President Trump is expected to unveil a federal voucher scheme to fund religious schools during his State of the Union this evening. The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling on legislators to oppose this troubling public subsidy of religious education.
The proposal could divert up to $5 billion in tax revenue each year toward private school vouchers. Corporations and individuals would receive a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for transferring money to “scholarship organizations,” which would turn around and provide the funds to private schools. A bill sponsored by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is the model for the proposal. This is a back-door means of funding religious schools with federal subsidies.
Private school voucher schemes overwhelmingly benefit religious schools. While 90 percent of students in the United States attend public schools, most private schools are religious, and religious schools dominate voucher programs. In Wisconsin, for instance, 99 percent of the schools participating in the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program are religious. Religious schools also dominate recent voucher programs in other states, such as Indiana and North Carolina.
Private school voucher schemes overwhelmingly benefit religious schools. While 90 percent of students in the United States attend public schools, most private schools are religious, and religious schools dominate voucher programs. In Wisconsin, for instance, 99 percent of the schools participating in the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program are religious. Religious schools also dominate recent voucher programs in other states, such as Indiana and North Carolina.
A cornerstone of education in the United States has been our “common schools” — free, publicly supported schools open to all children regardless of their individual characteristics, such as religion. Voucher programs foster religiously segregated schools and fund schools that may discriminate against families on the basis of religion or LGBTQ status, inculcate creationism at taxpayer expense, and may not meet academic benchmarks, or even basic safety and health standards.
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One of the bedrocks of our successful Democratic framework is the idea of the open, 100% available public school. Theoretically, every single child in the nation, as a right of citizenship, gets a basic 12 year education. Every single one, no matter their family, money, religion, status. There, mixed with every element of their local society, they learn the basics of reading, writing, competing, co-existing and dreaming. developing life goals. No one is segregated because of ethnicity, race, income. That's the plan and it largely works, with a number of glaring failures if course.
Gaming the system, so parents can avoid taxes going to public schools and instead put their money into private religious schools is the new black. Most of them are parochial and Christian to the core. They teach separatism in the guise of love. Idiot anti-science nonsense and impregnate children with the tenet that "their" beliefs are true & good, while those thinking differently are evil & doomed.
We are stronger and better without the unconstitutional diversion of tax dollars to religious schools. Any religious school. Better we all fight for better success in public education.
One of the bedrocks of our successful Democratic framework is the idea of the open, 100% available public school. Theoretically, every single child in the nation, as a right of citizenship, gets a basic 12 year education. Every single one, no matter their family, money, religion, status. There, mixed with every element of their local society, they learn the basics of reading, writing, competing, co-existing and dreaming. developing life goals. No one is segregated because of ethnicity, race, income. That's the plan and it largely works, with a number of glaring failures if course.
Gaming the system, so parents can avoid taxes going to public schools and instead put their money into private religious schools is the new black. Most of them are parochial and Christian to the core. They teach separatism in the guise of love. Idiot anti-science nonsense and impregnate children with the tenet that "their" beliefs are true & good, while those thinking differently are evil & doomed.
We are stronger and better without the unconstitutional diversion of tax dollars to religious schools. Any religious school. Better we all fight for better success in public education.
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