$8000 School Choice Vouchers Being Discussed In Texas

$8k vouchers would nowhere near cover full tuition at a lot of schools discussed.

Parents who send their kids to Episcopal typically save money when sending their kids to college after graduation compared to that tuition.

That will just bring down the standards of the private schools.

Would also be a good way to destroy some good private schools

What I don’t understand about school choice is-wouldn’t there be full schools everyone wanted to go to and empty schools that nobody wanted to go to? I’m neither for or against it, I guess, I just don’t understand how it would work.

Not sure how the numbers on this would work.

Current EBR spend is ~$13k per student.

What % of EBR children are in public vs private?

It seems like the voucher $ would have to be pretty low for the well to not run dry.

Our f*g state Republicans tabled it this past session in Georgia .

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School vouchers are a nice idea in theory but just turn into a grift in reality

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More or less of a grift than public schools getting your money no matter how shitty they are? If public school money followed the kids and forced schools to compete it would actually make the school better. Right now the public schools can continue to be awful and they get that tax money next year no matter what.

I was under the impression that most kids in texas went to public schools?

In New Orleans and BR it would decimate our schools. If you think education is bad now, it would be exponentially worse. I know there’s waste and grift etc but if per student funding decreased by 1/3 - 1/2 I couldn’t imagine how bad it would get. And we would all be complaining about the drastically increasing crime.

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$8k vouchers would nowhere near cover full tuition at a lot of schools discussed

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My kids are $10k a year per student. It’d be helpful even for $20k/year tuition.

I don’t think that it will be that beneficial or a net gain and I’m not necessarily a big fan of how Abbott is handling it, but the arguments on the other side of the coin boil down to “if you stop taking money from people who don’t want to participate and pay for our product by force, then we’ll go under.”

I work with K12 and support public education entirely.

I had two conversations this last month with schools on the border.

One of them was in a brand new technology building easily worth $20mm and they told me they have no money. This is across the parking lot from a $50mm administration building with over 200 administrators. They blamed the state funding and overspending on staff. Went off about vouchers and how that was going to cost them 100s of students and millions of dollars.

The next school district over I met in a modest admin building where they have been in the same building for 30 years. They said it was tight but they hadn’t gone crazy on hiring people (especially admin) and were OK.

He said, “if we’re not offering a product people want, they should be able to use that money how they see fit.”

2 completely different viewpoints on it, just 10 miles apart.