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Where education reform is heading: From extreme to extremum
- 12-14-2010
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
If you want to understand where public education reform is heading, look south and east to Florida, where the governor-elect, Rick Scott, is talking about a new funding student formula that is more likely to destroy the public school system than accomplish anything else. Scott wants to expand a voucher program that allows low-income and disabled students to use public money to go to private schools to ALL students. Here’s how it would work, according to a preliminary plan: Vouchers, euphemistically termed “education savings accounts,” would be created and the state would deposit public education funds into them for each eligible students. Parents would shop for the school they like -- public or private -- and help pay for it with 85 percent of the state’s per-student funding figure -- which this year is $6,843. State public education money would no longer flow through a public education system. The idea may well be the most radical public education idea any state has ever considered, as the St. Petersburg Time noted. (more…)
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