GATOR scholarship bill successfully gets through LA subcommittee

Is this a “whitey bad” thing disguised as something else?

Does anyone else get annoyed by the cutesy acronyms politicians name bills?



And that’s the purpose of a 529.

Is it like a state funded 529?

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And that’s the purpose of a 529.

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Um. this is a voucher program.
Not an education savings account thingy like a 529.

Our taxes are funding these '529s'.

Attention all:

This is a voucher program FOR KIDS

In other words, what all conservatives have wanted for decades

My god there are some dolts on this site

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In other words, what all conservatives have wanted for decades My god there are some dolts on this site

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1. There is no context to the flyer. Some of us don't live and breathe by government reforms.

2. "Educational accounts" are not vouchers.

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In other words, what all conservatives have wanted for decades

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Not this conservative. Free shite is free shite regardless who gets it.

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There is no context to the flyer. Some of us don't live and breathe by government reforms.

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That’s fine. But “well some of us have better things to do” is a weird as hell stance to take after being the most active person in the thread up to that point.

You do know you don’t have to talk about it right?

My understanding is that this merely changes where the money goes. The current system is that public school x gets y amount of money based on the amount of kids who go to the school. The funding is guaranteed

The GATOR system switches the funding. The money follows the student, not the school. It isn’t adding any new funds into the system, it is just changing who gets the funds.

The best analogy is EBT. Imagine if Louisiana had a food stamp program where recipients were forced to go to govt run cafeterias and pantries to get their food, assigned to them by their zip code. If, instead, the govt simply gave money to food stamp recipients and they go to private businesses (current system), that isn’t adding any new spending, it’s rearranging where the money is going

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My understanding is that this merely changes where the money goes. The current system is that public school x gets y amount of money based on the amount of kids who go to the school. The funding is guaranteed

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This could not be more incorrect.

Right now, the state pays $X per public school student (paid to the public school systems) and $0 per private school student (ignoring the few vouchers the state pays for).

Every time a family decides to put their kids in a private school, the state saves money, by not having to fund anything for that student.

Now, those same familes are going to have their hand out, and want a payment. So the state currently is paying $0 for that child, and now will need to pay $6K for that child (or whatever the amount turns out to be).

Now, if public school students switched to private school, then for those students, what you are saying is correct. But, remember, anytime the government subsidizes something, the cost goes up. So what you will likely see is private schools increase their tution costs, and this won't actually save parents any money. Because of this, I think you will see very few public school students switch to private school.

So we are back to... the kids who have always been in private school, now their parents are getting money from the state.

So this actually is new spending... and potentially, a whole lot of it. Remember, LA has the highest perentage of kids in private schools of any state.

I can 100 percent promise you the archdiocese of new orleans, etc, will jack up tuition prices by $6K and tell parents to go get the money from the state.

Edit to add: there is a philosophical argument that the state has a financial incentive to push families to private schools, and that such incentive is BS. Thus, the state should be funding all kids education, including private school kids. From a philosophical argument point of view, I understand completely.

But the reality on the ground is that it doesn't work that way.

Maybe in a state in which 99% plus of students attend public schools, this works.

According to the state, tens of thousands of students are currently in non-public schools Let's assume it is 20,000 students... times say $6K a student, that's 120 Million a year in new spending.

But I feel like it is a lot higher. THe last number I could find just for the archdiocese of new orleabs was for 2018-2019 where it was about 35,000 students. That number may have gone down since and it incldues some vouchers. But that's also just one metro area.