The very out-of-state voucher lobbyists that are peddling bills to funnel your child’s Mississippi public school dollars into private academies and for-profit schools just had a set-back in Tennessee. When they tried their tricks in the Volunteer State, Tennessee moms and dads weren’t having it – and their legislators listened. Now it’s our turn, Mississippi! The same lobbyists that funded […]
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This year, the education legislation being filed is unprecedented in its hostility toward public schools, despite a clear message from voters that they want public education to flourish. Below is a sampling of the troublesome bills that are online thus far.They include proposals to: decrease funding to public schools and create a tax-paid system of private, for-profit, and virtual schools
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Parents are outraged that legislators are pushing school choice policies that will leave Mississippi children to fend for themselves in a system where schools get to choose which students to educate. Hear Tupelo moms Kate Farabaugh and Vonda Burroughs explain that the real message of school choice is you’re on your own. Our state Legislature has an obligation
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“Don’t we want ALL of our children to grow up to be productive members of society?” Listen as Pascagoula mom Myya Robinson urges legislators to support all Mississippi students, not just a chosen few. While state leaders and legislators have claimed that they can’t afford to provide adequate funding to public schools, some are now beating the
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Hear Ridgeland mom Jan Richardson explain how vouchers will allow private schools to “shop” for students with our tax dollars. When it comes to school choice, parents don’t get to choose, the private schools do. Private schools admit the children who are a good fit for their schools and deny admission to those who aren’t. While private
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The Parents’ Campaign agrees with our state constitution: our public tax dollars should support an education system that welcomes all children. Funding schools that refuse to educate some students is not an appropriate use of public dollars. The Lie of School Choice When it comes to school choice (vouchers for private school tuition), it isn’t
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Vouchers use public tax dollars to pay tuition at private schools, reducing the dollars that are available to fund public schools. Wendy Rogers of Wiggins, Mississippi, tells us here how the ESA voucher program hurts the more than 50,000 children with special needs who are being educated in public schools. Public tax dollars are intended for the public
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School choice may sound good on the surface, but, as this mom warns, it’s really “a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” Hear Robin Boswell of Ocean Springs explain it here. How has the private school “choice” voucher program worked for our neighbor, Louisiana? Despite cherry-picking their students, Louisiana private schools’ voucher students lost ground in math, reading, science, and social studies and
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When the facts are inconvenient, the “school choice” crowd makes up its own. A promotional piece placed on legislators’ desks by a private school group pushing tax credit scholarships (vouchers) is filled with false and misleading information. The real facts are here. In states with voucher programs, voucher students in private schools perform about the same
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