet the cost of tuition at most private schools.
Do the vouchers cover the per pupil cost that Arizona spends on public education? If so, it’s going to be legal.
But if the vouchers are less than per pupil spending and only cover what a parochial school charges, I doubt that law will stand up in court. I can’t imagine that basing a voucher on parochial school tuition will stand up.
I believe folks should be “free to choose”. However, funding vouchers at 70% (e.g.) of actual costs is really just a handout to the upper/middle classes. Those policies are selfish and give those of us who genuinely support reform a bad name. The vouchers should provide per pupil spending by AZ or be able to fully fund a wide variety of alternative school choices. Absent that, these policies are not in the interest of all kids.
Brien,
“... give those of us who genuinely support reform a bad name.”
What do you consider as “genuinely supporting reform” to mean? What exactly do you “genuinely support” versus what ‘reforms’ you don’t “genuinely support”?
Duane, I do not support:
1) Classifying teachers or schools by achievement scores alone. When someone says a school is failing because of average scores (not growth scores but achievement scores), that is a false picture. Growth is the key driver of effectiveness because it eliminates the SES of the kids.
2) Providing the per pupil funds when a charter (or other) school doesn’t enroll the more challenging kids. It appears PA has done a good job of allocating costs. Let’s say they spend $12K/kid on average. But gen ed kids cost $10K, ELL cost $15K and sped cost $40K. If you only give a charter $10K for each gen ed kid, that’s fine. If you give them $40K for the sped kid, that’s fine. If you give them $12K for a gen ed kid, that’s too much and is why so many on here complain of them pushing ELL/SPED out. If you give them what it costs and see how they perform, it’s fair.
3) I don’t support financial shenanigans to prevent transparency and rob taxpayers and students of funds. This debacle in Ohio by Imagine owner Dennis Bakke (the boss of my local SB chairman) is outrageous.
4) I don’t support “teaching to the test”. I support having curriculum that matches standards and the test so in that sense, you teach what’s on the test. But teachers shouldn’t have to (and need not) test prep since teaching concepts will result in good test scores.
5) Being dishonest in any way. It appears Ohio inflated grades of charters. That is unacceptable. It’s likely fraud and the people involved should go to jail. Note that Virginia did similar things with its ESEA waivers. They “assured” Arne certain things had been done when they knew they hadn’t (testified to that effect in court). In fact, VDOE told districts they needn’t comply with the ESEA requirements.
6) Lowering salaries for the sake of lowering salaries. Effective teachers should be paid well. They should be told what their total compensation is and allowed to receive promotions (to higher pay not admin positions). As inflation rises, so should teacher pay. Yet teachers should not get automatic raises just for having