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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Across the U.S. and in Mississippi, voucher programs have been a failure and a massive waste of taxpayer dollars. Nationally, research shows that children receiving vouchers to attend private schools perform no better than, and often worse than, their peers in public schools while diminishing resources for children being educated in public schools. The net
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The American Federation for Children turned its attention to Mississippi after successfully bankrolling the wins of privatization candidates in state legislatures in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennesse, and Wisconsin in 2014. Not limiting its PAC money to legislative races, AFC has also spread its influence to judicial and local school board campaigns in
Last week, Governor Bryant signed SB 2695, the voucher bill that allows taxpayer dollars to be used to pay tuition for children with special needs to attend private academies and for-profit schools. The voucher schools are not required to admit all students who apply and are not required to provide special education services to the
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When you pray, move your feet. It’s an old proverb that is among my favorites. Sometimes, the answer to a heartfelt prayer comes in a call to get up and do something – to be the vessel, the hands and feet, through which important works are done. Mississippi parents are answering that call. They are moving their feet
Down to the Wire: Privatization Votes Coming in House and Senate Read More »
We need your help again! Vouchers are still very much in play. A voucher bill that would send $6,500 per student to private schools is slated for a vote by the full House. Click here to see an analysis of the bill. Legislators whose ultimate goal is to privatize our public schools are still pushing their plan to hand debit
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Legislators have gone home for the weekend, and they need to hear from you. Here’s the good news… None of the troublesome bills we told you about earlier in the week have been debated as of yet, so there is still time to influence your legislators’ votes. The even better news is that word is
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Several bills being proposed in the 2015 Legislative Session open Mississippi’s doors to privatization of public schools. Tell your legislators to examine every bill carefully and to vote NO on any measure that allows state funds to pay or offset the cost of tuition at a private, for-profit, or virtual school. HB 394 and SB 2695
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