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“Hammond Vouchers”
will end government’s monopoly over education
Chuck
Muth
June
11, 2015
About
the only thing Republicans did right in the 2015 legislative session was to
place a stake squarely over the heart of Nevada’s failure factories and took
the first big whack at the public school monopoly that has been killing the futures
of so many of our children for so many years.
Officially,
they’re called “Education Savings Accounts” (ESAs), because the teachers union
has been so successful in equating the word “voucher” with some kind of deadly,
incurable disease. But a rose by any
other name…
The
bottom line is that parents will now have both the right and the financial
ability to choose to send their kids to a non-government school rather than the
union-operated/government-
Which
means low- and middle-income families will finally have the same ability to
choose a non-government education provider that wealthy families have always
enjoyed.
Which
means parents will finally have the same right to choose their kid’s teacher
just as they have the right to choose their kid’s doctor or dentist – as well
as the financial means to exercise that right.
Which
means low- and middle-income parents will finally have the same right to choose
their kid’s school just as they have the right to choose their family’s grocery
store – as well as the financial means to exercise that right in much the same
way many families currently do with food stamps.
Which
means low- and middle-income parents will finally have the same right to choose
their kid’s school just as they have the right to choose their family’s house
or apartment – as well as the financial means to exercise that right in much
the same way many families do with housing vouchers.
In
the past, legislators created “Empowerment Schools.”
This
year they created “Empowerment Parents.”
Universal
vouchers are the one school reform that’s never been tried. It’s also the one school reform that actually
has a chance to fix public education. Not
public schools. Public education. There’s a difference. A HUGE difference.
The
ESA bill was championed by Nevada State Sen. Scott Hammond, but the true
driving force behind their creation was the conservative Nevada Policy Research
Institute, which has been providing the intellectual ammunition in favor of
this dramatic reform opportunity for years.
A
hearty “high five” to both!
Of
course, Republicans never blow an opportunity to blow an opportunity. As such, they blew this one by prohibiting
homeschoolers and families who have already made the sacrifice of paying for a
private school education from receiving the “Hammond Vouchers.”
But
overall this was, in fact, a win. And a
big one. It’s now time to nail the
government education monopoly’s coffin shut before the blood-sucking teachers
union can revive the corpse.
# # #
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