Saving Money With School Choice

[ACCT]

Any school choice program can be designed to save states and taxpayers money. What is not usually understood is that schoold choice also can be fiscally beneficial to school districts. Specifically, school choice programs can allow districts to retain funding for fixed costs so as not to harm the fiscal health of public schools or decrease resources available to students who remain in public schools.

In Wisconsin, a state-mandated analysis of Milwaukee’s school voucher program found it saved $46.7 million in 2010 and $51.9 million in 2011. Florida’s Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability found that its state’s tax-credit scholarship program found it saved nearly $40 million in one year alone.

School choice saves money! (The average spending per public school student in the United States was $12,450 in 2008-2009.)

 

[Cristiano]

I guess that I am not very good at saving money when it comes to school. I pay a lot of property taxes for the public school system and then on top of that I pay a lot of money for catholic school.

 

[ACCT]

I guess that I am not very good at saving money when it comes to school. I pay a lot of property taxes for the public school system and then on top of that I pay a lot of money for catholic school.

Financial cost. “…(There is) present discrimination against parents who send their children to nonpublic schools. Universal vouchers would end the inequity of using tax funds to school some children but not others.”

 

[davidmlamb]

Any school choice program can be designed to save states and taxpayers money. What is not usually understood is that schoold choice also can be fiscally beneficial to school districts. Specifically, school choice programs can allow districts to retain funding for fixed costs so as not to harm the fiscal health of public schools or decrease resources available to students who remain in public schools.

In Wisconsin, a state-mandated analysis of Milwaukee’s school voucher program found it saved $46.7 million in 2010 and $51.9 million in 2011. Florida’s Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability found that its state’s tax-credit scholarship program found it saved nearly $40 million in one year alone.

School choice saves money! (The average spending per public school student in the United States was $12,450 in 2008-2009.)

School Voucher’s do not gaurantee that the Voucher will be payment in full for school tuition. In order for this to be a successful program the voucher must meet the full payment of the tuition costs or have a means test to waive the remainding costs.

Just because tax payers are saving TAX DOLLARS does not mean they are saving money from family budgets. In most cases for working class families the cost of paying for K-12 grade education may become unafordable or much more “taxing” on the family budget. For instance, if a family is paying 1000 dollars a year in property tax which goes towards public education but then still has to shell out an additional 3000 dollars in tuition what benefit is it then to the family with a household income of lets say 40K a year that cannot absord an additional 3000 dollar cost for tuition?

Peace,
David

 

[Erich]

In 1984, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that if even one student at an institution received a federal grant or loan, it made that institution a direct recipient of federal funds – and therefore subject to federal mandates/regulations/oversight.

If the HHS mandate shows us anything, it shows us we don’t want such federal mandates/regulations/oversight. The ridiculous nature of the HHS mandate would have treated Mother Teresa’s AIDS hospice in Washington, DC as unqualified for a religious exemption!