'We believe Mayes was right to raise the alarm about potential negative effects for the children of parents who elect to use the voucher system.'
And under the latest iteration of the oft-expanded program, parents of any of the 1.1 million public-school students in the state may instead use the expanded “empowerment scholarship accounts” to divert the money public schools spend on their children to private schools of their choosing.
People are also reading… She also mentioned federal laws that guarantee students with disabilities a free and appropriate education, and laws that guarantee parents access to their children’s educational records, do not apply to private-school students. Horne called Mayes’ warning “nonsense,” and, even while admitting that private schools do not have to admit students with special needs, said that once such students are admitted, the schools are making the commitment to serve their needs. And he added that “parents are the judges of whether a school is doing an appropriate job” and that parents would always be free to move their children to different private schools.
We are reminded of famed anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist , who famously said, “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”
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