“Vouchers violate the American ideal of democracy because they transfer educational decisions from the public domain (school boards and elections) to private management companies & organizations. The voucher system promises to segregate students by class, ethnicity, and ability level while socially ostracizing individual students based on their ethnicities & identities. Private organizations often prioritize profits over learning, using public tax dollars to hire inexperienced teachers, and pocketing the difference. Vouchers for ENTIRELY private schools would decrease public accountability and create a wall between the public and the education sector, thereby diminishing democracy and the role of education as a public good;" writes Frank Adamson of Stanford University. He also says: “The best way to stop Trump’s plan to privatize public schools is to say no to vouchers, .”
At dianeravitch.net
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